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| The new normal (Times of Israel) |
Everyone have a safe, healthy, and peaceful Shabbos. - HM
I literally have no recollection of what I was kvetching
about before corona came and attacked. It's all kind of a blur, really. I mean,
there was chit chat about some weird virus out there in the world and
then—whoosh— it was Purim..and I literally have no memory of anything else
after that.
What's been squishing around in my head these days is the
tefillah that we say for a lost item: "Hakol B'chezkas Sumin ad
SheHakadosh Baruch Hu, Meir es Eineiheim." Everyone is considered blind
until Hashem opens their eyes. It's really a declaration, a recognition, that
nothing is lost from Hashem. He is in charge. He knows exactly where everything
is. Everything.
And when do we merit to find something we lost? When we give up
control, and the thought that it is us who finds things....when we accept that
if it's meant to be found, it will be, and the minute Hashem is ready for us to
find it, He'll show it to us.
How many times have we found a lost object and it was right
there in front of our face the whole time? Like in a place we've looked 1000
times! But until the very moment Hashem wanted it to be seen, it was hidden in
plain sight.
We have all lost something. In an instant, life as we knew
it changed forever. It was here a second ago, and now it's gone! And we are all
walking around and searching. Searching for reasons. Searching for answers.
Searching for purpose. Searching for meaning. And above all, searching for
yeshuos and refuos.
With God's help, we won't stop searching. And the minute
Hashem is ready for us to find what we're looking for, He will show it to us.
And like when we pray for a lost object, it's as if Hashem is waiting for our
communal declaration, "Everyone is considered blind until Hashem opens
their eyes....It is You, not us, who is in charge."
Hashem, we know we are not really lost. We know we are just
temporarily blind, waiting for you to open our eyes. Please help us to be ready
and worthy to see what we can't see. We know that when You feel we are ready,
You will not wait one extra second to show us what we all need to see. Until
then, we will keep searching and deepening our understanding that nothing
happens until you will it to be.
