Shavuah Tov!! Wishing everyone a blessed week.
We have just come out from Counting the 49 days of the Omer and receiving the Torah these past two days.
We have been climbing the spiritual mountain in a very conscious way. So what happens today? When there is NOTHING? Well, we need to start practicing everything we’ve gained to the point it is embedded in us.
In this week’s Torah portion of “Naso” we encounter a very interesting fellow. He is called a Nazir, this Nazir is a person who makes a vow to abstain from drinking wine, eating grapes, cutting his hair and he can’t be in contact with the dead. This word Nazir comes from the word crown. We should know that most people are slaves to the pleasures of the physical world. The only person who is truly a king and has the royal crown on his head is someone who is free from his desires.
This Nazir takes upon himself a set time to withdraw from these desires.
The Alshich (Torah commentator of the 16th century) explained that when a person goes through a period of 30 days of being a Nazir, he elevated himself to a level of high spirituality. He comes to such a level that even if he drinks wine again he will do it with a different mindset and consciousness.
H”S is not asking us to abstain from the physical world, on the contrary, He wants us to derive pleasure and joy from it, but the intention behind our pleasures make the whole difference.
When we use the material world for our desires and pleasures this will be done in a very low level, but if we use the world to give pleasure to H”S by fulfilling His Mitzvahs with the material He gives us, then this is a whole different story.
May we be able to carry the strength of the counting of the Omer and the light that was given to us “The Torah” into all our endeavors.
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