For the Ilui Neshama of Avraham ben Ester ZT’L.
A Ziploc bag can remind you of a picnic in 5th
grade with your family on Shabbat afternoon. A Ziploc bag can remind you of
that time you threw up on the way to Upstate New York going skiing with your
friends during High School. A Ziploc bag can remind you of your child’s adorable
little lunch. And on and on…
But how can we see a Ziploc bag through the eyes of a Jew?
If we put those little packets people hand out of Tehillim, Tikkun Klali,
Tefillat HaDerech, Perek Shirah, Igeret HaRamban etc. in a Ziploc bag and then
we cover that bag with another and then another and another up until five or
six or even nine bags, will we see whats inside the bag clearly? No, we won’t.
We might be able to see a letter or recognize what the book
is called from the color, but it will not remain clear until we take out all
the bags from within eachother. What does this have to do with anything? The
process of Lahzor B’Tshuva is not as
simple as it looks.
Lahzor BTshuva is exactly like an onion and the Ziploc bag.
When a Jew falls into the hands of the yetzer
hara to sin, they apply to their Neshama (soul) this bag or an extra onion
layer to seal off the Neshama (soul) from Hashem’s light and closeness. This
spiritual light that Hashem constantly brings into the world is the source of
Kedusha (purity) and Simha (happiness) for all humanity. Therefore, the only
way to start FEELING that Kedusha is by doing Mitzvot, reading Tehillim,
praying, answering Kaddish, etc. By doing these acts we peel off all the layers
of onion we applied to ourselves and all those little bags we are using to
spiritually choke ourselves.
BH beginning now we
can look forward to Rosh Chodesh (today) and Shabbat Kodesh (tomorrow) to help us peel off these
spiritually negative layers of impurity.
Chodesh tov.
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