This week has been a bit more challenging navigating the ups and downs that come with living in this life of exile… as Mark Ronson says, Nothing Breaks Like A Heart. I woke up today and it hit me that we’re all just scattered pieces of a broken soul trying to come together and make it whole.

The Parashah opens with: “And you will command the Children of Israel that they shall take for you clear olive oil, crushed, for illumination, to light a lamp continually.”

What strikes me is that the action we are commanded to take is a physical action in a moment— it’s plucking an olive, squeezing, grinding and crushing it for its oil, in order to elevate it. and what’s to follow is illumination and a continual light. It is the same in life— only after self-sacrifice can we merit seeing purity illuminate our souls.

The stories leading up to this moment in the Torah continually show us a descent prior to the ascent, because the height and light come from the falls and the darkness. and since everything physical is a reflection of its spiritual counterpart, there is no ascent without a prior descent. So, we have to stay faithful and focus on the light or we get consumed by darkness. If we look at ourselves like the olives, going through life, feeling crushed at various stages, but remain hopeful that from the crushed moments comes the elevation – the light – we can stay faithful on our path towards our own ascension and redemption. At every moment in life, our decisions can be fueled by fear, constantly questioning, in a state of uncertainty. Alternatively, we can operate from a place of faith, realizing that whatever is meant to be will be. and when we put our trust in that process, if we are open to believing that what is meant for us will come to us, then the crushed parts of the path that we are on will illuminate the darkness, like a light shown in a dark room. The greater the darkness, the greater the light.

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– Erez // @erezsafar

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