The unquestionable highlight of this week is the international kinus hashluchim. And the above idea very much defines what a shliach is. The avoda of shlichus is not something external, something that the shliach is engaged in or involved in; rather the identity of a shliach and the avodas hashlichus is what defines the entire being of the shliach.
This is the secret of the success of shluchim. Just as in the story with Rabbi Raichik, he was able to go the front seats because it was not him, it was the Rebbe, so too the shliach can do anything anywhere, with no limitations, because it is not him, it is the Rebbe. Even those activities that require the involvement of his feelings and powers of strategy and abilities etc. are also not anything other than shlichus, because his very being is shlichus, and therefore that permeates every aspect of his personality and faculties.
His involvement with budgets and mortgages and campaigns and programs do not distract him one iota from his ultimate objective, because everything in essence is shlichus and there isn’t anything else.
As we join this Shabbos in celebrating shluchim and shlichus, let us focus on the important lessons for shlichus that are to be derived from Parshas Chaye Sara, and let us take advantage of the empowerment of shlichus, and especially of the tremendous energy emanating from the kinus hashluchim, to complete successfully and finally the most important and ultimate shlichus, - to be mekabel pnei Moshiach Tzidkeinu NOW!
L’chaim! May we each work on the ideas and concepts of shlichus the way they relate to our avodas Hashem ואין ענין יוצא מידי פשוטו, - everyone should go on shlichus and dedicate his or her life to carrying out the Rebbe’s shlichus, and together we should complete the ultimate shlichus of ushering in the immediate revelation of Moshiach Tzidkeinu – the ultimate shliach- TUMYM!!!
Rabbi Akiva Wagner
