Parshas Haazinu 5777
QUESTION:
What ness is it that when people came to Yerushalayim nobody ever complained that he didn't have any space, it was too crowded for him in Yerushalayim?
ANSWER:
When you come into a place, into a yeshiva, and you have to hear the shiur, and you're sitting on a seat or you're standing and you're crowded together, so let's say you are somewhat bored by the shiur and you're waiting for it to be over. You're looking at the clock all the time, so you feel hemmed in, you'd like some wide open spaces, the truth is you'd like to be outside too, still wider open spaces, but inside you're looking for excuses to be dissatisfied.
But l'havdil elef havdolos, when people go to a movie nobody complains that it's crowded, you pay money to be packed in. Why don't they complain? The answer is, they want to be packed in, they like it.
In Yerushalayim it was a ness, people had such an ahava for avodas Hashem, it was a ness, don't think it was not a ness, it was a big ness. Lo omar adam, nobody ever complained in Yerushalayim. Now that's something to talk about, it's not derech hateva, it was a ness. In addition to that, there was a remarkable thing. In Yerushalayim people discovered there always was space. Hakadosh Baruch Hu opened up their eyes and they saw space, there is space always. In those days when people were eager, they found space. In Yerushalayim they always found space. First of all people wanted the avodas Hashem, it never was too small for them, secondly they discovered space, there was space in Yerushalayim.
Third, another ness, Hakadosh Baruch Hu says ha'boh li'taheir mi'sayin lo, when people are jammed together, let's say a few million people were jammed in the streets of Yerushalayim, and now they see from the distance another million are marching on all the roads and singing and coming to Yerushalayim. Where will they come in, there's no place to come in!? Did anybody say, no more, you have to close the gates? No! They kept on crowding and crowding and they all came in. It's a remarkable thing, they all came in. That was already a third ness; how it happened I can't explain. So now I'll repeat the three nissim.
First ness is, nobody ever complained, because they wanted to see the avodas Hashem. We should see the kohanim serving Hashem bi'yirah, that was a great thing, li'maan tilmad li'yirah es Hashem, you should learn how to fear Hashem.
Secondly, when you're interested you'll find place, there's plenty of place in Yerushalayim.
Thirdly, even when they were jammed in and there was no more place, another throng entered and nisei nissim, nobody had to remain outside.
Good Shabbos To All
This is transcribed from questions that were posed to Harav Miller by the audience at the Thursday night lectures.
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