DAY 25, NETZACH OF NETZACH (Shabbos)
This is the day for recalling the main principles of emunah, especially that Hashem is aware, involved, and responsive to us and to our choices.
Focus on how Hashem is leading the world to its ultimate destiny. Figure out where you want to be in this picture. (For instance, both Pharaoh and Moshe were instrumental in taking us to the great moment of the splitting of the sea, but it is better for you to be Moshe than to be Pharaoh....)
Netzach means prevailing. If you have dealt with your challenges and let your higher self prevail, there is still one battle to fight, the one against pride. Don’t let it ruin your victories. It can distance you from Hashem and from other people, and distort your vision of what reality is really about.
WITH PEOPLE
Try to use your influence over other people by encouraging them to see the more eternal picture. Sometimes just sharing a bit of what you have seen changes things.
E.g. – Today I attended a funeral held for a young Argentinian fellow who volunteered to fight for Israel and was killed in battle. He has no family here, so an announcement was made telling the public that there is no one here to give him his final respects. Thousands of people were there. I had been to 2 military funerals over the years and I never saw anything remotely like this one.
The Sephardi chief rabbi, Rav Yitzchak Yosef spoke. He quoted the Zohar that narrates the deaths of Aharon’s two sons, who entered the sanctuary to offer incense offering without the proper authority to do so out of their longing to experience Hashem. It says, “You should shed a tear for the tragedy of their deaths, but have some joy for knowing where they have reached now in their deaths.”
This is true of this young soldier. It can be true of you, not by dying (which is not what Hashem wants of you) but by living with an eye towards eternity when you make choices and face challenges.
Back to Rav Frisch.
Doing business in good faith, being honest when arguing a point in a debate about principles or torah ideas. Don’t try to win at the expense of truth.
LIMB- RIGHT LEG
TIME- MORNING
PRAYER- BREICH ALENU, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION THAT HASHEM FORGIVE ANY MISTAKES YOU MADE IN BUSINESS DEALINGS AND THAT YOU ARE DOING TSHUVAH, SO HE SHOULD NOT HOLD BACK HIS ABUNDANT GIVING BECAUSE OF YOU
HOLY NAME- YKVK TZIVAKOS
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