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Collections: Rabbi Weinberger: Getting To Know Me

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P.179. Appreciating a differentway of life, of doing things. It is the nature of all living beings to want to escape any confinement, though it might be the most luxurious and beautiful place. Adam Harishon's (first) hisrachavus (expansiveness): physical/horizontal vs spiritual/vertical. The latest marketing scams in tzdakah (charity) and fundraising - when even ruchnius (spirituality) becomes gashmius (physical matter). The real prisons (meitzarim) of our neshomos: desires, anger, too much exactitude, etc. What do we learn from Succos - to leave our permanent home (prison) and enter the freedom of the succah (from the sefer Tiferes Yosef, Torah Umoa'dim, p. 42). Following Hashem into the midbar (desert), a place that is unfamiliar to us. What so impressed Yisro that he followed Bnei Yisrael into the desert, leaving status and wealth behind?