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Mattot-Massei (For Shabbat -Sat. 22nd July – 28th Tammuz) - Laibl's weekly parsha video

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Mattot-Massei (For Shabbat -Sat. 22nd  July – 28th Tammuz)  - Laibl's weekly parsha video

Life is 42 Journeys

SUMMARY: 
There are 42 spiritual journeys in life. Each one is necessary as a prerequisite to the next one. Some may be long and some may be short. But the Torah is the smart app that guides you through the cosmic maze, as does waze guide the driver seeking the location of the address. 

Notes:

• A popular sci-fi fantasy suggests that the meaning of life is ridiculously 42. I am not sure if the author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy knew his Bible well but had he come across this week’s Torah reading he would have discovered that the Jewish people underwent 42 journeys from Egypt to reach the Land of Israel. Perhaps Douglas Adams knew this. 

• Since the Torah is a template of creation and therefore an analog of every aspect of our lives, we must say that we too each undergo 42 journeys in our lifetime. Not necessarily one every two years, because some of the stops that the Jewish people made were much longer than others. 

• Similarly in our own lives we sometimes enter a phase of our life that lasts a long time and some phases come and go very quickly.

• The important thing is to have a goal – our personal Land of Israel. And to get there we have to expect, at times, to pass through a barren desert, a Midbar, which has been the name of the fourth book of the Chumash that we have been learning and concluding this Shabbos. 

• The beauty of a desert is that though it is bereft of much flora and fauna, we are left to our own imagination and ingenuity to make sense of our condition. 

• Traverse your desert with curiosity and finesse. Walk the 42 journeys of your life knowing that the last one allows you to reach your destination. 

• The Torah is your guide to the galaxy – hitchhike your way through with the assistance of this powerful spiritual waze app.

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