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<DIV>Last shabbos was the yahrzeit of the last radziner rebbe before the war,
and he<BR>died al Kiddush hashem during the war. I was at the yahrzeit
tisch with the<BR>present day rebbe here in bnei brak and he said over some
torah from the<BR>father of the rebbe hy&quot;d. Among the things he said
was why does the Torah<BR>relate that bnei yisrael camp kenneged hahar, I should
have said al yad,<BR>eitzel or tachat hahar. He answered that in the desert when
one camps he<BR>camps with his back towards the mountain, for the mountain
offers protection<BR>against the winds, sands, etc. So why does it say
keneged? Because it<BR>teaches that when klal yisrael came to Sinai, they
were ready to turn their<BR>backs towards the world, worldliness, and all that
is comprised in olam<BR>hazeh. They wanted ruchinyuss, and that was their
message upon arriving at<BR>Sinai.<BR><BR>If you accept this, then the author of
this homily added one can understand<BR>the verse in dayeinu. The fact
that God brought us to Sinai is sufficient<BR>because it afforded us the
opportunity to turn our backs on worldliness, and<BR>seek ruchniysuss which was
granted in the next verse of dayeinu.<BR><BR>and ein meshivin al
haderush,<BR><BR>chag sameiach<BR><BR>shlomo</DIV></BODY></HTML>