Shalom my friends, this is Simcha Hochbaum of Hebron standing outside the Maarat HaMachpela.
This Shabbat the Torah goes into great detail describing the holiday season for the Jewish nation and every single great Yom Tov and the special mitzvah we have to do and perform for that particular holiday. But there’s a new holiday that’s created this week.
This week in the counting of the Omer, we’re in the week of Netzach.
Netzach means victory. Netzach means eternity. Netzach means some time to stand up and to challenge the authority, to challenge the establishment and to demand something that you believe is right.
Fighting for your rights. Fighting for your existence. Fighting for the right to be the eternal people and nation.
This Shabbat the Jewish nation approaches Moshe Rabeinu and they demand the right for a new holiday. This holiday is called Pesach Sheini that we commemorate this Friday.
The Jewish nation in the desert was carrying the bones of Yosef HaTzadik and the bones of Aharon’s children Nadav and Abihu, and as a result they were defiled.
But yet, even though they had a great excuse why they couldn’t bring the first Paschal offering, they still felt they’d lost out.
And they cried out, why should I lose out? We’re begging, looking for a second opportunity for a second chance. We want to be able to rectify and fix that which we couldn’t do.
Because the Jewish nation challenged and used attribute of Netzach, Moshe Rabeinu asked Hashem, what should I do? And God says, create for them a new Yom Tov, a new holiday.
When the Jewish people really want something, when we use the attribute of Netzach in the right way, God sends us tremendous, tremendous victory.
And Be’ezrat Hashem on a national level also, we should reawaken ourselves and be able to have that arousal with the attribute of Netzach, of victory and the eternal nation should be victorious over the enemies, both from within and from without.
A happy Pesach Sheini, Shabbat shalom.
