On the 16th of Tamuz The Jewish people experienced their biggest descent. After receiving the Torah and experiencing miracle after miracle they still lost their grip on faith, and sinned with the Golden Calf. This was a transgression of horrendous proportions which made us fall very low. Nevertheless there is no descent without an ascent. The only reason we fall is to get up and reach a higher place than the one we were before.
This is the Paradox of this month and the lesson is that we have to learn to see in the dark. Seeing is something that requires light, it is precisely in the darkest moments that the most light can be generated.
Take for example daylight, the sun is shining and everything is bright, but you do not perceive it as such because everything is light. But take a pitch black room and light a candle, all you see is light.
Kabbalah explains that more of G-d’s surrounding light has entered the world when light comes out of darkness. A new light has been revealed that didn’t exist before.
So when we go through darkness in our lives, and we all do, and we have been able to grow and expand from this experience, a new level of relationship with G-d has emerged in which one has deepened, wizened,and achieved a potential that we didn’t have before.
At this point the concealed good in what seemed as darkness will emerge and will become a revealed good.
Through our stumbling and our suffering G-d gives us the opportunity to see the good that hides in the ordeals and dark pits of life.
To see in the dark means to learn to see the good in every situation that we encounter. Perhaps this is the lesson we had to learn with the fall of the Golden Sin, it’s repair gave us the priceless gift to see in the dark.
May H”S bless you always with open and revealed good and may we only see the light that is always present even when it’s all dark.
Some excerpts taken from “Two Kinds of Good” by Sarah Schneider
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