The continued slumber weakens people's involvement in the pursuit of holiness, it prevents the Lights from being revealed externally, it causes great pains that are intended to push us to stir and awaken.
The secrets of the Torah are what open the eyes to exit the constricted worldview, the מוחין דקטנות (small-mindedness) that leaves us dreaming, and to look clearly with a penetrating view of the current generation and current events. It pours light on what has occurred in recent generations; the successes and the failures; the great souls and their utter confusion. It offers great clarity how all of current events - small things as well as major events - are all pointing in the same direction. They are all an awakening of the גאולה (redemption), to awaken from the slumber of exile to the light of the Schechina, to the outpouring of holiness which is awaiting us from Heaven, from our Father, our Shepherd, to save His nation and to bless His lot.
The secrets of the Torah are what open the eyes to exit the constricted worldview, the מוחין דקטנות (small-mindedness) that leaves us dreaming, and to look clearly with a penetrating view of the current generation and current events. It pours light on what has occurred in recent generations; the successes and the failures; the great souls and their utter confusion. It offers great clarity how all of current events - small things as well as major events - are all pointing in the same direction. They are all an awakening of the גאולה (redemption), to awaken from the slumber of exile to the light of the Schechina, to the outpouring of holiness which is awaiting us from Heaven, from our Father, our Shepherd, to save His nation and to bless His lot.
So is it Gd that decides how constricted we are that day or our own lazy habits?
ReplyDeleteIt is our decision, based on the parameters of how much is available to us on a particular day.
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