40) Be There!

G-d says to Moshe; “Go up the mountain and be there and I will give you the stone Tablets.”[1]

The Kotzker Rebbe comments; “This verse is difficult to understand because surely if Moshe goes up the mountain, he will (obviously) ‘be there’?

But the fact is that it is possible to ostensibly and physically be on the top of the ‘mountain’ and yet spiritually and intellectually be somewhere else. 

The main thing is not the ‘mountain’ but the ‘being there’"![2]

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[1] Shemot 24:12

[2] Amud HaEmet p.59 par.2