A special lamentation on Rabbi Ovadia Yosse זצוק"ל

On Monday Parshas Lech Lecha 3rd Cheshvan 5774, was materialize the מאמר חז"ל (יומא כ:) "When the soul leaves the body, its voice goes from the end of the world to the end".
The Jewish and Torah world was shaken from the end of the world to the end from the sound of the death and the passing to the next world of Gavra Rabba, glory of the generation, Posek Hador, Manig Israel in erez Israel an in the entire world Rabbi Ovadia Yosef זצוק"ל.

"ציון במר תבכה וירושלים תתן קולה".
The streets of Jerusalem were filled to capacity, with gathering of tens of thousands of בית ישראל from all walks of life, to pay their last respects, to accompany him on his last way the manig israel. The weeping voices of the eulogizers merged together, echoing in the air of Jerusalem. With a heart full of sorrow, bowed head, stunned and shocked, shattered and broken, accompanied the bed of the leader of the generation, refusing to part with their revered rabbi who left them for the life of the next world. "לך לך מארצך וממולדתך
ומבית אביך אל הארץ אשר אראך" "Go away from your country and your homeland and from the house of your father to the land which I will show you "


The פטירה of the genius of the generation, glory and hadar, Rabbi Ovadia זצ"ל came out on פרשת לך לך which starts with "ויאמר ה' אל אברם לך לך מארצך וממולדתך ומבית אביך אל הארץ אשר אראך". The זוהר חדש says in מדרש הנעלם (פרשה זו דף כד טור א) that there is a hint here about the mission that God sends the soul of the צדיק to this world into the body, the soul is called אבר"ם which is א"ב for the body to teach it the ways of God, and ר"ם means ר"ם ונשא above the material body.

רבי יעקב בר אידי says all the souls of the צדיקים were doomed under the כסא הכבוד to guide the body like the father is leading his son, without the soul the body will not be able to behave, and not to know and do the will of his Creator, like רבי אבהו says the soul is the teacher of the man he shuld go on a straight way. and while Gd sends her from the Holy Place he bless her with seven blessings, as written ויאמר ה' אל אברם, this is the soul that is א"ב to teach the body, and ר"ם that from a high place she came. and what does he tell her, go away from your country and your homeland, from your apartment, and your place, from your enjoyment and your father's house. Rabbi Yaakov said this is the אספקלריא המאירה to the land which I will show you, to this specific holy body.

And here in this week in the passing away of Rabbi Ovadia, we learned another interpretation on this פסוק as God tells the soul of the צדיק by its descent into this world "לך לך מארצך וממולדתך ומבית אביך אל הארץ אשר אראך", so it is with coming out from the body and returning to the next world, says Gd "Go from your homeland and from your father's house to the land that I will show you" to the upper land in the heaven, to pleasure the Torah with the צדיקים who enjoy the זיו השכינה in the גן עדן.

But the Tzaddik who all his life influenced Torah for tens of thousands of pupils, is afraid to leave his flock in this world without a shepherd, so God adds to him a clear promise: "ואעשך לגוי גדול" "And I will make you to a great nation," that will walk in the ways of the Torah that you instilled in them, "ואברכך ואגדלה שמך והיה ברכה" "and I will bless you and magnify your name and there will be a blessing," that even after your death your lips will speak in the grave, thanks to the tens of thousands of your students who will engage in Torah and your פסקי הלכה that you left them.

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