Parasha vaetjan

"And I prayed to the Creator at that time, saying, O Lord! You have begun to show your greatness and your mighty hand, for what other God is there in heaven and on earth who can do your works and have your power? I beg you to let me pass so that I may behold the good land that is on the other side of the Jordan..." (Deuteronomy 3:23)

As we already mentioned, the name of this Parasha is "Veetjanan" which translates as "I begged"
In Hebrew, VeetJaNaN comes from the root "JaNaN" and means "gracious," meaning an undeserved gift. And although the tzadikim (the great righteous) have many merits, they beg the Creator to grant their requests as undeserved gifts.

We can understand that when we need to ask the Creator for something we should pray to receive it only.
"like an undeserved gift" and not as payment in return for our actions.

Furthermore, we should not insist that the Creator answer our prayers, but rather we should accept "with gratitude" the answer of the blessed Creator, whether He grants our request or not.

We can learn in this Parasha that despite all that Moshe Rabbenu (our great teacher Moses) begged the Blessed Creator to allow him to enter the Land of Israel, Moshe did not succeed, However, he did not become angry or sad, Otherwise, he continued to encourage and prepare his people to enter and possess the long-awaited Land.

Let us raise our prayers to the Blessed Creator, believing with complete certainty that He hears us and that our supplications are like undeserved gifts, and that the answer to our supplications will be the best for us, no matter what, for that is His will, since the Creator always does what is best. Therefore, from now on, we should be joyful and filled with gratitude.

Dedicated to the upliftment of the soul of our beloved mother and grandmother: Bertha bat Simja (Happy), and to the healing of all the sick in Am Israel and the world.

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