Sharpening the Sense of Smell
It has to be practiced because actually you’re not so convinced yet; you can say it and mentally, in an abstract way, you might feel it’s so but that’s nothing yet. You have to talk yourself into seeing through the darkness. You have to sharpen your mind by means of thinking and speaking words that bring the truth into focus.
“Baruch Hashem for the Torah learners! I thank the Almighty that we have a remnant of loyal Jews who are devoted to the Torah because they are our best. They are everything to us!”
More than the big businessmen, more than the frum judges and the frum inventors and frum engineers. More than anyone else we look at the Torah learners with love and admiration because they bring all the blessings down on the world. If business is going well, if things are peaceful, it’s because of the Torah learning.
And that’s how we live successfully in this world. The more we sharpen our minds, the more we will perceive the greatness of the Yaakovs, the frum Jew, the talmid chochom, and the more we’ll recognize the emptiness of the Eisavs, the wicked ones disguised as the great and important ones in this world. We’ll learn the lessons of our parshah and successfully see through the darkness of Olam Hazeh.
