Ki Sisah

In perek 31 pasuk 2-17 the Torah highlights the importance of keeping the Shabbos and the covenant between the bnei Yisrael and Hashem. Rashi on pasuk 13 says that we should not think that the building of the mishkan would overrides the interestsof Shabbos.

Why would bnei Yisrael have a hava amina (any original reason to think) that banyan hamishkan would override Shabbos? Isn’t it clear that Shabbos is asur b’milacha. What would be the matir?

The Ramban in the end of Parshas Bo says that there are two components to the Mitzvah of belief of the existence of Hashem.

Belief in: A) Hashgacha Pratis

B) Brias Ha’olam

My father, Rabbi Shalom Richter, suggested that the concept of hashgacha is reflected in the ebb and flow of the dynamic relationship that we have with hakadosh baruch hu. The fixed relationship that Hashem has with his world is reflected in brias haolam, the creation of the world. Therefore, on the one hand the intensity of hashgacha could be most prominently experienced by the hashra’as hashchina. On the other hand, the vastness of Hashem’s universe can be predominated by the rules of nature and universals of the natural world. This concept is discussed by the Rambam in the second perek of hilchos yesodei hatorah halachos 1-5.

The hava amina maintained that we should operate with the experiential hashgacha pratis of the dynamic relationship with Hakadosh Baruch Hu. This should procede the maintenance of the universals because of the experiential nature.

The maskna is that first and foremost knowledge of Hahsem must initially exhaust itself in the concepts of the universals and then it must carry over in the hashgacha pratis.