Rav Moshe Weinberger still holds tight to his father’s tefillin and simple faith
Photos: Naftoli Goldgrab, Family archives
One Shabbos about a year ago, I joined Seudah Shlishis at Yeshiva Ateres Shimon in Far Rockaway, an extraordinary place bursting with young men who maybe didn’t have an easy time of it, who’d fallen or been nudged out of the system. The yeshivah has welcomed them, reassured them, restored them, and there, in a darkened room, the Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Mordechai Yehuda Groner, was speaking to the boys lining both sides of a long table.
He was talking about the eternity of the neshamah, of its essential purity, and he suddenly cried out, “You guys saw the tefillin. You saw them. You know that those are your tefillin too.”
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Two prophetic visions from the latter prophets are forever linked liturgically with the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. In Parshat Yitro, we read Isaiah’s vision of the divine throne room where the angels proclaim God’s glory: “Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh – Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Host” (6:3), while on Shavuot which again shares the same Torah reading, we read of Ezekiel’s vision of the divine chariot where the angels again proclaim God’s glory with the words: “Blessed be the Presence of the Lord in His place”. (Ezekiel 3:12) These angelic responses were considered so magisterial that they were enshrined in the Kiddusha (holiness) section of the Amidah, where w
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And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. . . . And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Eternal caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. (Exodus 14:16, 21)
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By Rabbi Yossi Goldin | January 28, 2021
Author’s note: I am blessed to have been a parent for the past 13 years. I have found that over the years, as I continue to delve into the parsha each week, my experience as a parent has given me a new perspective on how I view the stories and lessons in the Torah. Repeatedly, ideas about parenting have emerged for me from familiar text ideas that I have found meaningful and useful in practical ways.
I’m excited to share some of these ideas to encourage us all to think about how we parent, and how we can improve as parents. I encourage others to join the conversation and share reflections and feedback!