Deep roots

וְזָכַרְתִּי אֶת בְּרִיתִי יַעֲקוֹב וְאַף אֶת בְּרִיתִי יִצְחָק וְאַף אֶת בְּרִיתִי אַבְרָהָם אֶזְכֹּר וְהָאָרֶץ אֶזְכֹּר,

“I will remember My compact with Yaacov and also My compact with Yitzchak; we will also remember My compact with Avraham and we will remember a Land”.

The Parasha starts with 9 psukim (verses) of prerogative if we select to conform Hashem. Following this, there is an extended gain of curses if we select not to. The pasuk above is quoted within these pesukim of curses. How is Hashem remembering a compact of a fathers and a Land a bad thing? Some commentators have explained that this is indeed expressing a problem. It would be one thing if a republic sins, though for a republic that descended from Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaacov, that has such a clever bond with a holy Land of Israel – it is distant worse.

However, given this pasuk is partial of davening on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and is mentioned in a certain form in sequence to incite Hashem’s memory and therefore His mercy, it seems some-more expected to perspective this pasuk as an island of wish within despair. According to this bargain we have a pasuk of nechama (comfort) ‘planted’ into a curses. Surely a curses would have a stronger outcome if we were not comforted in a center of them. Why afterwards is a nechama mentioned here?

I once listened about a male who was private from his home during a Disengagement. He was certain that he would be as clever as he always was and that he would not turn romantic as a army came in to their settlement. And nonetheless he found himself weeping. To this he said: ‘when we dig a tree, a low roots are revealed, that we would not have famous otherwise’.

So too here, when Hashem smites us with all a horrific curses that are mentioned in a Parasha, a low and well-rooted bond with Hashem is afterwards revealed. It is afterwards that we might realize that regardless of a deeds and their rewards or punishments, we as a people are strongly connected to Hashem. We have a bond that goes as distant behind as a republic does and it is this bond that began in a times of Avraham and Sarah that has always been there.

Both during a good moments in a story and during a bad as well, this bond will perpetually accompany us as a nation.

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