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Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the yeshuot and nechamot, hatzlachot and brachot of Klal Yisrael. We should learn to love, unite and return to our Divine mission without sorrow or hardship and mend our ways to merit the building of our 3rd and final Beit HaMikdash b’mheria, b’yameinu, Amen.
As we learn to live with Emuna we need to adjust the way we relate to Hashem. Most of us relate to Hashem based on condition. For example, a person wakes up daily to a sunny morning washes his face, drinks his coffee and goes to work. He expects life to run smoothly without any ‘unforeseen circumstances’ and never questions ‘why’ it is so.
Let’s take this further. He is told by his boss that he is due for a raise and will be awarded a great sum retroactive. Wow. Does he ask why or how things became this way? Certainly not. However what if he woke up to a morning where his car broke down on the way to work? Or his stomach hurt? Or he got laid off from work? His first reaction is why… what happened here?
When life takes us where we ‘want’ to go, we never stop to ask ‘why’. It is only when Hashem changes the course of our lives to our ‘disliking’ that we begin to question His ways. This brings forth a most important point in the way we relate to Hashem; one which we should work to change.
There is a point in our brain that defines the way we relate to reality; it is called koach hamedameh (imagination). This starting point posits a theory on reality. Our presumptions on life were formed by many factors; childhood, key mentors and surrounding, science, etc. These assumptions are very personal and have an extremely powerful effect on our lives.
Imagination is fed by our personal desire to want a ‘good life’. From the moment we open our eyes to the moment we fall asleep, the main drive is to enjoy life. This desire commands our lives and eventually becomes the only way we relate to life; it becomes part of our imagination. Consequently the only messages we receive from our brain (imagination) are those planted by us, by our desire to have it good. Tomorrow we’ll discuss the effect this has.
