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Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the quick and complete recovery and healing of Faiga Zissel bat Zlota Tzipporah, a four year old who drowned in a bathtub on Thursday evening in Yerushalayim. Her condition is extremely serious. In the zechut of Chodesh Adar, in the zechut of all of the outpouring of tehillim and shmirat halashon that people from all around the world have taken upon themselves, may Faiga Zissel bat Zlota Tzipporah merit a refuah shleimah, refuat hanefesh v’refuat haguf amongst all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, amen.
The Ba’al Shem Tov HaKadosh illuminates on the importance of living b’simcha and teaches that happiness is at the central core of every Jew’s life. This teaching was not bounded only to those times where we engage in mitzvot and charitable deeds. It extends to every thought, deed and word that flows from any Jewish person at any time. Being that Hashem is everywhere, k’vodo ma’aleh olam, we must find happiness everywhere and at all times.
Through simple contemplation of the enormous irreplaceable task given to the Jewish nation which is to co-create and rectify the world, we are lead to the main reason why we should live joyfully. According to the AriZal life awards us with an immeasurable gift of returning the lost holy sparks back to their source on high, thus bringing harmony and realigning creation, as it were.
Difficulties, hardships and challenges in life simply speaking are times when Hashem’s light in constricted. This light, an analogy of revealed good, is trapped within husks, klipot which awaits to be redeemed and returned back to its source (a deep complex Kabbalistic teaching on how creation began and unfolds by redeeming the holy sparks embedded in husks in creation). Essentially it is just like redeeming a prisoner from its captives and returning him back home. How is this done? Simply put: by seeing beauty in the ugliness of the world, by focusing on Hashem’s ‘good intentions’ behind all circumstances.
Reconnected to its source, more of Hashem’s light is revealed and Divine mercy shines more brightly bringing with it a sweetening of judgments. So much more to be learned… in tomorrow’s lesson.
