ok this has nothing to do with the parsha, but I was just drinking some schnapps for lunch today and i remembered a vertel Rabbi Frand said by this year’s Aseres Yemei Teshuva drasha.
He said it’s interesting that the word for life in Hebrew, is ????. Although ?? is a word, and that means alive, but the word for LIFE is ????, almost like ??, but in the plural context, seemingly. Why? Because for a yid, life is not life, if one lives in his own little world of self. His own ?’ ????, minding his own business. Life is about more than just YOU. It’s about another yid, ANY yid, together WITH you. THAT’S chaim, that’s how a yid lives!
Now, my friends, let’s drink to that.
L’Chaim yidden, L’Chaim!