Parashat Lech-Lecha comes to us this week with a familiar message: move yourself. Move yourself from your place, from your place of birth, from the place of your ancestors. Go.
And while you may or may not be one of the record number of USers looking to leave the country right now, I believe the Torah is not telling us to literally move to another land, but to move (the root of movement) ourselves away from where we have been and toward something else.
“But toward what?,” you might ask. Indeed. The wisdom of the parasha says that it is “a place that I will show you.” It is unknown to us who move, perhaps until we get there. Perhaps not even then because there is no ‘there,’ just the way toward it. The focus of the parasha indeed is the movement itself, not the place itself.
As we find ourselves unmoored, breathe into that unmooring and orient to this new reality. I invite us to perceive this unmooring as exactly the first step needed to move from a place that is no longer working toward a more connected, more interwoven, more just reality-to-come. Let us find one another and together move toward a place we can indeed show one another. We are worth fighting for.
Shabbat shalom,
R’ David
And while you may or may not be one of the record number of USers looking to leave the country right now, I believe the Torah is not telling us to literally move to another land, but to move (the root of movement) ourselves away from where we have been and toward something else.
“But toward what?,” you might ask. Indeed. The wisdom of the parasha says that it is “a place that I will show you.” It is unknown to us who move, perhaps until we get there. Perhaps not even then because there is no ‘there,’ just the way toward it. The focus of the parasha indeed is the movement itself, not the place itself.
As we find ourselves unmoored, breathe into that unmooring and orient to this new reality. I invite us to perceive this unmooring as exactly the first step needed to move from a place that is no longer working toward a more connected, more interwoven, more just reality-to-come. Let us find one another and together move toward a place we can indeed show one another. We are worth fighting for.
Shabbat shalom,
R’ David
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