GC#36 - Pillars of Society - Omer Day 22 - a podcast by Amram Landau

You want to scare off potential customers? Tell them that there are 613 rules that need to be observed. That's what Moshe did. Perhaps that's too complicated...so along comes Dovid and reduces them to 11 principles. Yeshaya decides that even 11 is too many, so he cuts it down to 6 supporting pillars of faithfulness. Micha narrows it further - to just 3.

And then Chabakuk enters the picture. A mysterious figure, from whom Choni Ham'agel learn how to demand things from G-d, as a son from his father. He drew a circle and refused to budge - yes Chabakuk did it first! A circle has basically one line. He created one underlying principle, one pillar upon which our system rests - Emunah, or faithfulness. 

Emunah. That is Avraham's trademark. Avraham who, along with the other forefathers, is one of the three pillars upon whom the world rests. But it is also the description of Moshe's relationship with Hashem. Moshe, who also represents one of the two pillars of the Temple - Netzach.

And now Chabakuk says that there is one pillar? What is going on? Fasten your seatbelts - you're about to take off on an incredible week of explrong Moshe...

Three, two, one...liftoff

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