We should wonder at how some people are so blind that they cannot see and fail to believe in just how lofty we will all be in the future. Here, the pasuk says explicitly that Hashem made a covenant (bris) in which He promised to give Avrohom and his descendants the ten nations, and to date only seven nations have been delivered to us. That leaves three nations that Hashem promised but has not yet delivered. These people are like dry bones; how can they cry out that we have lost hope of our inheritance, when Hashem’s oath and promise [in this pasuk] clearly contradicts them? Not to mention how even the seven nations are not fully ours, and through our sins the slaves and servants now rule over their masters and we are subjugated to them.
Hashem did this to hint to us, midda kenegged midda (“measure for measure”), just as we are supposed to be Avdei Hashem – Hashem’s servants – and we fail to fulfill our duties, and fail to subjugate ourselves to Hashem as we should, like a servant who rebels against his master, so now, in turn, are we like masters whose servants and slaves rule over them. Hashem still has His ways to fulfill His covenant.
Praises for the Ohr HaChaim HaKodosh
Rav Leib Sora’s revealed to his followers that the holy soul of the mechaber of the Ohr HaChaim HaKodosh was the soul of Rav Moshe Cordovero, the Ramak of Tzefas, which was in turn the soul of the Tanna, Rav Akiva ben Yosef.
This holy, pure soul returned to this earth to enlighten the world and its inhabitants through the holy sefer he would author, the Ohr HaChaim HaKodosh, which sets Jewish souls aflame!
Indeed, Klal Yisrael has only applied the designation Kodosh – “holy” to four figures: the Ohr HaChaim HaKodosh, the Alshich HaKodosh, the Ari HaKodosh and the Shela HaKodosh.
Gedolim Be'misasm Yoser
