Getting to Know You
By Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz
This Shabbat is my 44th birthday, and I find that life has gotten difficult. I wonder why G-d has chosen to give me ALS. While it is difficult for me, it is by far harder on my wife, Dina, who has taken over all my responsibilities on top of her own. It is hard to understand why G-d does these things. The only thing I can do is trust that He knows what He is doing.
In the portion of Pekudei we read how the artisans made the clothing of the Kohanim and several vessels of the Mishkan. After every item was completed, it says, that they made it, “as G-d commanded Moses.” Indeed, Moses was so impressed by this that he blessed them.
Later in the parshah, we read how Moses erected the Mishkan and placed all its vessels in it. Again, after every job done, it says that he did it “as G-d commanded Moses.”
Why is it so important for the Torah to repeat this over and over again?
Artists and craftsmen have a creative spark in them. They have their way of seeing things that influence the outcome of their work. It takes a special kind of person who can listen to another and create the other’s vision, completely ignoring his or her own inner creative spark. It is truly difficult to do what another asks in exactly the way they want you to. And because of this, it is amazing that by the Mishkan, every task was done “as G-d commanded Moses.”
How were they able to do it?
They were not ignoring their creative spark. Rather, they were so in tune with G-d that their creative spark was totally in line with G-d’s will. When you are one with G-d, you find it easier to do what He wants.
The book of Exodus ends with this story. It tells
us that when the Mishkan—built by these artisans—was completed, G-d’s presence filled it.
Like the artisans of old, we are each blessed with our own dispositions, natures and creative energy. We all have our own way of thinking. And we also have those moments when we think: “Everyone else is wrong and I am right. When things are not the way I think they should be, the world becomes a dark place.”
When this happens, the ego has taken over, and there is no room for anything or anyone else. When that happens, you are alone because your ego leaves no space for anyone else.
Yet when you bring humility into the picture, you find value in others. When you begin to see and feel another person’s way of thinking, you open the door to friendship, closeness, love and oneness.
The same is true when it comes to our relationship with G-d. We all have ideas of what G-d wants of us. However, through studying Torah, especially the esoteric Chassidic teachings, we get to know G-d in a more intimate way. Slowly, we transform and align ourselves with Him, and His will becomes our will.
Realizing that all that we go through is from G-d is also part of getting to know Him.
It is my hope that we will soon merit to see G-d’s presence fill our actions, our lives and our Temple. May we come to see how our difficulties contributed in accomplishing the transformation that brings Moshiach. Until then, be strong, be strong, and let us strengthen each other. Chazak, chazak, venitchazek!
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YOUR FATHER
The mashpia in Lubavitch, R’ Michoel the Elder, would repeat to his students in yeshiva that when learning Chassidus – and from this we understand it applies to all Torah study – it must be not like one learns or reads letters from a stranger, something that’s going on somewhere out there, but one needs to know that the words are directed at him.
He explained this with a parable. Once upon a time, there were ‘yishuvnikes’ who for reasons of livelihood lived in settlements where there were hardly any Jews, or even on their own. Over time, because of the disconnect from a Jewish environment and the absence of opportunities to learn in yeshivos and chadarim, there were those who despite being great yerei shomayim were ignorant and they could not even read.
A letter once came from a distant place to one of these people and since he couldn’t read, he brought the letter to the melamed, as was the practice, that several of these yishuvnikes would hire a melamed for their children and he would live equidistant from all the surrounding settlements so it would convenient for all to bring their children to him – for this man to read the letter for him.
When the melamed began reading the letter, he
saw that it was about the passing of the yishuvnik’s father. As the melamed read it, the yishuvnik fainted.
R’ Michoel said to his students: The melamed was the one who was reading the letter. The yishuvnik, who was only listening to someone else, is the one who fainted. Why? The answer is, that to the melamed the letter was about a stranger; to the yishuvnik, it was about his father!
The nimshal is, when one learns Chassidus and thinks it’s someone else’s father, then he could learn Chassidus, read it correctly, and know what it says, and still won’t faint. When someone merely hears what his fellow is learning, but he knows that it’s meant for him, and that it is his Father in heaven, then he faints!
(Toras Menachem vol. 42, p. 164)
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The Chassid, R’ Avrohom Shmuel Lebenharz said that he once heard R’ Dovid Horodoker read a chapter of Tanya with enormous enthusiasm until two in the morning. “I understood then what is explained in Chassidus about pleasure from the ray of the Shechina that is in the World to Come.”
(Otzar HaChassidim Bris HaMoatzos p. 172)
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