Shabbos Drasha: Parshas Yisro
Our minds are like a basket to absorb certain ideas. If a person does not have the right basket for a certain idea it wizzes right by. The idea your about to read is one that will need a change in thought process. The need to think “outside the box”. Why? b/c we have superficial minds that cannot comprehend such extreme ideas, but for once listen and understand and then decide what to do. For if it at least enters the basket then at least you can get a better look at what you may be accepting.
In the previous parshios klal yisroel wittnesed many miracles. They were so great that a shifcha by krias yam suf saw more than yichezkel ben buzzi saw, where talking more revealing than the ma”asa merkava itself. But we notice also a trend in the reaction of klal yisroel to all the gashmiasdik obstacles in their way. Their reaction is one of fear, one of isolation and the need for help. Klal Yisroel just witnessed amazing miracles and hashem promised them he would cont. wonders to ultimately bring them to mamod har sinai. Why then were they alway camplaining, why then did they make and worship the eigel hazahav??
Ill answer through another question: Famous question why did hashem not let klal yisroel go derech plishtim, it would have taken them right to eretz yisroel. Why were they taken in such a round about way? Hashem realized, yes theyd seen all amazing miracles, but hashem still created a teva and you still have bechira and as long as the connection bet. you and hashem insnt in you your doomed to fall no matter what youve seen. Ergo, being that klal yisroel hadnt yet seen the torah and learnt it they would have as soon as they entered israel gon to this vinyard this one to that field and get on with the rest of their lives. Hashem made them go through the desert and learn the torah for forty yrs straight. They woke up heard shiur, in the afternoon again heard shuir and then chazra…They learnt it so much that it was nivlugh b’aivarim! It was seeping through their limbs, their bones! All the time im hearing of an amazing miracle that took place. Emails being passed around, “AMAZING STORY THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR
LIFE”. The problem is it does….but for how long? A week if your lucky. The idea is that the torah has to be you, your mitzius has to be torah, otherwise teva is like gravity if you arent constintley pushing up yuor doomed to fall. Klal yiroel who had 49 day of climbing the depths of kedusha and imersion couldent withstand their nisyonos with out constant limud torah all the more so we who are constantley involed with hevel havalim, and havent seen those miracles….how are we going to withstand our nisyonos? Answer is simple, hashem gave us a tool: The Torah. There is no other. You can look at things and through them appreciate the torahs truth and widom but the central tool is the torah. Logicaly hashem wouldnt make it so easy that when we see a miracle that we no longer have the same bechira, rather the miracle is a gift as a BOOST to come to the realization or god and as a result learn his ways and his path of truth.
Remember at everypoint in a persons life a human being has bechirah, it is the only thing that makes us human. At any moment we can choose wtvr our hearts desire. First step is to think about life, and hold nothing back. Rem. you only get one chance to live why not find out the best way to live it. Youl say but my avodas hashem is good enough….some times just good enough in your one time life just isnt good enough.
By: someone who cares. (i really do, and it is something that bothers me not from a critical view but a worrysome view)