Opportunity to Restore Our Connection

By Rabbi Yosef Serebryanski

The Creator of heaven and earth always gives us an opportunity to restore our connection and refocus on the source of life. Since Hashem is endless with no definition, we can always restore our connection by starting anew. Moshe showed the people miracles that gave people support in their belief and connection with Hashem.

(Genesis 2:1) “And Elohim completed with the seventh day all the world that he made.” The Ohr Hachayim explains that he completed all that he wanted to make. The word in Hebrew for completed also means longing or desired.

On the seventh day he created the soul for the world. The book of Exodus (31:17) reveals that “For six days He made the heavens and the earth and on the seventh day he created rest.” The word in Hebrew for rest is also soul. This means that He was going to stop creating the world and it would cease to exist. Instead, He made a seventh day that sustained the creation for another six days. The Yismach Yisroel explains that the soul of the seventh day is what gives life to the world for another six days.

In a similar vein the sages teach that Hashem was going to destroy the world but because the Jewish people accepted the Torah the world was saved. The Torah is full of directives about how to connect with the will of the Creator. It is our purpose to reveal the Creator life force from beyond limits within our limited existence. In this way we elevate the entire physical realm and achieve our purpose.

When we fully understand and believe that nothing can exist or move without the source of life, then we realize that no matter what we did we were never disconnected other than in a superficial way. We can then restore our connection by focusing deeper. We can also understand and see how all matters in the world that confuse people exist to bring the entire existence to a conclusion that the Creator wants.

Each person must reflect on why he was created. The purpose in this moment may not be the purpose in the next moment. Each new moment holds a new element in a person’s journey. Yet by reflecting, it opens the person to listening to the soul’s purpose. While Abraham and Isaac prayed at the Temple Mount, Yaakov prayed in the place where he was, and Hashem brought him to the Temple Mount. In this way each person needs to pray and connect wherever he is, and Hashem will connect the person with the Temple Mount that is the gate to heaven.

The purpose of Israel is to reveal the oneness in creation. This is done through gatherings that are based in love and support of all people. When a person has internal balance then he/she can exude that and give others a chance to emulate it.