A good way to assess your avodas Hashem throughout the year
Rashi comments here that when Moshe gave Bnei Yisrael mussar, he didn’t mention specific incidents by name. Rather, to preserve Bnei Yisrael’s dignity, he nicknamed each place where they sinned and allowed them to deduce the rebuke hinted within.
Moshe referred to the last sin in the list, the Sin of the Golden Calf, as Di Zahav, hinting that the cause of the sin was the excessive gold they owned, which they used to make the Eigel Hazahav. (Rav Shalom Wallach, Maayan Hashavua)
The Nine Days were upon us, but despite the issur on hearing music, there was a steady singsong emanating from my couches.
“Mommy, I’m bored!”
“Ma, how come we never do anything?”
These voices have a unique rhythm, a song that’s been composed and revised generation after generation, ever since summer vacation was invented.
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