Fwd: The Coverup

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From: Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman <webadmin@kehotpublicationsociety.ccsend.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 8:20 AM
Subject: The Coverup
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I S S U E 830 Parshat Balak / July 18, 2024 / 12 Tammuz 5784 Dear Friend, On the 12th of Tammuz of 1927, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, was miraculously granted freedom by the Soviet Communists after having been arrested for his "crime" to preserve Judaism throughout the Soviet empire and sentenced to death. The actual release took place on Tammuz 13, and the two days are celebrated as a "festival of liberation" by Jewish people all around the world. Tammuz 12 is also Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak's birthday. This is a very special and joyous day. Please mark this day by dedicating a book by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak. Here is a link. Thank you. An insight by the Rebbe on parshat Balak, selected from our Daily Wisdom, by Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky. The Coverup He [Balak] sent messengers to Balaam son of Be'or – to Petor on the river, the land of his people – to call for him, saying, "A people has come out of Egypt, and behold, they have covered the view of the land, and they are stationed opposite me." (Num. 22:5) The consistent laws of nature obscure G-d's presence in the world. Nature thus "covers" Divinity, and it is our Divine mission to reveal the Divinity behind nature's façade. As we gradually spread Divine consciousness, we are, so to speak, substituting one cover for another, "covering" the world with Divine consciousness instead of letting nature cover over G-d's presence. Allegorically, this is what the evil King Balak was afraid of: the Jewish people were "covering the land" with Divine consciousness, threatening the power of evil. What enabled the Jewish people to do this was the fact that they "came out of Egypt," meaning that the tribulations of exile had prepared them for their unique spiritual destiny. Similarly, the spiritual consciousness that we attain by overcoming the challenges of our present exile enables us to reveal G-d's presence in the world today, preparing us for when "the world will be filled with knowledge of G-d as water covers the seabed." --Daily Wisdom Volume 3 May G-d grant resounding victory and peace in the Holy Land. Gut Shabbos, Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman Kehot Publication Society Please donate to our current campaigns. Inspiring insights on the Torah Portion from the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Translated and adapted by Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky, and produced by Chabad House Publications of California, Daily Wisdom summarizes each daily Torah reading and presents an original insight based on the Rebbe's teachings.

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