Waves are loud. Waves do big things. They rise higher and higher… and then they crash. And the chiddush is: that's exactly what Hashem praises. Not the person who “arrived,” but the person who keeps trying to rise מתוך געגועים והשתוקקות — even when it didn’t work yet.
Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David learn the difference between “success” in the Western world (goal-oriented) and success in avodas Hashem: not that I made it.... but that I didn’t give up. And how real yearning (“כי זה כמה נכסוף נכספתי”) can’t just be in the head. It has to move you, even a little, into action… because davening is called avodah for a reason.
Along the way, we connect:
- The wave that falls… and comes back again.
- Aharon HaKohen’s pain, and why Hashem says: your ratzon is greater than their korbanos.
- The koach of ratzon in Chazal (even when the full “result” didn’t happen the way you dreamed).
- Looking at another Yid with רחמים: maybe they didn’t “fall” — maybe they just came down from a wave.
May we merit a Shabbos of deeper waves, deeper hishtokekus, and to look at each other with those eyes that give a person strength to rise again, and this time: deeper, wiser, stronger.
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