Sunday, January 20, 2013

When You're Lost: 7

As a person surveys her life she will see that there have been many days which seem to have been with no purpose. Most of her life seems to be constantly switching between days of inspired action and times of sluggish inaction.

Those days which seem to be purposeless are days of Emunah. These are the times that a person must accept that she has a reason for being alive, even if she does not understand why. At the end of the life of Avraham Avinu the Torah tells us ואברהם זקן בא בימים, and Avraham was old he came with his days. He came before Hashem even with those days that seemed to have no purpose. His Emunah told him they were with reason, even if he lacked any understanding. בימים (with his days) has the identical Gematria (numerical value) as אמונה (Emunah).

בנים (children) also shares the same Gematria. The entire existence of the Children of Israel relies on Emunah. The creation of the world was predicated on God's lusting to have a place to dwell below. A lust is not something that can be explained logically. It is what it is. Emunah is knowing this and thereby becoming one with Hashem.

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