The Yamim Tovim are over and we’re back to “real life.”
But what exactly is real life?
During every Succos we are challenged to believe that Hashem can and will protect us wherever we are; no less in a flimsy wood or cloth hut open to the elements than in a fortified garrisoned stone castle. And it is a challenge. Our eyes are telling us the castle is a million times stronger and safer. But that’s an illusion. The wooden hut over which Hashem spreads His protection is the safest place on earth far safer than that castle. Our eyes tell us one thing. Our heart and soul tell us another.
The word “reality” is from the 1540s originally a legal term in the sense of “fixed property.” The use of “reality” to mean “real existence” is from the 1640s.
It’s hard to see clearly in This World. Forget Van Gogh and Rembrandt. Hashem is the best Artist in the world the Master of making the unimportant look important and illusion look real. How often do we attribute great importance to the ephemeral things of This World while nearly and neatly ignoring those that are our tickets to the Next World?
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