Dvar Torah for Elul
Based on Likutey Moharan 21
What do you do if someone is after you, if someone one wants, God forbid,
to kill you? How can you save yourself?
For most of us reading this, such a situation is, thank God, never going
to happen. On second thought, maybe, just maybe, it's already happening.
Most people tend to consider their spiritual challenges as being limited
to the spiritual arena. Not that we are challenged only in our spiritual
endeavors, like davening (praying), trying to perform a mitzvah
or overcoming a temptation. We're challenged in our mundane affairs as
well: will we "let slip" a piece of lashon hara (gossip), or take
the extra change the cashier mistakenly gave us? No. It's not the challenges
that we limit. It is their results. We consider the effects of the success
or, God forbid, failure as being limited merely to the challenge at hand.
This is not the case.
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