💡 Think:
Throughout the month of Elul, this current month before Rosh Hashanah, the entire month is permeated with the energy of King in the Field.
During Elul, the Divine presence is here. We’re in the middle of our daily grind - inured to the divine wonder of existence by the dross physicality of life in the field… And so, G-d comes out to us… All power, energy and immaculate vibes of Yom Kippur are on fully display right now… Just in milieu of daily life and not of high holidays. All we need to do, is take advantage of the moment…
There’s a story I love:
When Rochel Leah Blachman was an older lady, she was told by the doctors that she needed surgery. It was a preventative operation, one that if done now, would prevent potentially more serious issues later… But she was an older woman, and the thought of surgery frightened her. Despite the pleas of her children, she would not budge… until one day, out of the blue, she told them she would.
The children were mystified.
Calling her brother, in America, she explained her reasoning: A dream.
As child, Rochel Leah had grown up in the village of Lubavitch. Her father R’ Chonye Marazov, had been a close assistant of Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe.
In the dream, a half remembered experience came to life:
As a child, one Shabbat afternoon, she played a game with other kids in the village. They’d pushed the large tables of synagogue together, climbed up, and spent time jumping from one table to the next. The boys went, and then the girls… And then the tables were moved apart. And so they jumped again… further and further the tables were pulled apart.
It was Rochel Leah’s turn. But the gap between the two tables overwhelmed her. The kids in the room cheered her on… but the fear of the distance felt too great.
And then, suddenly, the Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, walked in. The kids, realizing that such games were less than appropriate for a synagogue, all ran away… leaving Rochel Leah frozen, stranded, on the table.
The Rebbe look around, noting the little girl stranded alone on the table… and approached her.
”If I give you my hand,” he said. “Will you jump?”
And so, she took his hand, and she jumped from one table to the other.
The dream to her made clear: Everything would be ok.
In Elul, G-d sees us stranded in our mess, he makes himself abundantly accessible to us… we only need to take ahold of the hand and jump.
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