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The Night Before

The night before we heard G-d's voice, it says that Moshe Rabbeinu went to every Jewish house and took them himself to Mt Sinai.

If we knew the schedule, why did Moshe Rabbeinu have to go to every   Rhouse?  The answer is from the holy Alexanderer. The Hole Rebbe of Alexander says that when you’re a pupil of Moshe Rabbeinu, you suddenly see how beautiful everyone else is.

Let me ask you, what is the first sign of a slave? When a slave is called upon for a task he says 'I believe I can do it’ or ‘It doesn’t seem that I’ll be able to do it'. Exile is to measure. I can do this much, but this much I cannot do. You know what a free person is? Freedom does not mean that I say to myself 'I can do what I want to', its so much deeper than that. When I am free.... whatever I do, I don't measure, I don't measure at all. If someone calls me up and says 'can you do me a favor?', you don't say 'ah...I don't think I can do it, do you really need it?' A slave says 'do you really need me to do it, I don't think I can do it, are you sure?' So you say 'forget it, I'll get someone else'. Then there are mamesh holy people, holy free people. When you ask them for a favor they say 'I don't know if I can do it but who cares, I will do it'.
 
When G-d says to Moshe 'bring down the Torah from heaven', he didn't measure and calculate. Moshe Rabbeinu doesn't begin to check and see if he is capable of doing what G-d asked him to do because we were already out of Egypt, we were out of slavery.

This is the holiness of Moshe Rabbeinu, the hoiness of a leader who became free, and this was the last lesson he had to instill within us yiddelach before receving the Torah. Becoming free happens when I am free to think that everyone around me is kodesh kodashim (holy of holies), even myself, and unless you learn this - don’t bother coming to Mt Sinai.

I hate to say bad things, imagine we would know that next week at dawn we broadcast from the Lord and all the holy people are invited. Everybody will push themselves through and think, 'well, of course I should be there'. Then we get there, and when we see another person that we know, we think to ourselves 'The chutzpah! What’s he doing here, I mean only holy people are invited! What’s he doing here, I know him for so long, he doesn’t belong there'.

You know what happened on Mt Sinai? The most unbelievable thing. Every family thought to themselves 'I’m sure we are not meant to be here, but our neighbors? Oh, they are so holy, they are so special'.  Freedom!

The most awesome thing was that everyone was convinced that the other one is meant to experience it, but not themselves. So Moshe Rabbeinu had to knock on every door, telling every family 'you thought you are not wanted, you thought it is only everyone else who is on the level. Don't you see, these are the thoughts which mamesh bring you to Mount Sinai'.

Can you imagine what a holy community was standing at Mt Sinai? Everybody thinking somebody else is so good.
Someday, someday it will be like this again, hopefully.
What a world.

And Mashiach will whisper and say – ‘until you know you are part of the holiness, I can’t come and redeem you’.
Let it be now!

Good Shabbos!