Why Are You Restless?
Why are so many people without rest?
The answer is because they’re not even walking in the right direction. There is what is “right” according to this world, what we believe to be right, and then there is the direction that is God.
The more a person is disconnected from that direction, from the path to Him, the less and less connected and at rest they are.
Our nature is “rest”— from which all action comes, from a place of inner identity. Only a divinely inborn identity allows access to life.
Life without access to God is imprisonment in the jail of life. You think or feel that you are alive. You do not know what “alive” is.
God is the only freedom.
Only reaching the Source settles the mind. For this, everything was worth it, full of value and purpose. Shehecheyanu (for bringing us to this moment).
Not that I think or feel— but that I know, and live the knowing. This is eternal Simchat Torah. No one can take Simchat Torah from you. It is yours forever. For this you toiled and gave your soul.
And on this it is said: “This is Torah, and this is its reward.”
In your partnership with the Creator—”let us make man.”
Mashiach alive. May His name be praised forever.
Reflect:
In what direction are you truly walking—the world’s, or the Source’s?
Can you distinguish between the feeling of being “busy” and the feeling of being truly alive?
What would it feel like to act from a place of deep inner rest, rather than from restlessness?
Let’s explore this together.