Parshas Beha'aloscha: Tekiah and Teruah of the Chatzotzros

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why were the chatzotzros blown with a tekiah for gathering and a teruah for travel and war? Rav Tzadok HaKohen sees the straight tekiah as arrival and simcha, and the broken teruah as the hard road. Avodas Hashem is six days of work toward a madreiga, then Shabbos to savor it and lock it in. The 42 journeys of Parshas Masei, matched to the 42-letter name in Ana B'choach, follow the same pattern.

Key points

• For Rav Tzadok HaKohen, the straight tekiah marks gathering and simcha, the broken teruah travel and tzara.
• The Gemara has three tekiyos blown Erev Shabbos, and Rav Tzadok sees Shabbos as arrival, not avodah.
• In a footnote to Rav Tzadok, Ana B'choach after the six mizmorim marks the 42 journeys before Shabbos.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The fast of the 20th of Sivan
2. 1:39Rav Tzadok on the chatzotzros
3. 5:24Avodas Hashem as travel and arrival
4. 9:08Tekiyos on Erev Shabbos
5. 9:59The 42 masaos and Ana B'choach
6. 12:49Magen Avraham on reading Masei
7. 13:45Holding on to a kabbalah over Shabbos
8. 14:54A footnote on Kabbalas Shabbos

Topics

• Chatzotzros
• Avodas Hashem
• Shabbos
• Ana b'Choach