A vort from the Rabbi on this week's parashah, Parashat Yitro. Parashat Yitro we learn about matan Torah. And one of the things that happened in connection to matan Torah, the pasuk says ויהי קולות וברקים, there were noises and lightning, וקול שופר חזק מאוד, and a very strong noise from a שופר, ויחרד כל העם אשר במחנה, and the whole nation that was there in the camp was scared, got scared. Now, on pashut peshat, it seems like that the reason why Hashem made all these noises is to make the people feel scared in order to receive matan Torah out of fear. But the question is, why would the Aibershter have to do that? There was גילוי אלקות that time, there was the revelation of Hashem, they saw the truth of Hashem. So is that not enough to make the people get scared, have yirat Shamayim, have yirah, fear of Hashem? He has to make some kind of other imitation thing which is not real, just to make noises to scare a person, which is a very superficial thing? Why wasn't the גילוי אלקות itself enough?

So the Rabbi explains that this was not something that Hashem did like a nes to scare the people. Well, that happened also, the pasuk says, but there's more than that. It was a natural result of what was taking place by matan Torah. What took really place by matan Torah is, normally the world looks as itself as a metziut, as a yesh, as something. You could see it. It doesn't bring out the fact that the Aibershter created it and the real metziut is the Aibershter. The world doesn't show it. You have to think about it, etc., etc., you come to an understanding, but be'etzem the metziut of the world, as it says in sefarim, as it says in chassidut, shows that it is its own metziut. By matan Torah, what happened when there was גילוי אלקות, at matan Torah it showed that the truth is that there's nisht kein velt. The world is not a real metziut. The real metziut is only the Aibershter. The whole metziut of the world is because the Aibershter made it and it's all an extension, an expression of the Aibershter's will, but it's not a metziut for itself. So what happened by Matan Torah was nitgalah, got revealed, the opposite of what is thought otherwise. Now, we know the nature is that when a person knows something, or he thinks of something in a certain way, and then he finds out that it's completely different, opposite, the first thing you do is say, \"Wow!\" You make noise, that's what that says, you make noise. And not only in such a major thing, even in simple things when there's a certain sevara that you think is right, and all of a sudden you realize or someone tells you that explains to you that the whole thing is wrong, then automatically it makes some kind of noise, \"Wow! Whoa! This\" you make noise, that's a natural reaction. Same thing here. When by Matan Torah, the Aibershter brought out that people should feel that there's no מציאות א וועלט, the whole מציאות א וועלט is only the Aibershter, that automatically made קולות וברקים וקול שופר חזק מאוד. Mimela it wasn't like an extra nes Hashem made in order to scare the people. It came automatically. Since the Aibershter made that the world should see the truth of Elokut and that what the velt is no real metziut, that brought out that there would be קולות וברקים, that that made that the velt made noise as a result of realizing the truth of the opposite of what it thought before, realizing that the whole metziut is only the Aibershter and there's nothing else.