We r instructed in this weeks parsha to choose life over death………let’s repeat that sentence, we r INSTRUCTED…..to choose life over death! how lowly does g-d think of us (r”l), doesn’t he trust us to chose life over death based on the simple fact that we are the highest form of intelligence on the face of this earth (well most of us are……… and even the others still rank pretty high) so why do we have to be commanded to do such a thing????????????
Let’s see if I can get outta this one.
Naturally speaking, we should be absolutely petrified of the retribution we will suffer [and we WILL suffer]
And so, hashem did a chessed with us and he took this natural fright away from us, in order to LET US LIVE! however we can now come and complain to him, that we never have a chance of doing what’s right, cuz he deprived us from our natural, defense from bad. right? wrong, cuz all he did was take away the exaggerated fear we would have had, and he left us with the ability to work on ourselves and reach a balanced fear, which will on the one hand stop us from sinning, yet on the other still allow us to roam this earth freely.
Same goes for death.
Naturally speaking we should be so scared of death that we would not be able to live! (so witty!!!!!!) we would be so scared of the idea that our life could end at any given moment, that even while being alive, for all intents a purposes we would be dead, “dead man walking” would become the norm. And so hashem did a chessed with us and removed that natural fright from us. Once again giving us the ability to work on ourselves and get to the level where we have a healthy balance between fearing death and living life. Why should we wanna fear death? once again as a tool to help us do right, if we realize that at any given moment we might be on the next train (or plane) to the next world, we will be more careful with how we spend our time down here.
We must choose death, but more importantly we must choose life, we must realize that hahsem never intended us to be so scared of death that we will not be able to live our lives, he just intended us to fear death so that we should not sin, sounds simple but not so easy to implement, SO not simple that hashem had to make a seemingly ridiculous (r”l) demand of us. CHOOSE LIFE!!!!