Collecting Sparks - R. Yitzchak Sakhai - TorahAnytime.com

Our mission, as the Jewish people, is one mission. Our mission is Torah and mitzvot. Because everything else everybody else has. Culture? Everybody else has. Traditions? Everybody else has. There is one thing we have as a nation nobody else has. No one can claim they have. It's the Torah. That's the only thing we have. Which means our sole responsibility is to uphold the Torah and mitzvot. The Torah. And when we uphold the Torah and the mitzvot, that's how we collect the nitzotzot. Just look at how we do it. In every single country that we've journeyed, we make bat knessets, we make yeshivot. The greatest yeshivot, learning centers for girls, for boys, all of it. And then when the time runs out, next stop. If there are no yeshivot, it's probably going to take longer. The less there is, the longer it's going to take. That is our Which means what? When we keep Shabbat, when we keep kashrut, when we keep the mitzvot of the Torah, it's not just I'm doing for me. It's so much bigger than that. We become a part of this collective that's actually fixing the world. Because in order for the world to come to its completion, to become like day one with Adam and Eve, the perfect being in this perfect world, we need to collect what was lost at that moment, which are these nitzotzot. And the only way to do it is through the mitzvot. And that encompasses all of the mitzvot. Meaning mitzvot between man and man, ben adam l'chavero, and mitzvot between man and Hashem. Meaning you can't just do the mitzvot of I'm doing Shabbat, I'm doing kashrut, I'm doing that, that, that, but I'm but I'm being you know, rude and obnoxious to my friends and I'm and I'm saying lashon hara about this person or or that person. You can't It's both. Both criterias are needed. Both the ben adam l'chavero and ben adam l'makom. They are both crucial in this journey of ours in the world. We can't do it without it. These nitzotzot are only collected by us doing that. That's it. Only. And you see this through Tanakh always with Avraham Avinu and Yitzchak Avinu.