A Lightning Bug's Lesson
Early each morning while it is still dark outside I walk through a nearby park on my way to work. Along the path in the park I sometimes see deer, rabbits, raccoon, and possum. Yesterday, I noticed lightning bugs for the first time this summer. Encountering a brief flash of light directly in front of me, an idea popped into my head.
Just as a lightning bug creates light from within itself, a Jew performing a mitzvah illuminates the darkness of golus with the light of his G-dly soul.
The lightning bug is truly a living example of what I wrote in this post.
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For it is You who will light my lamp; Hashem, my G-d, who illuminates my darkness.
(Tehillim 18:29)
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Simon Jacobson made a similar point (in case you missed it), and it's posted at www.mentalblog.com:
http://www.mentalblog.com/archive/2005_04_01_archive.html
Thank you, Golus Traveler. It looks like we derived the same lesson from different sources.
excellent message, very inspiring. :)
Malka: Thank you for your kind words.
Ki ner mitzva VeTorah Ohr.
For the candle is the mitzva and the Torah is the light.
When we do a mizva, we are shedding G-ds light in to the world.
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