Shavuah Tov! Wishing everyone a blessed week.
This week’s Parashah “Re’ei” means “See,” as in the opening verse “See! I am giving to you today a blessing and a curse.”(Devarim 11:26)
To explain this verse I want to share with you an experience I had two years ago in Israel. My husband and I had just moved to NY from Florida, big change! And I hadn’t found a Synagogue I felt comfortable in. I had always been a Synagogue goer on Shabbat, but now it had become very unappealing to me.
My husband and I happened to be in Israel for Parashah Re’ei and it was also Rosh Chodesh Elul, which is the month to prepare for the new year to come before the High Holidays.
That Shabbat morning I decided to stay in the hotel and rest, but something wouldn’t let me. At 7:00 am I was dressed and ready and decided to go to The Synagogue across the street.
A moments after I arrived I saw a beautiful blind girl come into the Shul, she found her spot with no hazle, opened her Siddur (prayer book) which was written in breile and began to pray. I had never been more moved by prayer in my life, and I asked myself “who is blind? This girl or me?” For sure she could see what I couldn’t.
I came back to NY and began going to Shul again, this time I went with a different vision, I was there for G-d, not for me.
“The truth is in the eye of the beholder.”
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