"Vaeschanan el Hashem ba'eis hahu laimor/And I (Moshe Rabeinu) prayed to Hashem at that time saying"(Devorim 3:23)
Moshe Rabeinu prayed to Hashem, say chazal, as many prayers as the numerical value of the word vaeschanan. This amounts to 515 prayers, so strong was Moshe's desire to enter the Holy Land of Eretz Yisroel. We've all asked for something that we desired and have been rejected. We've all asked again and again, some of us more than others. But it gets to a point where we give up. Moshe didn't give up till after 515 times. The principle we see here is that the way to elevation is persistence and even stubbornness. In spiritual matters we need to adopt the attitude that "nothing else matters. This matter is crucial and I'll keep trying and trying. (Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz)
Reb Nachman learns from the above quoted pasuk in Lekutei Moharan 99, that a person has to pray to Hashem with dveikus/fervor/cleaving, but if there are times when one can't he shall not say that since I can't pray with dveikus I will not pray at all. Thats what it means in the pasuk "ba'eis hahu/at that time", even at those times when we don't "feel it" we still need to be persistent and then that one time when we do "feel it" it will bring our prayers up to the highest level.
The problem that we have is that we live in a disposable generation. If something doesn't work, chuck it! Get a new one! You tried something and it didn't work out? Forget about it! Start something else! This is not the way of the Torah and serving Hashem. We need persistence! Just stick to it! Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but if we stick to our guns, it will come to us! We will succeed! We will overcome!
So lets start with thinking and hoping for Moshiach everyday! Most of the times we wont feel it, but if we just keep on saying and keep on hoping, together we wilol bring Moshiach out of his hiding and he will help us with the building of the third and final Beis Hamikdash! Speedily! In our days! Amen! Then we will all come together in the Holy Land of Eretz Yisroel to bask in the light of Hashem, and enjoy the abundance of milk and honey!
A great Shabbos Nachamu to one and all,
peace and joy,
Etan
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