#TeamMoshiach
A letter in the scroll, a missing note makes a song incomplete. When one letter in the scroll is missing, or damaged chas v' shalom, it is incomplete.
We are here for a reason, chosen by HaShem, to be part of His plan. It is not a privilege, but a responsibility to make a broken world whole again.
To be part of HaShem's plan we have to have bitachon and emunah, a choice to make the song complete, and not to be a missing letter.
It is a world of difference when we enter Shabbos, leaving the world behind. The Shabbos candles flickering, the table inviting, we are not to touch the light switch, careful to take the meat of the bone, not the other way around. Being vigilant to use the cold water fauset on the right side of the sink, not using our phones, writing, or driving the car, to name some.
Prohibitions are essential and part of Shabbos, but it allows us to achieve the serentity, the kedusha in time, elevation and dignity that are necessary to experience Shabbos. The prohibitions exists to serve the positive obligation to rest.
On the deepest level HaShem controls everything, Shabbos is a time to come closer to the creator of it all, and any act, even something as small as a touch of a light switch contradicts that testamony, the covenant we have with HaShem.
It is the choice to be, the mirror of our inclinations. We were formed by HaShem as unfinished beings to give us the opportunity to create ourselves. Before we were born our neshama has no association with the physical world, we were free of physical limitations, experiencing only the connection to our Infinte Divine source.
When our neshama joins our body before birth, it becomes part of the restrictions and limitations of a physical being, and we can no longer maintain full intergration with the divine infinite reality. The neshama feels a sense of constriction, and even suffocation and feeling at loss, with a natural yearning to return to HaShem.
Our energy, identity and intellect are a physical aspect of our personality, and have a expression in the physical world. Our essential self is not physical, and has only an expression in the world through these physical aspects.
The physical energy, are allowing us to exist as beings separate from HaShem. Through the mitzvos we perform, we are able to reach beyond the limitations of our understanding in connection to the spiritual realm. Through our sense of autonomous identity, we act upon, which determine our own environment and give us a quality of Malchus, and allows us to connect to HaShem. This is the aspect through which we experience free will.
This alone does not define who we are, for without our root connection to HaShem, we would have not free will, or our individuality.
As an individual, having to fulfill the entire mission by ourselves, can be overwelming, and we do have a tendency of giving up, when the task seems impossible. When it comes to the Torah and the mitzvos, it is crucial to know we are all in this together. No Jew can perform all 613 mitzvos by himself. It takes team effort, kohanim, Leviim and Yisroel, men and women, in unity.
Why do we need unity?
We are all constantly searching for connection, through objects and forces around us, when we are not a unity, we can not achieve a single thing. We all are searching for meaning, what we really means is to create order out of disorder, to gain insight in the unknown and to determine movement and behavior.
Why are we so drawn to unity?
Life itself is a search for unity, to a higher end, searching for HaShem is the ultimate unity. Unity is often confused with being together, forming a group of people with the same thoughts and acts the same, we believe that we could live in perfect harmony. In reality unity is a process, where forming a group like- minded is a state of being. Unity is the harmony in diversity.
The challenge of unity is to recognize the strength of different elements that brings us together, and without annihilating anyone's individuality.
When there is love between two people, each person is willing to bond, while respecting each others individuality. This is what HaShem intended when He created us. He provided our reality with an independent existence that masks HaShem's reality, with a distinct objective to use our free will to access our desire to unite with G-dliness.
When we gain more knowledge about our physical reality, we begin to understand and see that there is a Divine Unity, that underlies and gives meaning to everything we do.
So when our neshama unites with our body, it is empowered to carry out its mission in the physical world. Each element in our universe reflects another shade of the Divine, and we united body and soul to create a unity that will begin to spread throughout the entire world.
This is the challenge that we face, to re- unite with HaShem, by first recognizing our neshama within ourselves, by recognizing that HaShem is above and beyond us, by intergrating HaShem into our lives.
Do we ever wonder how heaven meets earth?
The entire process of creation was meant to challlenge us to fulfill this mission, with creating a bridge between our reality and HaShem's reality. By creating a unity, we create a ripple throughout the entire world, uniting all who are fighting each other for thousands of years.
When we all fulfill our mission in unity, we may be zoche to see the coming of the Moshiach!