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Kedushas Levi

The Tefillin of the Master of the World

“VeAmartem Zevach Peshach Hu laHashem” – Shemos 12:27 (You shall say it is a pesach offering to Hashem).

Kedushas Levi Parshas Bo

We must try and understand why it is, that when we call the yomtov or holiday called by the Torah “Chag HaMatzos – the feast of unleavend bread,” (Shemos 23:15), we call it Pesach. Where do we find a hint in the Torah that we should call this yomtov by the name Pesach? In the entirety of the Torah this holiday is called Chag HaMatzos.

It is written in Shir HaShirim 6:3, “Ani leDodi veDodi li; I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.” This indicates that we speak the praises of the Holy One Blessed be He, and He in returns praises us [Israel]. So too when we wrap the tefillin they contain the praise of the Holy One Blessed be He, and when the Holy One Blessed be He wraps His ‘tefillin’ it is written in them the praise of Israel [the Jewish people.] (see Brachos 6a)

This will help us understand that which is written in the midrash Tana D’Vai Eliyahu that “it is a mitzvah to speak the praises of Israel - the Jewish people and that Hashem Yisborach has great nachas and pleasure from this praise.1 It seems that the reason is because it is forbidden for you to stop thinking of Tefillin while wearing them (Menachos 36b). It is a mitzvah for each man to continuously be occupied with tefillin, [alluding to] meaning to say that he should be either praising yisroel, the Jewish people or praising the Holy One Blessed be He. The praise of Israel refers to the Tefillin of the Master of the World in which the praises of the Jewish people are written as is taught in the Gemarra (Brachos 6a), “What is written in the Tefillin of the Master of the World ? Who is like (comapred to) your nation Israel?” The praise of the Holy One Blessed be He hints at our tefillin which contain the praise of Hashem yisborach meaning the parshios of Shema, Kadesh, veHaya (Menachos 34b). Therefore it comes out that we are constantly praising Hashem yisborach and Hashem is constantly praising Yisroel, us.

We find that the name “Chag HaMatzos” is called the praise of Israel. As we see in Rashi’s commentary on the verse 12:39 “They baked the dough into matzo cakes” Rashi there comments “The verse tells the praises of Israel, that they did not complain and say how will we go out into the wilderness without preparing provisions rather they had faith and they went. As is stated in the Prophets Yirmiya 2:2 “I rememberd for your favor the kindness of your youth, the love when you were a bride, your following Me in the desert in a land not sown.” We find that the name “Chag HaMatzos” is called the praise of Israel since they baked their dough into matzo cakes. This is why this holiday is called by the Torah “Chag HaMatzos”, as if Hashem is telling the praise of the Jewish people. And we call the yomtov by the name Pesach, this is the praise of Hashem, “You shall say it is a pesach offering to Hashem” because “he passed over” this is His praise just as in the verse above (Shir HaShirim 6:3), “Ani leDodi veDodi li; I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.”2

Notes:

1. “This is the holy Divine Service that a Jew must serve Hashem with in this world all the days of his life; He is obligated to always give praise and thanksgiving to Hashem’s holy attributes as is known, similarly he is obligated to advoacte on the behalf of and give the benefit of the doubt to Israel – the Jewish people His holy nation. To always gaze and see with clear open eyes in a good way their positive character traits and only to praise and give thanksgiving to Israel – the Jewish people His holy nation the sons of Avraham Yitzhak and Ya’akov. Surely the ways of our patriarchs are inherited by their progeny and your nation are all righteous Tzadikim and surely one who wishes to purify himself with this good and holy trait they help him from above that nothing evil should befall his holy people rather only goodness and merit. And he can teach merits and advocacy on the behalf of the Jewish people, because this is an important general principle and foundation in Avodas Hashem, and whosoever does not have this trait to see only the good in the Jewish people, and he lacks the trait of only praising Israel and that they should be pleasing and glorified in his eyes, and he cannot advocate pleading on their behalf giving them the benefit of the doubt; then he should know that surely he will never merit all the days of his life to even enter the gates of Avodas Hashem, because this is the gate for Hashem which Tzadikim shall enter.”

(The hand written work Pisgamin Kadishin by the Kedushas Levi – #10)

2. See Kedushas Levi in the Likkutim Ita BaTana & Bnei Yisaschar Nisan 10:1 which quote this teaching, and also Kedushas Levi Parshas Bo on the verse Roshi Al Kra’av, at the end where a similar idea is said in regard to us calling Shavous by the name Shabbos in regard for Hashem’s miracle where as Hashem refers to it as Mikra Kodesh in regard to us as the cause for His performance of those miracles.
See also Yismach Moshe Parshas Bo, Sefer HaYashar veHaTov on Rosh HaShana, Sefer Ohr Male on Shavous, Ravid HaZahav in Likuttim who all quote and discuss this teaching of the Kedushas Levi as well.

The Glory of Israel – The Kedushas Levi Klal Yisroel’s Tefillin

Rebbe Nachman of Breslov warned his students and followers that when Rav Levi Yitzchak would pass through the borders of their towns they must afterwards have their tefillin examined. The Rebbe himself had his own tefillin checked when the Kedushas Levi passed through. “This is,” explained Rebbe Nachman “because the holy Rav of Berditshev is the aspect of “Pe’er Yisroel” – the glory of Israel which represents the attribute of tefillin.” (Toldos Kedushas Levi Munkacz 4:48) (See also Sichos HaRan 196, Yemey Moharanat 28b)

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