By studying the Torah regularly, we construct a “Tabernacle,” i.e., a dwelling for G‑d, in our personal lives. By commanding the Jewish people to encamp around the Tabernacle, G‑d teaches us that we should center our lives around this inner sanctuary. The innermost point of the Tabernacle was the Ark, which housed the Tablets of the Covenant, i.e., the Torah. When the Torah is the focal point around which our lives revolve, it can positively affect all facets of our lives, as it is meant to. Furthermore, once the Torah is illuminating and influencing our lives as it is meant to, its influence can spread still further outward, enlightening and refining all humanity and the entire world.1
Hitva’aduyot
5744, vol. 4, pp. 2649–2650.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky is a scholar, author and anthologist, and is editor-in-chief at Chabad House Publications of California. He is the author and translator of Apples from the Orchard, gleanings from the writings of the Arizal (Rabbi Isaac Luria, 1534–1572) on the Torah, and is the author and editor-in-chief of the Kehot Chumash produced by Chabad House Publications, featuring an interpolated translation of the Torah with commentary adapted from the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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Today's text emphasizes the revelation of the Baal Shem Tov to spread the Torah to hasten the coming of the Moshiach. And I have to thank G-d because it is what Chabad usually does.
However, we are living the 10 Days of Repentance, prior to Yom Kippur. And in that vein worried for the issues that left a mark in the already lived life. May our merciful G-d grant us the necessary power spark that light our minds which in turn enable us to take the right actions according to His will.
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I always have a good feeling when I read the Torah, but my favorite
is Genesis especially In the Beginning. It gives me a wonderful
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Thank you for these words of truth and values. "Furthermore, once the Torah is illuminating and influencing our lives as it is meant to, its influence can spread still further outward, enlightening and refining all humanity and the entire world", you wrote. Educating and use the outreach of the Noahide community can greatly enhance this. Afterall, when Hashem approached the nations to accept the Torah but the nations told Him no, it doesn't that all individuals said "No".