Shavuah Tov! Wishing everyone a blessed week full of open and revealed blessings.
This week’s Parasha “Teitzei” ( go out) continues Moses second farewell address to the Jewish people. Most of it is dedicated to the laws governing the behavior of Jewish soldiers when they go out to war.
Moses told the Jewish people:”If you go out to war upon your enemies, G-d will deliver your enemy into your hands, and you will take back your enemy’s captives.” (Devarim 21:10)
Although the Parashah is giving us moral laws on how to deal with physical wars between people, Chassidut teaches us that everything that happens in the physical realm also happens in the spiritual realm. We all have internal battles within ourselves.
When we grapple with evil, we are “going out to war.” We are going out of our true selves, for waging war is unnatural. Our Divine soul’s nature gravitates towards peace, infinite Divine consciousness is embedded within us before we descend to this world.
Since this is our natural being, we have an advantage over evil. G-d only created evil so we can vanquish it by exercising our free will to do what is G-dly and within our true selves.
Judaism teaches that everyone is good, our nature is good from day one. The only problem is that in order to exercise our goodness there has to be a counterpart that we must fight so we can be who we really are. For this reason H”S assures that “G-d will deliver your enemy into your hands.”
The Torah teaches us that in order to win the war against evil, we must identify with our Divine soul and in this way we will be able to be backed by the full power of G-d’s holiness.
Some excerpts taken from “Daily Wisdom” insights on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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