Nov. 8, 2023

Parshas Chayei Sarah: Love Is Blind

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Season 5

Do you often grapple with the unseen, untouchable divinity that seems to permeate your life and the decisions you make? This episode invites you on a transformative journey, where we revisit and dissect powerful narratives from the Torah. We witness the epic showdown between Nimrod and Abraham, underlining the significance of worshipping the 'invisible God.' We unravel how this commitment to an entity we cannot see yet profoundly feel can guide us to discern right from wrong, shaping our core values.

Taking our discourse further, we delve into an enlightening comparison between the soul and Hakodosh Baruchu, both entities that can 'see' without being seen. We invite you to question the source of true satisfaction in life. Is it rooted in worldly possessions, or does it lie in something more profound - wisdom, relationships, peace, perhaps? Join us to contemplate the eternal aspects of existence that provide a deeper sense of fulfillment. We encourage you to choose the 'invisible path' - the path of the immortal soul that promises enduring peace and fulfillment.

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Like a strong box fan blowing away the smoke screens of the Satan.

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This reoccurring theme in the Torah could really give us a way to get rid of the Satan's smoke screen and see clearly what is right and what is wrong.

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The following conclusion seems to pervade and permeate the entire Torah and divide the Torah's protagonists and antagonists into two separate categories.

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And that is even from the very beginning when Nimrod wants Avromavino Abraham to bow down to the sun god, to the wind god, to the rain god.

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And after making, does Abraham a mockery of Nimrod and eventually says I only bow down to the invisible god, chuck me into the furnace and he is saved by Hakkotash Baruchu.

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We see that Avrom puts it down for us that we serve the invisible god, but Nimrod idolatry seems to always be after the seeable, touchable god.

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It seems the very root of the agil hazav, one of the ultimate debacles in our past, was we needed to see or touch or feel this entity, this golden calf.

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But we serve the invisible god.

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We strive for the builti and niret, that which cannot be seen but can definitely be felt, and felt very strongly.

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The Gemara tells us that there are strong similarities between the soul and Hakkotash Baruchu, that they can both see but cannot be seen.

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It seems to be one of the constitutional points of Avaitis Hashem that we subjugate ourselves to the invisible god, but to that that we can feel, we chase after, and it even seems like a basic idea in humanity that what really gives us a sense of satisfaction in life are things that cannot be touched, things deeper than this world, things that are eternal, more than just money or goods or services.

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But, khakma, wisdom cannot be touched.

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Relationships, love, peace.

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These are things that are eternal, matters of the soul, matters of the divine.

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So, when you're stuck and you're not sure what to do, one of the paths is following touchable, very immediate, gratifying ideas and practices, and the other path is following the invisible and the deep-rooted pleasure of the eternal soul.

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Choose the second one, choose to follow the invisible path.

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Then is the path of Akhadash Varukh, the one that brings ultimate satisfaction and peace.