The Other Chumash
Now, when a mother and father build a home like that – nobody can build a perfect home, but when parents make this avodah a focus in their lives, so they have to know that as anonymous as they are, they're being written down in the Torah. Just like the Bnos Tzelafchad are written forever, so too will that mother and father be recorded forever.
So you’ll say, “Bnos Tzelafchad?! What does this have to do with us? We are born too late to be included in the Chumash. No matter what we accomplish it can’t be jotted down.”
But we have to know that there is another Chumash, another Torah, that is being written as we speak. At the end of days another Torah will be read, a Torah that tells a tale of our entire history; and that’s the book that matters most because what’s written there is the only history that matters. It’s the history book of Hashem and if you’re written down there, you’re inscribed forever and ever.
And so there’s still time and there’s still opportunity—big opportunities—for all of us to be written up in this great Chumash. The opportunity to achieve this greatness is within the reach of everyone; anyone who is willing to make the effort. And when this great sefer will be read so all of a sudden Mrs. So and So’s name will pop up. Just like the names of Bnos Tzelafchad were written, her name will also be inscribed. A mother in the kitchen and her husband in the kollel or in the factory will be there. Even a little girl or a little boy will be mentioned — an ‘anonymous’ Beis Yaakov girl or a yeshiva boy. When that great Torah is read and our names are mentioned—with all the details of what we did in this world to build up the Jewish home and to build ourselves too—that will be the greatest happiness we could ever imagine: The happiness of being written in Hashem’s book and being with Him forever and ever.
Have A Wonderful Shabbos
