[Avodah] har sinai

[Shlomo Pick]

Last shabbos was the yahrzeit of the last radziner rebbe before the war, and he
died al Kiddush hashem during the war.  I was at the yahrzeit tisch with the
present day rebbe here in bnei brak and he said over some torah from the
father of the rebbe hy"d. Among the things he said was why does the Torah
relate that bnei yisrael camp kenneged hahar, I should have said al yad,
eitzel or tachat hahar. He answered that in the desert when one camps he
camps with his back towards the mountain, for the mountain offers protection
against the winds, sands, etc.  So why does it say keneged?  Because it
teaches that when klal yisrael came to Sinai, they were ready to turn their
backs towards the world, worldliness, and all that is comprised in olam
hazeh. They wanted ruchinyuss, and that was their message upon arriving at
Sinai.

If you accept this, then the author of this homily added one can understand
the verse in dayeinu.  The fact that God brought us to Sinai is sufficient
because it afforded us the opportunity to turn our backs on worldliness, and
seek ruchniysuss which was granted in the next verse of dayeinu.

and ein meshivin al haderush,

chag sameiach

shlomo
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