Devar/5768/Behaalotcha
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And Moses said unto them: 'Stay ye, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.' (Num 9:8)
Throughout the generations, hundreds of prophets came from the Jewish people, but only a small portion merited to be mentioned in the Bible. All of them were similar in the manner of their prophecy -- that God would speak to them in a prophetic vision or in a dream, and all of them, when they were prophesying, their limbs would shake and their bodily strength falter (Laws of the Fundamentals of Torah 7:5). That is to say, they were not in control of themselves during prophetic visions.
But none of the prophets, would prophesy whenever he wanted. But Moshe our teacher was not like that; rather, whenever he desired, the Holy spirit would envelope him, and he did not need to concentrate and prepare himself for it, since he was always in a state of concentration and prepared, and awaiting like the ministering angels. Therefore he would prophesy whenever he wanted, as the verse states, "Stay ye, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you" (Num 9:8). (Laws of the Fundamentals of Torah 7:13)
Even though Moshe our teacher was unique, it is a mitsvah to obey any prophet who may arise amongst the Jewish people: it is a mitsvah to obey him, as the verse states, "you shall obey him" (Deut 18:15) (Laws of the Fundamentals of Torah 7:16). Except that for thousands of years we have not seen a new prophet amongst the Jewish people.
May it be His will that we merit a renewal of prophecy, and through that the renewal of the Kingship of the House of David!
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