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Bechukosai - Exile and the Fragmented Self
At the end of the Tochacha, Rashi makes a mysterious comment: Yaakov Avinu “took” the letter Vav from Eliyahu HaNavi as collateral to guarantee that Eliyahu will one day come announce the Geulah. But what does it mean to take a letter as security? And why specifically the letter Vav?
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explores the deeper meaning of the letter Vav as the symbol of connection, integration, and wholeness. The deepest pain of Galus is not merely suffering, it is fragmentation. The splitting of mind and heart. The loss of inner continuity. The feeling that life is…
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