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Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Levi Yitzchok ben Raizel, the beautiful 22 year old yeshiva bachur that was horribly stabbed at 770 yesterday. May Hashem send him complete healing b’riut hanefesh and b’riut haguf among all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, Amenb’.
“And you shall love Hashem, your G-d, with all your heart and all your soul and all your resources” (Devarim, 6:15). Masechet Avot teaches there are three levels of love of Hashem: with the heart, soul and resources.
Love must not be reliant upon something or come as a result of receiving something. It must be an intrinsic bond that is unconditional and creates unity; ahavah = one. For most of us love of Hashem begins to emerge out of condition and in time elevates to unconditional love. We recognize where all of life’s gifts originate and how kind HaKadosh Baruch Hu is with us. As a result, our awareness of His presence is sharpened and leads to a deeper understanding that all of these gifts are an expression of Hashem’s love and kindness to us.
Every good idea, every thought, every feeling, our body, our soul, every small detail… our children, our spouse, our family, our money… everything is a gift.
Think about it. Where did all that we have come from? Often we falsely believe that we earned it all with the help of Hashem. But no‼ He gave, gives and will continue to bestow life’s gifts to us. We didn’t help at all!
It’s time to admit how dependent we are on the Borei Olam. Humbleness is not just a virtue, it is connecting to the truth of existence; the only truth. Everything belongs to Hashem, the Melech HaOlam. We are simply a mere guardian of all that we are given and are summoned to use it to serve Hashem and increase our Emuna!
