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Beyond Speech
A Call to Every Jew
By Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz
In the portion of Lech Lecha, G-d commanded Abraham, lech lecha, “go for yourself, from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you." G-d continues to tell Abraham, "I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great." This is the first command given the first Jew. There is obviously a profound message that is being transmitted for every Jewish person, for all time.
What is the message? There are two approaches to understanding this verse.
The first is that it is referring to the journey of the soul, a descent from above to below. The soul is asked to leave its home in the highest spiritual realms and make the descent into the lowest possible plane, the physical world. But in this earthly realm it affects the most change and accomplishes its purpose. The effect is so powerful that it brings G-d's blessing and becomes great. This means that the soul is uplifted to higher spiritual realms, beyond where it was before its descent.
In this way of understanding the verse, we are given a glimpse of our purpose, the goal of every one of us, to make this world into a better place, the way G-d wants it. A place where G-d could call home.
The second approach is more in line with the simple meaning of the verse. It refers to the ascent from below to above we must make every day. We go from "your land, your birthplace, and your father's house," which in the context of the verse, refers to a place and an atmosphere of idol worship, "to the land that I will show you," the land of Israel, a place of holiness.
This is especially poignant now after the holidays, when we are thrust into the mundane, which chasidic teaching calls, V'Yaakov halach l'darko, “and Jacob went on his way"--meaning that every "Jacob," every Jew, goes on his way after the
holidays, doing his mission to transform his part of the world into a dwelling place for G-d.
We use the name Jacob, which comes from the word eikev, a heel, which is the lowest part of a person's body, because we can even transform the lowest part of ourselves to do G-d's will. When the heel is transformed and moves in the ways of G-d, it takes the rest of the body with it.
We see this on Simchat Torah, the grand finale of the holidays. When we celebrate through dancing with the soles of our feet, the body and head dance as well. This is the same message and a preparation for the rest of the year. If you can get the lowest part of you to serve G-d, then all of you will serve G-d. And if you can transform the lowest part of the world into a dwelling place for G-d, you can then transform the whole world. Because when you lift something from the bottom, you lift the entire thing.
Torah, mitzvot and living the life of a Jew transform this world, and we have the power to do it. We inherited the ability from our forefather Abraham. It is through this work that we complete G-d's command to Abraham: lech lecha.
Although these two explanations are opposites— the first, a descent, and the second, an ascent— they are both explanations of the same verse and are therefore simultaneously true. We must take both messages at the same time. To descend to this world, and we should try to change it from the bottom up.
Lech Lecha is a call to every Jewish person, to do all you can to complete the mission and make this world into a home for G-d. It is through both of these approaches working simultaneously that we create an environment that the highest levels of G-dliness, even the levels that are beyond the world, to enter the world and become part of our lives.
This is the key to the blessings found in our parshah, and the path to the ultimate blessing, the coming of Moshiach. May he come soon.
Story Time
Who Is “I” That Is Speaking?
WHO IS “I” THAT IS SPEAKING?
A famous non-Chassidish rav once attended the Kinus Torah at 770, which took place by the instruction of the Rebbe Rayatz. He delivered an outstanding pilpul, with his ego making a strong showing. When he finished, the mashpia, R’ Shmuel Levitin said what he heard from his father-in-law, R’ Asher Margolies:
The gaon, R’ Yehoshua Isaac Schapira, rav of Kutna and Salmina in Poland, was appointed over the Misnagdim, while his father, R’ Yechiel, was a Chassid of the Alter Rebbe and a watchmaker.
R’ Isaac once delivered a lecture in a shul in Minsk to the satisfaction of the participants. His father, though, wept. He explained to his bewildered son, “A few times in your lecture you said, ‘I say.’ Who is this ‘I say’?!”
(Otzar HaChassidim New York page 242)
2 small are Better than 1 Big ‘YESH’
The daughter of the Chassid, R’ Meir Simcha Chein said that as a girl, she attended her father’s farbrengens in which he would speak a lot to the tmimim about the need for bittul ha’yesh (nullifying the ego), saying, “There should not be a yesh!”
“I once asked my father what this ‘yesh’ is that we need to avoid so much. My father explained it on a child’s level that ‘yesh’ means that a person senses his self as an entity and this is not good. I asked, ‘What should a person do when this feeling comes to him?’
My father said, ‘You need to break this yesh.’ ‘But then you will have two little yeshes,’ I said. My father said, ‘Better to fight two small ones than one big one.’”
(Chassidim HaRishonim, vol. 2, p. 176)
‘AND I WON’T SEE HIM’
There was a Misnaged who abstained from matters of this world for seven years. He sat sequestered in his room and studied Torah day and night until he came to think that there was nobody like him.
He somehow heard about the greatness of the Maggid and decided to travel to him. Before he arrived, he decided that if the Maggid would honor him, that would mean that the Maggid sensed his exalted status and it would prove the Maggid was great. If the Maggid did not sense his greatness, that would indicate that the Maggid wasn’t great and he would go home.
The Misnaged arrived at the Maggid for Shabbos and when he saw nobody looking at him he decided to leave as soon as Shabbos was over.
At the third Shabbos meal, the Maggid asked Reb Zushe of Anipoli to say something. Reb Zushe said, “In heaven, they say on the verse, ‘Will a man hide in a hiding place and I won’t see him, says the L-rd,’ will a man hide in a hiding place and I – when a man hides for years in abstention and he still feels his ‘I,’ the rest of the verse applies to him, ‘I won’t see him, says the L-rd.’”
The Misnaged realized this was said about him and he stayed to learn in Mezritch for several years.
After some time, the Maggid asked Reb Zushe to speak at the third Shabbos meal again and. Reb Zushe said, “In heaven, they say, ‘Will a man hide in a hiding place and I won’t – when a man sits and learns and doesn’t feel his ‘I,’ then ‘I will see him, says the Lord.’”
(Teshura Langsam)
Recipe of the week
Chocolate Peanut Butter Popcorn
Mix
By Avigael Levi, Kosher.com
INGREDIENTS
8 cups ready-made popcorn
1 and 1/2 cups Gefen Confectioners’ Sugar
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup Gefen Chocolate Chips
1 teaspoon Haddar Vanilla Extract
PREPARATION
1. Put the popcorn in a large bowl.
2. Pour the confectioners’ sugar into a gallon-sized resealable bag. If you’re making a small batch, use Gefen Confectioners’ Sugar Shaker.
3. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt the chocolate chips and peanut butter together in 30-second intervals, until smooth. Add in the vanilla extract.
4. Drizzle the melted chocolate mixture over the popcorn and mix until popcorn is coated.
5. Spoon the coated popcorn into the resealable bag, zip it closed, and shake until everything is covered in powdered sugar.
6. Eat it right out of the bag or pour the popcorn into a serving bowl. Happy munching!
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