Ethics of Our Fathers: Chapter 2 Mishna 4 An Upside Down World He used to say, Do G-ds will as you would do your own will, so that He may do your will as if it were His; sacrifice your will for the sake of His will, so that He may undo the will of others before yours Rabbenu Yona explains that just like one has the desire to do his own will so too one should want to do the will of G-d. Not only that, but one should strive to make his will and the will of his Creator to be the same. This sounds like a great idea, but how do we accomplish this? The more we learn and incorporate the Torahs values into our own lives, we begin to change. This means that when we envelop the values of the Torah, they change us into spiritual people. This in turn leads us to want to continue to act in such a way which will bring us to a higher awareness of what G-d wants from us. The Mishna continues by explaining G-d gives us everything that we need. By doing the will of G-d ie by keeping His Torah and commandments, He in turn gives us what we need.. This may seem difficult as most people do not have easy lives and have trials and tribulations to contend with. At the end of the day though, we have a roof over our heads and food to eat. This is what the Mishna means. Although we may think we need more or deserve more, nonetheless, G-d gives us what He feels we need and can handle, not the other way around. The last part of the Mishna teaches us that when we do G-ds will, he keeps our enemies at bay so that they cannot hurt us. This is also difficult to understand because we dont always witness this first hand or second hand or even know about the great things that G-d does for us. We will find out later (in the true world, ie the next world) all the things that we went through and why. Not only that but G-d will reveal what He did to take care of us and thwart the plan of our enemies. We can only understand this as a true soul without a body because in this physical world our minds are clouded and we dont see reality as we should. At that time when our soul is not part of our bodies things are seen with greater clarity. In essence we live in an upside down but G-d runs the show and will show us why He did things the way He did. The thing we have to do is continue to grow and sanctify His name in this world through the mitzvos that we do which should change how we look and interact with others.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:17:58 +0000
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