Hey dear reader! Eli here.
Let’s start this written episode with wishing you and yours a wonderful Shabbos and a joyous Purim!
With great thanks to Hashem, I recently married and putting out entertaining and meaningful video content for The Late Parsha Show has been challenging on a few different ends.
With the support of my eishes chayil, I am continuing to work on producing content in the forms of music, video, and writing, alongside learning and of course only in ever increasing measure.
Here’s some Chassidic pre Purim pondering I wrote this morning based on some Purim Chassidus and mainly a sicha on the Parsha I think about a lot.
As always feel free to reach out with questions and comments here or at elitzvimusic@gmail.
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It is vital that you understand that you are.
Read that sentence again.
You are vital.
We need you.
Who’s “we”?
Quite literally everyone.
G-d first of course.
…and by extension quite literally every being and every creature needs you. All aspects of existence depend on you.
This may sound daunting but no, this doesn’t mean you are alone in this.
Quite the contrary.
It all depends on me too. You need to be your essential you. I need to be me.
Approaching Purim, it’s actually time to take off the masks we may have been wearing and to celebrate the one beneath it.
The mask that we celebrate is the mask of the body. Your body, your physical body, was chosen and it is chosen everyday anew.
Your soul is an actual part of G-d and needs no choosing.
Your body though -despite being like any other- is chosen.
You are cherished, loved, and adored by your maker, the creator of all, for no reason within the rational framework.
This means there is nothing that can change this love. Ever.
What do you do with this love?
Well first of all,
You don’t HAVE to do anything.
You will still be loved.
You remain important and cherished. Your mere existence is treasured by the creator.
However, doing nothing doesn’t help you enjoy actually feeling the love so much. (and please remember that being a part of G-d you have the ability to cause pain to your lover chas vesholom.)
So, assuming you want to do something, I ask again, what do you do with this love?
Well, you can certainly think deeply about it and fall in love on your end. I call this type of “falling” in love- falling higher.
In fact your love can become so rapturous that one can even expire from lovesickness. But note that although a blissful experience, this is not to be our aim at all. Because as mentioned, your physical body is chosen.
So if you get to the point of lovesickness where all you want is to be absorbed in G-d and no longer wear even just the mask of the body, you remember that your body is important.
We have the mission of caring for our soul; the part of G-d that we carry -and carries us- by allowing it fullest expression THROUGH the physical.
How? Through your physical act of love for another soul.
Even for the body of that soul.
Taking care of someone else’s physicality.
Your physical effort and exertion in studying Torah and doing the mitzvos that come your way & your enthusiasm in creating more opportunity for more mitzvos.
Your physical acts are vessels that contain the spiritual energy of Holiness.
Holiness is G-dly.
G-dliness is not limited to spirituality at all.
G-d wants you.
In a physical body.
In this physical world.
And together in love we bring light to it.
This light is appreciated by all, and it reveals what was concealed with the “lights off”. It reveals that the world is not a scary, jungle of chaos…
It is Hashem’s peaceful, beautiful, delightful garden, where everyone and all of existence recognizes that the One above is the One below too.
Sooner than we think we will hear new insight from Melech Hamoshiach and fall higher into love with G-d.
Now.
