Is this a curse or a blessing?
G‑d will have you return to Egypt in galleys, by a route which I told you you should not see again. There you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as slaves, but no one will buy. (Deuteronomy 28:68.)
There are no curses in Torah, there are only blessings and hidden blessings. And the greatest of blessings are the hidden blessings.
There are no futile routes in this world, just shorter routes and longer routes. And the longer routes lead to the highest places.
There are no irreversible mistakes in life, none at all.
Even if you will "return to Egypt in galleys"-- even if you will reverse all the good G‑d has done for you and attempt to sell yourself to the slavery of this world, what will become of you?
Eventually you will discover you do not belong there. As the Torah predicted, “no one will buy.”
They may give you money, they may give you every honor and pleasure of this world. But there is no person or thing in this world that can purchase your soul.
It already belongs to the One Above.
And so, eventually you will take all that you have gained from that distant place and return.
Because that is the meaning of all wrong turns in this world. They are nothing more than the One Above providing you a route to acquire these experiences of His world and know Him better when you return.
That is the meaning of life. It all begins and ends with “G‑d will cause you to return.”
Hello, J.W.
". . . That is the meaning of life. It all begins and ends with "G-d will cause you to return [Rabbi Freeman]."
An Australian Aborigines' proverb said, "We are all visitors to this time, this place.We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love . . . and then we return home.
The Aborigines located on the continent and country of Australia in the Southern Hemisphere recognized this simple yet profound truth expressed by Rabbi Freeman.
Best wishes,
Good Afternoon, (2022)
While we are on this journey, we must embrace and hold dear to our heart the good that we are taught, what we have learned, and the righteous life we've lived. Then we go home to our ancestors who we will meet again, and who will greet us in the next world (Olam-Ha-Ba). Albeit; our focus is to live our best life in the here and now, the after life is already taken care of.
Baruch HaShem,