B"H
I get these wonderful emails each day, excerpts from the book Bringing Heaven down to Earth, and today's is a very special message for me, and I think for everyone.
"You can blunder around in the dark, carefully avoiding every pit. You can grope through the murky haze for the exit, stumbling and falling in the mud, then struggling back to your feet to try again.
Or you can turn on the light. There is a switch to the inner light buried without a doubt inside your heart. Even if it is ever so small, that is not important. Even a tiny flame can push away the darkness of an enormous cavern."
Instead of wrestling with the darkness, and becoming weakened and not strengthened (as it says in Tanya, one who wrestles with a dirty person is bound to become dirty throughout the fight), we should take a POSITIVE approach at life, connection with Hashem, and the darkness will be dispelled altogether on its own.
It's about lighting the inner flames of our neshamas. It's about lighting up the inner flames in the hearts of our loved ones. It's about connection to the warm esh haTorah that we have so fortunately received from our loving Father in Heaven.
Brachos for A Gut Chodesh and Chanukah Sameach,
May we be worthy of lighting the Menorah in our Temple, immediately ;D
