Chasidut zu Bereschit 1:9
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֗ים יִקָּו֨וּ הַמַּ֜יִם מִתַּ֤חַת הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ אֶל־מָק֣וֹם אֶחָ֔ד וְתֵרָאֶ֖ה הַיַּבָּשָׁ֑ה וַֽיְהִי־כֵֽן׃
Und Gott sprach: Es sammle sich das Wasser unter dem Himmel an einen Ort, und sichtbar werde das Trockene; und es ward also.
Kedushat Levi
Moses’ song was inspired by the immensity of the miracle that he and the people had witnessed at the time. They had witnessed the “death” and “resurrection” of the universe, albeit in miniature. If the letter ז is symbolic of the עולם העשיה, the universe after its completion on the seventh day, the letter א is symbolic of the very beginning of creation, so that Moses alluded to the process of a reversal in the creative process as having occurred as part of the miracle they had witnessed at that time. It is not accidental that in the Torah scroll instead of writing the שירה, “song” in the normal fashion, the lines are broken, interrupted so as to convey the manner in which bricks are laid, not one exactly above the other, but in a pattern that enables the wall to survive sudden impacts. This is true even of stone walls that are not joined by cement.
At this point the author allegorically describes חיות, the essence of “life” as the word of G’d which was the cement that holds together the different parts of the universe, all of which came into existence by His ten oral directives enumerated in the first chapter of Genesis. The empty spaces between the letters (words) are an allusion to the part of the world where this miracle occurred having retreated toward its origin before the definite contours of that universe had been finalized.
At this point the author allegorically describes חיות, the essence of “life” as the word of G’d which was the cement that holds together the different parts of the universe, all of which came into existence by His ten oral directives enumerated in the first chapter of Genesis. The empty spaces between the letters (words) are an allusion to the part of the world where this miracle occurred having retreated toward its origin before the definite contours of that universe had been finalized.
Ask RabbiBookmarkShareCopy