יפקוד ה' וגו' איש על העדה וגו' ואשר יוציאם ואשר יביאם, כתבתי בשם מורי זלה"ה ביאור פסוק יפקוד ה' איש אשר יוציאם ואשר יביאם, כי ראש הדור יוכל להעלות כל הדיבורים והסיפורים של אנשי דורו, לקשר הגשמיי ברוחניי כמו (בתענית דכ"ב ע"א) תרי בדחי וכו' ודפח"ח: (בן פורת יוסף דט"ז ע"א).
May the L‑rd, the G‑d of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who can go out before them and come in before them, who will bring them out, and bring them in, so that the congregation of G‑d be not as sheep without a shepherd. (Ibid. 27:16-17) The leader of the generation is able to uplift all of the speech and conversation of the people of his generation – to join the physical to the spiritual. This is similar to the two jokesters…5Ta’anis 22a. Rabbi Broka was once conversing with the prophet Elijah in the marketplace of Bei Lefet. “Is there anyone in this marketplace who will receive the World to Come,” he asked him. Elijah pointed to two men. Rabbi Broka asked them what they did. They told him that they were jokesters, and that when they saw people depressed, they would cheer them up. Ben Poras Yosef, p. 16a
יפקוד ה' וגו' איש על העדה וגו' ואשר יוציאם ואשר יביאם, כתבתי בשם מורי זלה"ה ביאור פסוק יפקוד ה' איש אשר יוציאם ואשר יביאם, כי ראש הדור יוכל להעלות כל הדיבורים והסיפורים של אנשי דורו, לקשר הגשמיי ברוחניי כמו (בתענית דכ"ב ע"א) תרי בדחי וכו' ודפח"ח:
(בן פורת יוסף דט"ז ע"א).
May the L‑rd, the G‑d of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who can go out before them and come in before them, who will bring them out, and bring them in, so that the congregation of G‑d be not as sheep without a shepherd. (Ibid. 27:16-17)
The leader of the generation is able to uplift all of the speech and conversation of the people of his generation – to join the physical to the spiritual. This is similar to the two jokesters…5Ta’anis 22a. Rabbi Broka was once conversing with the prophet Elijah in the marketplace of Bei Lefet. “Is there anyone in this marketplace who will receive the World to Come,” he asked him. Elijah pointed to two men. Rabbi Broka asked them what they did. They told him that they were jokesters, and that when they saw people depressed, they would cheer them up.
Ben Poras Yosef, p. 16a