Nafshi III - 'The Coin'

All day we pour our strength into the physical world. Hours of work, sleepless nights, ideas, risk, sweat. We invest mind, heart, and body just to earn a few dollars. The balatana teaches that when giving to daka something wondrous happens. All the energy, vitality and struggle inside that money is lifted upward, refined and turned into pure light. So when for one holy moment we open our hand and that coin leaves our fingers and becomes sedako, it's not only the coin that is being given. It's all the energy we invest in earning that money becomes uplifted and holy. We're infusing ms nephesh into the gashmas. Our weekday becomes a mitzvah. Our exhaustion becomes a beam of holiness. And when that adaka is sent to Eritis, the power is even deeper. From totis, each coin travels yearning upward, refusing to remain in Golus. It joins thousands of others, and together they rise, reaching the z Shah Shamayim, the gate of heaven where all the brahas flow down into the world. These holy words were written by the balotan about his beloved saddaka for Israel. The saddaka of kabadat 237 years later that same kul kabad still carries this message forward. Every act of sudoka is our answer to that cry. We will not stay in exile. With every coin we are ready on our way.