The Secret of “Sun and Moon Stood in Their Dwelling; by the Light of Your Arrows

Why don’t the sun and the moon want to shine every day? And how is this connected to what Reuven said during the sale of Yosef—“Where can I go?” And through what do we merit that all our prayers ascend? You will find the answers to these questions in the daily teaching before you, written by the Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a—full and overflowing with wondrous new insights your ear has never heard.

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“SUN AND MOON STOOD IN THEIR DWELLING; BY THE LIGHT OF YOUR ARROWS THEY WENT; BY THE RADIANCE OF THE FLASH OF YOUR SPEAR” (Habakkuk 3:11)

“And brightness will be like light; rays from His hand are His, and there is the hiding of His might” (3:4), for the sun and the moon do not want to shine until You execute judgment upon the nations. Therefore, every morning in “Hodu LaHashem ki tov ki l’olam chasdo” we say: “Kel Nekamos Hashem, Kel Nekamos hofi’a.” For the sun no longer wants to shine unless Hashem avenges the spilled blood of His servants.

And therefore, when Reuven said during the sale of Yosef, “Where can I go?” (Genesis 37:30), he was already being informed about the killing of the Ten Martyrs of the Kingdom, and about all the killings, the catastrophes, and the destructions that would occur—until Moshiach ben David comes. And this is the acronym of “Aneh ani ba” (“Where can I go?”) — Kel Nekamos Y-ah Kel Nekamos Hofi’a— which we say each and every morning in the Song of the Sun, “Hodu LaHashem ki tov ki l’olam chasdo.”

“Kel Nekamos Hashem, Kel Nekamos hofi’a”—for only when we bind ourselves to all the Ten Martyrs of the Kingdom, and especially to the soul of Rabbi Akiva, whose flesh they combed with iron combs—only then does Hashem hear our prayers, and our prayer has an ascent. And only then will we return to the land that Hashem swore to your forefathers—to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. And then, “The deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high” (Habakkuk 3:10).[embeddoc url="https://www.shuvubanimint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ה-הוא-האלקים-יום-ד-נשא-ד-סיון-מח-למטמונים-תשפג1.pdf" download="all" viewer="google"]