| Dear Friend,
We are pleased to share an insight by the Rebbe on parshat Ki Tisa, excerpted from our Daily Wisdom, by Rabbi Moshe Wisnfesky. Monday True Freedom
The Tablets were G-d's handiwork and the script was G-d's script, engraved on the tablets. (Ex. 32:16)
The Ten Commandments were engraved upon the tablets. Our sages point out that the word "engraved" (charut) is related to the word "free" (cherut). Based on this relation, they assert that true freedom is possible only by observing the Torah's rules. But, given its great number of prescriptions and proscriptions, the Torah would seem to be more restrictive than liberating.
The explanation lies in the fact that we are constantly torn between our animal and G-dly natures, each one pulling us in its own direction. Since our Divine nature will never relent, we can be truly free only when our Divine spirit is fully victorious. Our animal nature, once it is refined, realizes that submitting to the Torah's directions is in fact its true desire; its natural state is to be guided and governed by spirituality.
Thus, the Torah's restrictions on our animal nature in fact liberate us, enabling us to actualize our full, Divine potential for spiritual growth and expression. -- Daily Wisdom
Gut Shabbos, Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman Kehot Publication Society
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