364. Inner Exile

It seems to me that today's daily dose - Inner Exile - stands in a relation to the one preceding it - G-d in Exile.

"For G-d's people are part of G-d..(Devarim 32:9; quoted in Tanya, Igeret HaTeshuva, middle of ch.4).

G-d is in exile, and so are His people, them being part of Him.

As to what it means for the Divine Presence to be in exile, how it comes about, i.e. how "we have exiled our G-d", and what it takes to "take it (the exile) out of us" and thus bring back our G-d, all this knowledge is in Igeret HaTeshuva,ch.7.

May we study, understand and act upon our understanding.

We need both. We must remove the galut (exile) mentality from within each of us. Have a geula (Final redemption) way of thinking. Let's mourn these 9 Days with purpose....to fix what needs to be repaired (relationships, inner workings, etc).....let's get ready to rebuild our Bais HaMikdash (Temple) and greet Moshiach with joy!

Does this mean stop feeling we deserve something(owed) and woe is me that we should get over it and center our minds our hearts and move forward?

If we ride the Camels through the wilderness (obey the Commandments) our inner exile will become a garden.

Rabbi Freeman
To take the galut out of each of us is to lose an experience of need. the need to be drawn to G-d, the need to understand that we must struggle ,and especially to learn that we are to bloom were ever we are planted.
think about it chana

It sounds to me as if it says this:

Living in galut has produced a galut attitude in me. This galut attitude hinders my ability to accept geulah. I must uproot the galut attitude to prepare myself to accept geulah.

Am I anywhere close?

This is especially true in light of the recent parsha about the spies and their denigration of, the land, yes, but even more so, the nation that doubted itself and G-d.

Today it is so poignantly true that we still don't see Israel as the torch she must be. We cow-tow, like slaves, to the world's opinions and act without resolute self-assurance of who we are and what we know Hashem has, unequivocally, given us.

Hi, Rabbi Freeman,
everyday I am waiting for the "daily dose." Sometimes I get the meaning immediately, sometimes I grasp it after some "thinking"
But today, I do not understand it, even thinking does not help.
exile=Galuth. What do I have to take out of me?
Do I have to convince myself, that I am not living in the Galuth, although I do????