This week’s Parshah is a most important one – it is the first command to a Jew – it is interesting to know the exact wording – it is not a revelation – it is not, “I am God” – rather it is “Go” – “Go” is what life is all about – however there are two kinds of going – there is the foolish aspiration, what we call success – in other words, ‘try that someone should become jealous of you’ – then there is the infinite Go – “leave the foolish aspiration of those whose vestige of pride is in shaming – and enter into the infinite, namely when you have the courage like Abraham, that when God says “Go,” you leave behind not only your father’s house, not only your birthplace, not only your culture, but even the very spiritual achievements you spent a lifetime building” (for Abraham was 75 having already convinced much of the world about the greatness of God etc.) for unless you are willing to Go – you are stuck
By zevi770 · November 14, 2016