20^th of Tishrei, October 8, 2009

“Open for me the gates of righteousness, I will enter them and thank Hashem.  This is the gate of Hashem, the righteousness shall enter through it (Psalm 118:19-20).”   The psalmist begins by speaking of  “gates” in the plural, and closes by referring to “gate” in the singular.  Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Shlita, explains that there was one gate in the Beit HaMikdash through which no one but G-D could enter.   “Hashem said to me: “This gate shall be closed; it shall not be opened, because Hashem, the G-D of Israel, has come through it; it shall be closed (Yechezkel 44:2).”   This verse teaches that in Heaven, there too exists a gate through which only G-D is permitted to enter.

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