Here’s a little something light to start off our week of study [she said, wryly].
This teaching is by a rabbi I had not heard of previously. It is rendered יצחק בידיס in the Hebrew letters. The first name is clearly Yitzkhok and the last, I am guessing, is probably Vidis, or something similiar to that. If anybody knows, please write in and let me know.
Names (important as they are) aside, here’s the teaching, which refers to Numbers 19:2
זאת חקת התורה
zot chukat hatorah
this is the statute of the law
ווען א איד געהט תורה לערנען אָדער טאָן א מצוה, איז דער עיקר זײַן כוונה זאָל זײַן .„אשר צוה ה’“ אז אזוי האָט אים גָט געבאָטען.
When a Jew goes to learn Torah or to do a mitzvah, the main thing is that his kavvanah (intention) should be “asher tsivah Hashem” (“which G-d has commanded”), as if G-d ordered him [personally, to do it].
So this is like when our seder leaders at Pesach (Passover) remind us that we are to approach the story of the exodus as if we ourselves had been enslaved in Egypt and as if we ourselves were led across the Reed Sea by the hand of Moses. Except, now, we must take this awareness into everything we do. And I do mean everything, because, what can we possibly do in this world that is not Torah?
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