A gut voch, chaverim.
Sefirat HaOmer is now behind us, and with Shavuot — the Chag Atzeret — the season of Pesach has also come to its conclusion.
This week’s parashah, Parashat Naso, opens with a command to Aharon:
that he fulfill his task “when the lights are lit.”
In the Torah, a light always refers to the human soul, as King Shlomo writes in Mishlei:
“The lamp of HaShem is the soul of man.”
HaShem commands Aharon to elevate the souls of the people —
to bring them closer to Him and to His ways.
The Torah then simply states:
“And Aharon did so.”
Rashi explains why this needed to be mentioned.
The Torah praises Aharon because he did not change anything from what he had been commanded.
But why is that explanation even necessary?
Would we really have assumed that Aharon would deviate from the word of HaShem?
What Rashi is actually teaching us is far deeper:
Aharon himself was not changed by the greatness of his mission.
Even while elevating the souls of the people, he did not become arrogant.
He remained just as humble, simple, and modest as he had always been.
It was precisely that humility that became the source of his success.
How fortunate we would be if we too could attain that attitude:
to elevate the souls of others,
without ever being changed by our own accomplishments.
