CLD #469

For the Refua Shlema of Mordechai ben Shoshana & for the Ilui Neshama of Avraham ben Ester ZT’L.

Baruch Hashem, Eretz HaKodesh is amazing. Even the air feels more spiritual and clean! We had the zchut (privelige) to learn with Rav Darmoni shlit’a and one of the Shana Alef Yeshiva students (first year) brought up a beautiful Dvar Torah from the learning of Hilchot Shabbat (the Laws of Shabbat). We learned that if there is a semi-cooked pot of food on the Plata (Blech/Metal Plate on open fire), if someone lifts off the pot on Shabbat then they cannot put it back on the plata. Why? Because when one takes the pot off the plata and then puts it back on, it’s considered Melachat Bishul (cooking, which is forbidden on Shabbat). This is exactly like turning light on and off. The flow of fire heating up the semi-cooked food in the pot stops when lifting the pot off the plata, so therefore when one puts it back onto the plata, it is like they are ‘cooking’ again.

How can we connect this to our lives?

We know that we are brought into this world to reach shlemut, completion. We can say that we are like ‘semi-cooked’ food trying to reach completion by doing Mitzvot and following the Torah HaKdosha. Just like the pot of food on Shabbat, we all need to be continuing in the Bishul (cooking) itself. We need to be connected to a permanent link of fire to reach that cooking perfection. Our Neshama yells everyday that it wants to get closer to Hashem and dive into a world of Torah and Mitzvot (only)!

When we unplug ourselves from the Torah, from minyanim, from Tefillin in the morning, from wearing appropriate length skirts, etc., we are really cooling ourselves down and stopping ourselves from being in the direction to completion.

Its like re-routing ourselves off the GPS directions.

B’H we should realize it’s a big zchut to be given the Torah to live by, and it’s an even bigger zchut to have Hashem always there for us that we can simply close our eyes and ask for whatever we want. We contstatnly need to plug into Hashem Himself, and we can only accomplish that through consuming spiritually, that means to listen to Torah classes or simply read Tehillim. Any connection is good connection.

Judaism=Think.

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