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    Under the Wings of the Shechina

    • Posted by Rabbi Dr. Michael Schulman
    • Categories Noahide World News
    • Date January 7, 2018
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    Question: What does it mean to be brought “under the wings of the Shechina”?

    Answer: See Rashi’s explanation of Genesis 12:5 -

    Genesis 12:5. “And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go to the land of Canaan, and they came to the land of Canaan.”

    Rashi first explains the Midrashic meaning of the underlined phrase:

    “and the souls that they had acquired in Haran”: whom he [Abram/Abraham] had brought under the wings of the Shechinah. Abraham would “convert” the men, and Sarah would “convert” the women, and Scripture ascribes to them [a merit] as if they had made them. (Hence, the expression אֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ, [simply translated as "that they had acquired", but] literally, “that they made”.)…

    This was before the Torah was given at Mount Sinai, when the Israelites became the Jewish people, so the “conversion” referred to by Rashi means that Abraham and Sarah convinced many people in their home city of Haran to reject idolatry and to accept and follow the One True God, and those people were inspired to became their followers. Abraham and Sarah not only taught their followers to believe in the One God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, but also to observe the Seven Commandments that God commanded through Noah. In simple terms, these people became Righteous Gentiles, which uplifted their souls. With this faith and obedience to God, they merited to receive blessings and a close attachment to God’s Divine Presence (the Shechina), and spiritual reward in this world and in their afterlife. The euphemistic term for this spiritual advancement is to be brought “under the wings of the Shechina”.

    The Lubavitcher Rebbe expounded in a talk:*

    Speaking of Avraham and Sarah, the Torah refers to “the souls that they made in Haran.” Rashi explains that they are said to have “made” the souls, “for they took them in under the wings of the Divine Presence [the Shechina]. Avraham would ‘convert’ the men, and Sarah would ‘convert’ the women. Scripture considers this as if they made them.”
    Rashi does not mean conversion to Judaism in the literal sense, for that is a phenomenon that began only after the Torah’s revelation [at Mount Sinai]. Rather, he emphasizes, “they took them in under the wings of the Divine Presence.” This also explains why Targum Onkelos [the Aramaic translation] renders the verse as: “those whom they made subservient to the Torah,” and not “those whom they converted.”


    *Originally published in Likkutei Sichos, Vol. 5, pp. 143-144, fn. 16. English translation published by Sichos in English, in To Perfect the World, p. 4.

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    Rabbi Dr. Michael Schulman
      Dr. Schulman has a Ph.D. in Physics and has produced numerous patents and technical papers. Since 1999 he has spearheaded sustained global efforts in providing authentic and accurate outreach, teaching and guidance for the Noahide Campaign that was launched by the Lubavitcher Rebbe. His organization, Ask Noah International. has sponsored and published groundbreaking books on the Noahide Code by Rabbi Moshe Weiner, These include "The Divine Code," which is Rabbi Weiner's English translation and exposition of his original Hebrew work "Sheva Mitzvot HaShem." Dr Schulman’s life is an example for all the Jewish people in reaching out to Gentiles with the Noahide Code. He has been blessed to have a family that is dedicated to Torah education and values, and he now lives in Jerusalem.

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