3MN DE TORAH POUR COMMENCER LA JOURNÉE - 🪙 ÇA VAUT DE L’OR !

Today, the 24th of the month of Cheshvan, in this week’s journals—I mean the divine journal, of course—there is a unique subject repeated in the Torah almost word for word: the third and fourth aliyot. It is the story where Abraham asks Eliezer to go find a wife for Isaac, and he goes. He makes a deal with God. He says, "The girl who comes, when I ask for a drink and she says, 'Drink, you and your camels,' she is the girl; I see she has the abundance for Isaac." This is what happened in the fourth aliyah, dear friends; incredibly, Eliezer recounts everything that happened to whom?

To Bethuel and Laban, the father and brother of Rebecca. He repeats to them everything that was in the third aliyah. He tells them, "So, I came today and I said the girl who comes and tells me, ' Drink, you and your camels,' she is the girl." And here the Midrash, the Gemara says, " What is this story in the Torah?" Every letter is like mountains, full of halachot. Every time there is even a dot in the Torah, we know there are many rules to learn.

Why this repetition instead of just writing "etcetera"? And there, the story is beautiful. Dear friends, a great message for us. I think that right now in our generation, it is very important; the Midrash says it like this in Hebrew, "Yafan shel avadim." How beautiful is this dialogue and this story of Eliezer, who was a slave, a servant of Abraham.

Sometimes there, you see the beauty of the Torah much more than in the classic laws. Eliezer has a mission, he goes, and look closely at the parashah, it is practically his own dialogue with God, and he goes to find a wife for whom? For Isaac; Rav Kook explains that Isaac represents the Mincha prayer. Of course , Isaac is the sacrifice.

Especially right now, since we have changed the clocks. It is not easy to stop everything in the middle of the day to pray Mincha. In the morning, when you wake up for Shacharit, Abraham, you can always get up earlier to do it. In the evening, you have the whole night , even if you forgot before going to sleep, but for Mincha, you must know how to stop everything—the day's work.

We are all slaves to our work, we are all servants of others, we are here to be at the service of people. You have to realize this teaches us to stop everything and listen to what this servant is saying; he tells it with his own mouth, in his own way. Because sometimes, we aren't all Torah scholars . This one doesn't know how to read.

That one hasn't studied, and we feel like, well, what more can I possibly add ? No, the Torah—that’s the message from Rav Kook in this week’s Parashah—it tells you it’s even more beautiful: this prayer you’re going to make, this sacrifice you’re going to give, this story you’re going to tell at the Shabbat table, this way you’re going to bring the Torah to life with your own language. It is much more beautiful and much more necessary right now in our generation than having someone who knows every law and every detail of the text. I’m tired of being asked for sources and all that .

Because it has no life, and right now , we need life. Life, making the Torah alive—that is what Eliezer did. It was so beautiful that the Torah doubled his entire story. It let the story be told twice.

First, the dialogue between him and God. And even the second time, when he told everything to Laban and Bethuel , the Torah gave it honor. So come on, let’s all take on this role of Eliezer too. We’ll learn to stop everything to pray, but also add—Rabbi Nachman of Breslov says you must say the prayers, but add personal words to God; take a small moment and find time to tell God how your day was; it’s worth gold, have an excellent day.