tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7976081.post6404219636068035106..comments2024-03-15T10:36:55.634+02:00Comments on Bat Aliyah: Guest Post: The Not-So-Famous Famous Four-FifthsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7976081.post-21904031021941820702012-02-06T21:35:16.637+02:002012-02-06T21:35:16.637+02:00I am glad to read this post. I think it's ver...I am glad to read this post. I think it's very timely. I was rethinking the earlier posts about aliyah being a choice and realized that the 40 years b'midbar was a tikkun process. Yes. A tikkun process. <br /><br />In the weekday Shacharit service, right after seder hakarbanot we find a very interesting poem--the Ana Bekoach. In the synagogues I've prayed in in the U.S. it's usually glossed over or completely omitted, but it provides a very powerful and spiritual reminder for us.<br /><br />There are 42 words in the Ana Bekoach and the first letter of each word, 42 letters, is the 42 letter Name of Hashem. <br /><br />The Chafetz Chaim learns that each letter of the Ana Bekoach corresponds to one of the 42 "stops" in Yetziah M'Mitzrayim. Sefer Shem MiShmuel in Parshat Beshalach talks about the precise reason why these 42 encampments are relavent for us today. It provides us with our own daily reminder of leaving Mitzrayim and enables us to continue the spiritual purification every day.<br /><br />To digress a little, Rebbe Nachman says that we should all merit to walk 4 amot in Eretz Yisrael, and that the only reason to make aliyah is for spiritual reasons, that is, to work on our tikkun.<br /><br />In Mesechet Shabbat 104a we learn that if we come to purify ourselves HKB"H will help us.<br /><br />So, we learn that if our intent is to purify ourselves, to work on our tikkun, we will be helped in our aliyah process. This in no way means that it will be easy, but only that we will be helped.<br /><br />There is great depth in the Ana Bekoach that cannot be dealt with via the internet, but suffice it to say that great treasure awaits one who is committed to learning more about it and including it in their weekday Shacharit Service.<br /><br />There is a wonder 156 page color book, Sefer Parshat HaKetoret vMa'Aseh Hakorbanot, that includes Seder M"B (mem bet) Mesaot.Baruch Eliezerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15595524174770168969noreply@blogger.com