CLD #798

There are three certain types of Mitzvot that an individual needs to pay for during their lifetime. A Mezuzah, Sefer Torah and Tefillin are the three major items of Kedusha (purity) that every individual will go through in their life, whether they are paying for their child’s tefillin, or their own homes’ mezuzah, etc.

What can we learn from this? There is a certain difference between a Sefer Torah and tefillin and mezuzot. A Sefer Torah is certainly much easier to check to see if its pasul or kasher (kosher or invalid). When many American Jews come to Israel for the year to learn in yeshiva, they send their tefillin in to check to see if it needs improvement, if the parchment is not melted or the black ink is still painted on well. Also there is a certain minhag (custom) even written in halacha (Jewish law) to check one’s mezuzot in their home during the Jewish month of Elul.

However, when it comes to a Sefer Torah, the individual just sees through the year’s Torah reading if the Sefer Torah is kosher or not! What does this teach us? Especially in our time of Shovavim, Tu Bishvat, Parashat Beshalah (with the exile from Egypt), we need to remind ourselves the power of the Torah. This means that when an individual has a minimum hour or two of Torah learning everyday, they have the power of Hashem’s influence to revive them from any impurity or any type of confusion. In the end of the day being clear in your goals is the key to rise spiritually in your Avodat Hashem (service of Hashem). With Tu Bishvat’s entrance into the world, we should also remind ourself that the direction going upwards is clear and definite for a tree. So how much more so with us!

Be’ezrat Hashem we should enjoy Shabbat Kodesh, Shabbat Shirah and a beautiful Tu Bishvat!

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