The name of the weekly section is Behar – "on the mountain." Such a name raises a question: the verse from which the name Behar originates says "Behar Sinai" – on Mount Sinai – so the parashah should be called "Sinai" or at least "Behar Sinai," but what is the point of saying "on the mountain" when it doesn’t specify which mountain?
The question becomes even more compelling when we analyze the spiritual significance of Mount Sinai: our sages teach that Mount Sinai was chosen as the site for the giving of the Torah because it is the lowest of all mountains. The combination of the words "mountain" and "Sinai" contains the ideas of elevation ("mountain") and self-annihilation ("Sinai"). (The word Sinai is related in its origin to the word...) sné The bramble bush—which is the lowest tree in the world—means that the combination of the words "Mount Sinai" requires a person to have strength and elevation while also being humble and insignificant in their own eyes. Given this, how do we omit half the concept from the parashah's name? The parashah is called Behar—on the mountain—indicating the idea of elevation and leaving out the word "Sinai," which symbolizes humility.
To understand this question, we must first understand the meaning of humility. The concept of "the smallness of man" arises from the recognition of "the greatness of God." Man experiences insignificance before God when he feels that God is the only true existence.
From this recognition arises a self-annihilation so profound that the person doesn't even feel they are annihilating themselves. The very fact that the person feels His surrender to the Almighty testifies that there is also a feeling of one's own existence being surrendered to God. However, when a person reaches the level of true self-annihilation, he does not feel his own existence, a feeling that includes not even being aware of his own self-annihilation, but rather he only feels God.
This concept also finds its expression in the halakha - Jewish law - in the difference between an envoy ""Shaliaj and a servant"A person's envoy is like the person himself." However, this applies only to the specific mission entrusted to the envoy, not to other matters; on the contrary, a servant has no independent existence whatsoever. The servant's existence is that of his master, so "what a servant acquires, his master acquires [automatically].".
This is the spiritual meaning of the name of our parashah "Behar": the elevation that arises from absolute self-annihilation before God. The Jew surrenders himself so deeply to God that he doesn't even feel his self-annihilation, to the point that his entire existence is being a tool in God's hands.
At the beginning of the Jew's Divine service, he is required to ascend ("Mountain"), only afterward does he come to the feeling that his entire existence is God, and therefore no further action is necessary. action of self-cancellation, but it occurs automatically.
Adapted from Shulchan Shabbat.