CLD #386

For the Refua Shlema of Mordechai Tzvi ben Sara & Binyamin ben Blanka.

IT IS THE LAST SHABBAT OF THE YEAR! (Just heard great advice: Maybe let’s all keep Shabbat another hour to show Hashem how much we care that He gives us life?)

Parshiyot Nitzvam-VaYelech:

There is an unbelievably simple Pasuk from Parashat Nitzavim:

“This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses [that I have warned] you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. You shall choose life, so that you and your offspring will live; (Devarim 30:19)”

This Pasuk is the words that Moshe told Bnei Yisrael in the name of Hashem on HIS LAST DAY OF LIFE (he lived for a full 120 years!). If Hashem is the one giving us life, then why did He tell Moshe to tell Bnei Yisrael this pasuk? Isn’t it obvious that there are blessings and curses and there is simple good and evil in the world? Isn’t it obvious that there were (only in our generation alon) anything from Smachot to tsunamis Hashem yerachem! Obviously we all know this information just from day-to-day living. So what is the Pasuk telling us to do NOW, the last Shabbat before Rosh HaShanah, the final days before Yom HaDin (Judgment day)?

Its telling us to pick life. Ok, great, I am living already. So what do you mean?

We all have a potential and theCLD does not want to stop emphasizing that. The Yetzer Hara tells us we have a limit to that potential and we all need to stop where we’re at because “we are doing enough.” But we aren’t. Hashem wants us TO CHOOSE this way of reaching our Maximum spiritual potentials.

IT DOESN’T MATTER if we have been sinning the entire year and completely IGNORED Hashem! We can still turn the year around for the positive just by WANTING SINCERELY to keep Shabbat, or even just to say Kiddush, or just to say Birkat Asher Yatzar (Beracha after the bathroom, look in your siddur). Let’s just show something, some effort to Hashem, to say: Thank You for giving me life, Thank You for giving me a NESHAMA (soul) that is DIRECTLY Connected to You! Choosing life means choosing a world with Hashem as the manager.

Thank You Hashem for SHABBAT KODESH, to disconnect from society and therefore CONNECT TO YOU (even though we still connect to You when we connect to society)!

Rosh HaShanah is in 5 days.

SHABBAT SHALOM!

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