VAERA TIME (Short Vort)

I just saw a nice pshat on this weeks parsha from likutei halachos that I would like to share with you. It’s known that when Moishe Rabbeinu first came to the yidden in Mitzrayim to bring the news that the redemption is coming, the yidden did not listen to him “mikotzer ruach ume’avoda kasha” because of the harshness of slavery. It’s hard to leave exile and personal habits and all our narrow places. Reb Noson quotes the Yalkut Reuveini that says that the reason they couldn’t listen to the Rebbe Moshe was because they couldn’t find good deeds within themselves. Reb Noson explains that they didn’t think that they disserved redemption and that is the core trap of spiritual exile. We think we can’t grow or become a tsadick because we just aren’t good enough and that the moment we leave that Katnus Hamochin and find the good points within us can we break free from our prisons and become the tsadickim that we truly are.

Good Shabbos Good Purim

Yitzchak