Parable of the 3 Suits I Haftora Chazon

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

this week's half Torah is a very famous half Torah. There's a story told by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, which is a parable. That he says that on Shabbos Hazon on this Shabbos, the word Hazon means to see, God shows every Jew the third holy temple. We know that the third holy temple is already built and will come down from heaven when we are ready. And so on this Shabbos, God shows every Jew the third holy temple. The word Hazon is like Aramaic. In other words, the vision is not that clear. It's not re'eh to see, but rather Hazon, which is more from the distance. If we look very hard and we close our eyes and we focus in a soul vision, we have the possibility of seeing this third holy temple. And Rabbi Yitzchak goes on to say that it's similar to a father who bought his child a beautiful suit. And Shabbos morning he comes to shul and while the ba'al koreh is reading the Torah, like the children do, they run outside to play on the monkey bars and he fell down and he tore his suit. He comes running in to the shul crying, "Tati, Tati, Daddy, I tore my suit." And the father says, "Don't worry, my dear son. I love you. I'll get you another suit." And that's what happened. That week he went out and he bought his child a more beautiful suit than the week before.

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