Without a Minyan One Cannot be a ק“צדי
מלאה כי לפני בא בשר כל קץ לנח אלקים ויאמר” ו) “הארץ את משחיתם והנני מפניהם חמס הארץ (יג
Harav Chaim Yerucham Lantz, a talmid of the Daas Kedoshim of Butchatch, explained:
The Ramak cites the Zohar (Siddur Tefillah LeMoshe Shaar 4 Siman 3) that the quotas of holy things alluded to in the word צדיק– are צ amens, ד’ Kedushos, י Kaddish and ק brachos. He wrote that “one who does these is undoubtedly a tzaddik.” Noach, who was called “ish tzaddik” (6:9) surely adhered to the quotas alluded to in ק“צדי. Therefore, when Hashem told him about the mabul, He said: “קץ kol basar ba Lefanai” – from the time of the destruction of “all flesh” in the mabul, he would only be able to be strict about ץ“ ק– the 100 brachos and the 90 amens, because he would not be able to fulfill the four Kedushos and 10 Kaddish as a minyan is needed. After the mabul only he and his sons would remain. Indeed, after Noach emerged from the teviah, the passuk no longer calls him a tzaddik, as it says (7:23): “Vayisha’er ach Noach,” because he could not be strict about the holy things alluded to in the word ק“צדי.
Divrei Chaim
Make Birchos Hanehenin Out Loud
אליך ואספת יאכל אשר מאכל מכל לך קח ואתה” (כא ו) “לאכלה ולהם לך והיה
Some explain a remez from this passuk to the obligation of reciting Birchos Hanehenin aloud:
“ואתה קח לך” – is an acronym for מכל מאכל אשר יאכל The words .קול are an acronym that is numerically equivalent to אמן. So before eating “kol ma’achal” one should make a brachah aloud so that those around him answer amen with kavanah to his brachah.
Kerem D”L
Rains in the Merit of Answering Amen
הגשם ויכלא השמים וארבת תהום מעינת ויסכרו” (ב ח) “השמים מן
The dorshei reshumos alluded in this passuk:
– the acronym ”ויכלא הגשם מן השמים“ of the final letters is מאמן to allude that the rains come “from amen” – in the merit of answering amen, as Chazal say (Taanis 8a): “Rains only fall for the baalei amanah.”
Shmeinah Lachmo
