<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">You will then have a vision of My back. My face, however, will not be seen. </span></font></span><span style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">[Shmos 33:17-23]</span></font></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><br></span></font></div><div><span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">In </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Brachos</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "> 7a, Rabbi Shimon Hasida explained that God revealed His <i>back</i> to Moses by showing him the knot of God's </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">tefillah shel rosh.</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "> </span></font></span></div><div><span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">An interesting symbolism is possible. The<i> tefillah shel yad</i> has one parchment in one compartment with the four different sections of the Torah. The <i>tefillah shel rosh</i> has the same four sections of the Torah but in separate parchments each in its own compartment. It has been explained that when it comes to action, symbolized by the <i>shel yad</i>, we must be unified. However, when it comes to thinking, we have a right to disagree and think individually. Therefore, when God showed Moses the knot of the <i>shel rosh</i>, it suggested that God has allowed us the freedom to think individually. Nevertheless, as the knot of the <i>shel rosh</i> is bound tightly, so too, we Jews, must stand together, tightly bound, in spite of our differences and disagreements and <i>NOT</i> be disagreeable. </span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">If we are able to achieve this, the chag of Purim will not allow our masks to deceive or disrespect each other, but rather enable us to give charitably as Purim mandates.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">ri</span></font></div></body></html>