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Daily Chizuk #1364
Weekly Parasha
Miracles and Comprehension: Staying Strong in Tested Times
Parashat Emor: A Better Life
In the beginning of this week's Parasha, Emor, the Torah speaks about some of the laws that have to do with mourning the loss of a relative. It says, " לא יקרחו קרחה בראשם... ובבשרם לא ישרטו שרטת – The mourner should not make a bald spot on his head or cut into his flesh." These were practices that people who were in extreme anguish would do and Hashem wants His People to be more elevated than that, to understand that the death of a loved one is not a reason to harm himself. When someone passes away, he's not gone. He begins a new existence far superior to the one experienced in this world. It says in Sefer HaYashar, Shaar 12, this world is like an underground cave in comparison to the Next. If someone would be born and live his entire life in a cave, he would think there is nothing else beyond it. If he would be able to walk outside, he would see a beautiful world, larger than he could have ever imagined. That's what our world is like in comparison to the Next. There, it is far bigger and better in every way. A full lifetime here of 120 years is like five minutes in comparison to Olam HaBa. On the day of death, the neshama, which is the essence of a person, is freed from being trapped in the body. A person sees with his neshama, a person thinks with his neshama, a person hears with his neshama. The body is just a casing. The real person never ceases living even for a moment.
Our job here is to understand our purpose and use every minute that we have in the service of Hashem. The better we perform here, the better our lives will be forever. And if we could understand that those who left the world are truly enjoying a much better place, the experience will be easier to deal with.
Shabbat Shalom!!
In the beginning of this week's Parasha, Emor, the Torah speaks about some of the laws that have to do with mourning the loss of a relative. It says, " לא יקרחו קרחה בראשם... ובבשרם לא ישרטו שרטת – The mourner should not make a bald spot on his head or cut into his flesh." These were practices that people who were in extreme anguish would do and Hashem wants His People to be more elevated than that, to understand that the death of a loved one is not a reason to harm himself. When someone passes away, he's not gone. He begins a new existence far superior to the one experienced in this world. It says in Sefer HaYashar, Shaar 12, this world is like an underground cave in comparison to the Next. If someone would be born and live his entire life in a cave, he would think there is nothing else beyond it. If he would be able to walk outside, he would see a beautiful world, larger than he could have ever imagined. That's what our world is like in comparison to the Next. There, it is far bigger and better in every way. A full lifetime here of 120 years is like five minutes in comparison to Olam HaBa. On the day of death, the neshama, which is the essence of a person, is freed from being trapped in the body. A person sees with his neshama, a person thinks with his neshama, a person hears with his neshama. The body is just a casing. The real person never ceases living even for a moment.
Our job here is to understand our purpose and use every minute that we have in the service of Hashem. The better we perform here, the better our lives will be forever. And if we could understand that those who left the world are truly enjoying a much better place, the experience will be easier to deal with.
Shabbat Shalom!!
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