החתם ספר קורא לעלות להר הבית! | הרב אלישע וולפסון

My teachers and rabbis. >> Heaven. >> This Sabbath, we are privileged to read about the sublime event of the Binding of Isaac, which took place right here in front of us, just a few meters away. First of all, it is moving to think that we have the privilege of being here, in the place where the Holy One, blessed be He, says to Abraham "Go forth" to the land of Moriah, and later tells him "Go forth" again, right? In our text, it says "Take your son, Isaac , and go forth to the land of Moriah." Meaning, the call to a Jew, the call to the children of our forefather Abraham, is: "Go forth to the land of Moriah, go forth to the place that the Holy One, blessed be He, has chosen." But in truth, this place is a hidden place; therefore, in the Torah, it is mentioned as "the place that the Lord shall choose." You do not discover its location; even to our forefather Abraham, the Holy One, blessed be He, does not reveal it— "Go forth to the land that I will show you," He does not reveal it. Abraham had to strive very, very hard in order to discover the place, and what was the climax of that effort? The Binding of Isaac. The Binding of Isaac was the final test to merit discovering this holy and sublime place, which is actually the place through which the Holy One, blessed be He, dwells and is revealed in the world —the Foundation Stone upon which the world was established. And so, the moment Abraham truly merits that the Holy One, blessed be He, is revealed to him and tells him, of course, "Do not lay your hand upon the lad," and so on, Abraham actually discovers and achieves what he sought his whole life: Where is the Master of the Mansion? Where is the Master of the House? Where is the place of His glory on earth? And then? In this event, at the Binding of Isaac, he merits the phrase "Blessed be the glory of the Lord from His place." And in the words of our forefather Abraham: "And Abraham called the name of that place ' The Lord will see,' as it is said today , 'On the mount of the Lord, He shall be seen.'" Finally, I discovered that there is a place—in the entire galaxy , in the entire world, there is one unique, special place, a small mountain , a mountain that God desired for His abode, Mount Moriah, where the Holy One , blessed be He, is revealed in this holy place. This is how Rashi explains it here. "The Lord will see" is simple, as the translation says. The Lord will choose and show him this place to rest His Presence there and to offer sacrifices here. And this is what is said "today." Meaning, for generations, they will say "today." This day. On this day, the Holy One, blessed be He, is revealed to us and says, "On this mountain, I am revealed." Treat this mountain as you would treat the most precious and important place in the world. And indeed, the author here also says it this way; behold, these words are profound. Pardon me, it is the Hatam Sofer; the Hatam Sofer says that the verse "Today on the mount of the Lord, He shall be seen" is in the way the Sages said: The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses our teacher, peace be upon him, "Until you command Me regarding My children, command...""My children to Me, command the children of Israel and say to them: My offering, My bread for My fire, etc." Meaning, when the Holy One, blessed be He, comes to Moses our teacher—the Holy One, blessed be He, in prayers—the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses: " Command My children to Me that they should care for Me, that they should take care to offer Me sacrifices." And likewise, our father Abraham said, behold, our father Abraham, peace be upon him, prays: May the Lord look upon us with personal providence, and may the Holy One, blessed be He, do His part and reveal Himself to us without any concealment of face at all. And from now it shall be said today: Just as the Holy One, blessed be He, looks upon us with wonderful providence, so it shall be said today to Israel, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be seen, " that we should take care to attend to His service, to ascend to the Lord and to stand in His holy place. That is to say, the verse here says, "And he called the name of that place, The Lord will see." This is, as it were, the prayer of our father Abraham to the Holy One, blessed be He. "Hashem, we have found the place where You have revealed Yourself.""Reveal Yourself to us in the fullness of Your splendor and glory." The Holy One, blessed be He, says to him, our father Abraham, "That it may be said today, 'On the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.'""Do you know what it depends on for Me to reveal Myself to you here?""It depends on the fact that you, your seed, and your children will serve Me in this place, will ascend to this place, will serve Me on Mount Moriah, and then I will truly be seen in this holy place." This is what is told to us for generations. My brothers and friends, this is the weekly Torah portion, this is what the Holy One, blessed be He, is speaking to us about in these days, that the people of Israel who have returned to the Land of Israel and are making choices, we must choose the Holy One, blessed be He. "For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation." No! It is impossible for us to stand outside, to abandon the Temple Mount, the place of the Temple, Mount Moriah, which the Lord loves most . "The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob."" He desired it for His habitation!" So, happy are you, and happy are all who ascend to the Temple Mount and all who work for the redemption of the place of our Temple. May we merit that all may ascend here in holiness and purity, and may we merit that the Lord will look upon us with great mercy, and may this be His will, and let us say Amen.