The word
Man, the name of the Man is a strange name. As it says in the Posuk 16:15 (מָן הוּא--כִּי לֹא יָדְעוּ, מַה-הוּא). The Rashbam explains (של מה ולפי שהוא לשון מצרי ובאותו לשון היו רגילין שהוא כמו מה) that Man in the language of the Egyptians
is the same as the word Mah in Hebrew. Mah as in what is this? The Torah gave
the word Man because the Jews called it Man. That is strange. Why refer to the
Man with the name that has no intrinsic meaning, no meaning on its own. Man
what is this? So you give it the name Man.
To
answer let me share with you an idea that is found in the Sichos Mussar from
5733 the 6th Sichah. There is a Posuk in Yechezkel 46:9 which
teaches us that in the Beis Hamikdash there was a rule. The rule was (הַבָּא דֶּרֶךְ-שַׁעַר צָפוֹן
לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֹת יֵצֵא דֶּרֶךְ-שַׁעַר נֶגֶב, וְהַבָּא דֶּרֶךְ-שַׁעַר נֶגֶב
יֵצֵא דֶּרֶךְ-שַׁעַר צָפוֹנָה: לֹא יָשׁוּב, דֶּרֶךְ הַשַּׁעַר אֲשֶׁר-בָּא
בוֹ--כִּי נִכְחוֹ, יצאו (יֵצֵא).).
If someone entered the Beis Hamikdash with one gate of the many gates he would
have to go out with a different gate. This is found in the Haftorah of Parshas
Hachodesh.
Rav
Chaim Shmuelevitz explained that when one entered the Beis Hamikdash he would
feel the awe of the place. It would be a tremendous feeling that overcame him,
a sense of holiness and majesty of the place that he entered. It is important
that that initial sense not go away and disappear. Although a human being is a
human being and gets used to anything. Even if someone is in an awesome situation
and setting, eventually if he is there long enough it loses that very special
sense. The symbolism of not going out through the gate which you entered in the
Beis Hamikdash was symbolic of the fact that it should not undue that which
happened when we entered. We entered the Beis Hamikdash and the individual who
entered felt overcome by awe. Don’t walk out that entrance.
In the
words of Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz (translated into English). A person has to work on
maintaining his first Hisorerus his first inspiration, a feeling that a person
has. If at the Siyum Hashas a person is moved to learn Shas he has to keep that
original inspiration and he will be able to keep it going. Many many people
lose it, but keeping that inspiration is a very important step in Avodas
Hashem.
We can
take that idea that Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz says and explain with that the naming
of the Man with the word Man. When the Man fell people were amazed. Man Hu,
what is this, food coming down from heaven? Food that has this unbelievable
property of being able to have any taste that a person desires. It is
incredible. Of course, with time, one gets used to anything. To the Dor
Hamidbar the Man falling every single day was the same thing as water which
falls from heaven in the form of rain, which is something we see as ordinary
and not miraculous. In order to get that Hisorerus they named it Man. To remind
themselves of the original amazement, the awe, the fact that it was such an
incredible miracle. To keep that Hisorerus the name Man remained.
Of
course the message is important for us. To try to keep the feeling of a
Hisorerus that we get sometimes when something happens in our lives or sometimes
when we are inspired by another individual. To try to keep it, to watch it. To
have some sort of a reminder whether in a name or in an object to remind us of
our original Hisorerus.
Rav
Chaim Shmulevitz says as well that Palti Ben Laiyish used this tool. Chazal
tell us that after Michal was married to Dovid, Shaul declared the marriage invalid
and gave her instead to Palti Ben Laiyish. Naturally, Palti knew that she was
an Aishes Ish and that he was not permitted to touch her. Shaul the king
insisted that they were married, so Palti couldn’t show publicly that they were
not married. So they lived in the same home and they had a bedroom, but the
Gemara says in Maseches Sanhedrin 19b (6 lines from the bottom) says (כתיב פלטי וכתיב פלטיאל אמר ר'יוחנן פלטי שמו ולמה נקרא שמו
פלטיאל שפלטו אל מן העבירה מה עשה נעץ חרב בינו לבינה אמר כל העוסק בדבר זה ידקר
בחרב זה) that he stuck a
sword between the 2 beds and said if I touch her I deserve to be destroyed by
the sword. Rav Chaim Shmulevitz asks what is the purpose of the sword, the day
he pulled out the sword it meant something, however, he left it there between
the two beds for a number of years. What does that do?
The answer is the same idea. He had a Hisorerus
and he wanted to concretize it on something, so he put in a sword in between
the two beds and the sword was a reminder of the original Hisoreus. If you have
a Hisorerus for something, do it and make it happen. So that is our Vort on the
Man.
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