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Yisro: How much do you want it?
Why was the story of Yisro placed immediately before Matan Torah? R’ Chaim Mintz suggests that there are things we can learn from Yisro that we all must incorporate into our lives to be able to truly accept the Torah:
Yisro was a prince in Midyan, living a pleasant life. But he was willing to give it all up, go live in the desert, and join a people he didn’t even know, so that he could hear the Divine truth.
We see how much Yisro wanted to be able to accept the Torah. We see how much the Torah meant to him, and how much he was willing to sacrifice to attain it.
We are lucky that we were born Jewish, and that Torah was pretty much given to us on a silver platter. But we cannot allow that to lead to sense to complacency. We must always stay hungry for more, stay driven to attain new heights. If we truly want to delve deeper, if the Torah is important to us, and if we are willing to sacrifice other things that we might also want, will we be able to attain it.
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