A Lesson from the Maamar: Steps for Effective Service of Hashem

A Lesson from the Maamar:

For our service of Hashem to be most effective, this should be the order:

1. “Bring olive oil to Moshe”: Contemplate on how Hashem constantly recreates the entire world. This should bring a person to humble his ego before Hashem.
2. “וְ אַתּ ָ ה-you (Moshe/Torah) will ‘תְּ צַוֶּה-connect’ the Children of Yisroel (with Hashem)”: Connect with Moshe Rabeinu, with the Rebbe, who is the extension of Moshe in our generation, and connect with the Torah. This will connect you with Hashem.
3. ‘מֵ אֵ ת-from the letters of א through ת’: Say the words of the Torah.
4. ‘אֹתוֹ אַהֲרֹן יַעֲרֹך-Aharon should arrange the Menorah’: Set up your davening, your personal ‘Menorah,’ by contemplating on the great love and kindness Hashem shows us by giving us Mitzvos. Think about how one minute of doing Mitzvos is greater than all of Gan Eden, and how much more so it is greater than anything else in the physical world.
5. ‘וּ בְ הַ עֲלוֹ ת אַ הֲ רֹן אֶ ת הַ נֵּרוֹ ת-when Aharon lights up the Menorah’: If we contemplate on Hashem’s greatness in the Pesueki Dezimra (Verses of Praise) and when saying Shema, we allow Aharon to pour into us a joyous love of Hashem to give extra power to our current love of Hashem. We need to make ourselves sensitive and receptive to receive this from Above, so that we can experience loving Hashem “with all of our might.”