[Avodah] Rav Levi Yitzchok of Berdichev - The Nes of Purim Paves the Way For A New Aleph Bais

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://revach.net/article.php?id=5217


The gemara (Sanhedrin 21b) says that originally the Torah was written 
in Ksav Ivri and only later in the time of Ezra HaSofer was the Torah 
given in Ksav Ashuris (our Ksav today). What is the significance of 
this change and why did it happen in the time of Ezra?

Rav Levi Yitzchok of Berdichev in Kedushas Levi says that the prelude 
to Ezra and the building of the second Bais HaMikdash was the Nes of 
Purim. Krias Megilas Esther was accepted by all of Klal Yisroel two 
years after the Nes, and in the next year the Bais HaMikdash was 
built. The reason for this, explains the Berdichever, is as follows.

The gemara says that after the Nes of Purim Bnei Yisroel accepted the 
Torah in a way that they hadn't accepted it at Har Sinai. At Har 
Sinai they recognized the power of Hashem to override Teva and do 
with it as He pleases breaking every and any rule. They did not 
recognize however Hashem also has the ability to work within Teva. 
Only after seeing Hashem manipulate politics and clearly 
orchestrating a series of happenstances in favor of Bnei Yisroel 
during the dark times of Haman, did they finally understand that all 
of what happens and all that we see, is not merely natural world 
order but rather Hashem's will and choreography, albeit in a hidden manner.

The Seforim say that Hashem created the world with the 22 letters of 
the Aleph Bais. This might seem beyond our comprehension initially, 
however we must understand that the Aleph Bais are not shapes but 
rather different manifestations of the power of Hashem. In Shamayim 
there are no shapes for the letters as no shape can hold the 
unlimited power of each letter. The shapes of the letters of Ksav 
Ashuris are depictions of these powers as they appear in this world 
of natural limitation.

After Purim with the acknowledgement of Hashem's power within every 
mundane substance and event, we were zocheh to receive the Aleph 
Bais, itself a worldly exterior to infinite power. The concept of the 
materialization of Hashem's presence in the world paved the way to 
the materialization of power of Hashem within the Aleph Bais.

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