BS’D
Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Reuven Pesach ben Henya. May he receive a good report from the doctors today giving him a clean state of health and may there be no more suffering for him or anyone in Klal Yisrael, Amen!
Shabbat is a day of joy bringing with it renewed spiritual meaning and insight into our routine lives. Do you have a deep desire to reconnect? The simple act of restraining oneself from creative activity on Shabbat builds space within to achieve a closer bond to Borei Olam.
To welcome the Shechina, which symbolizes perfection of unity and wholeness, our emotions within and our physical homes without must achieve a state of Shalom (peace). Through the process of forming harmony externally and internally we draw Hashem’s sukkat Shalom to shelter and embrace us.
How do we engage in this process? When we transform our mode of thinking from this world to the next; through expanding our consciousness from a state of constriction whereby we think in terms of this world and bring ourselves to contemplate the World to Come. Physically by actively making Shabbat we delve further into this expanded mode of consciousness and thus build harmony between the spiritual and physical.
The inherent message embedded in the intimate song we sing every erev Shabbat Shir HaShirim is that we long for that time when HaKadosh Baruch Hu’s name will be openly revealed and glorified by all. Our soul will not be quenched until then, the ultimate future, when Klal Yisrael will be totally attached to Hashem Yitborach.
In spite of the fact that we currently live under physical externals we still never lose our emuna that it is all an allusion and though not readily revealed to us, we are One with Hashem. Our yearning is to perceive this Oneness in its revealed state without illusions.
