Everybody knows redemption has many phases to it, the redemption of the body and the redemption of the soul when the Jewish nation left Egypt.
0ur bodies left Egypt. But Egypt still didn’t leave us. And that slave mentality still lingered inside of us. During these seven weeks we count every single day with excitement and anticipation of receiving the Torah. But we also realize there’s a lot of work. There’s a lot of impurity that stuck to the Jewish nation as a result of 210 years of bondage.
And eventually we reach that 50th day, where God opens up all the great lights of heaven, and he gives us a great kiss of the Torah the great spiritual gift of neshama of soul.
This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, 81st year from the Holocaust, of seeing that valley of dry bones of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, and all the gas chambers and all the suffering the Jewish nation went through.
This Shabbat we read about isha ki tazria v’yalda zachar, the woman who gives birth to a male or female, and different laws of purity and impurity.
The Zohar Kadosh writes that this represents the Jewish nation, the isha that one day will give birth, and one day after all the impurities they went through will come back to life and give birth to a beautiful child — the Jewish nation and the Jewish State of Israel.
Yes, at times, this state of impurity feels like only our body came back to the land but this soul is still lacking. But we hope this Shabbat that Hashem will bring back to life עצמות יבשות — the dry bones and from that valley the prophet Ezekiel describes our dry bones will come back to real life both physically and spiritually, and we’ll be able to enter not just Mount Sinai but the Holy Temple, and be able to give that great sacrifice to Hashem in the merit of all the pain and the tears of the 6 million God should continue to open up gates for us and bring us back to the Holy Land to see victory of all those who want to wipe us out.
Shabbat shalom.
