Our perspective is the key to our happiness
A s I describe in my article about Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz in this issue the ALS that has taken hold of his body requires him to communicate differently from the way in which others do. He uses his eyes to form words on the computer which then generates a voice that verbalizes those words for others to hear.
Watching Reb Yitzi’s eyes channel his neshamah’s thoughts I was reminded of the well-known Targum Onkelos that translates the words in Bereishis (2:7) “Vayehi ha’adam l’nefesh chayah — Man became a living soul” as “V’havas b’Adam l’ruach mimalilah — And it was a speaking spirit within Man.” Reb Yitzi’s eyes which people tend to regard as the “windows of the soul” through which others peer into a person’s internal world are the vehicles for speech which per the Targum is the defining element of the soul.
When I visited Reb Yitzi who is a prolific mechadeish of Torah thoughts through his weekly divrei Torah on the parshah and haftarah I asked if he could send me a Chanukah insight developed especially for our readers. Here straight from his neshamah to yours is an insight not only into Chanukah but into the great light aflame within Yosef Yitzchak ben Bracha yachlimeihu Hashem v’yirapeihu:
The way that our parshiyos are set up we always read about Yosef on Chanukah. And since everything in Torah is exact even what our great sages enacted we must ask:
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