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Daily Chizuk #1374
Weekly Parasha
Direct Delivery: Realizing Hashem Knows Your Address
The pasuk says in this week's parashah Bechukotai that if the Jewish people are following the mitzvot properly, then when they go to war, five of us will pursue a hundred of our enemies and a hundred of us will pursue ten thousand enemies.
Rashi asks, to conform to the ratio here of five pursuing a hundred, which is one to twenty, it should have said that a hundred will pursue two thousand. Why does it say that a hundred will pursue ten thousand? Rashi answers, you can't compare the zechut of many people following the Torah to a few people following it. The zechut of the many is exponentially greater than the zechut of the few.
This example of war is just one of the many places where we see that things happen in this world based on our zechuyot. The more zechuyot we have, the more Heavenly help we get. People who know this are constantly looking for more ways to gain zechuyot.
Whether we get something out of it or not, we should always be looking to gain as many zechuyot as possible.
Shabbat Shalom!!
Rashi asks, to conform to the ratio here of five pursuing a hundred, which is one to twenty, it should have said that a hundred will pursue two thousand. Why does it say that a hundred will pursue ten thousand? Rashi answers, you can't compare the zechut of many people following the Torah to a few people following it. The zechut of the many is exponentially greater than the zechut of the few.
This example of war is just one of the many places where we see that things happen in this world based on our zechuyot. The more zechuyot we have, the more Heavenly help we get. People who know this are constantly looking for more ways to gain zechuyot.
Whether we get something out of it or not, we should always be looking to gain as many zechuyot as possible.
Shabbat Shalom!!
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