Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Acharei Mos,where HaShem tells Moshe after the death of Aharon's two sons that Aharon should not come at all times into the Sanctuary in the inner part where HaShem's Shechinah rests on the Holy Ark Cover .
In this Parsha,Yom Kippur is discussed, a time when the Kohein Gadol Aharon would prepare himself to go into the Sanctuary.The full procedure that the Kohein Gadol had to undertake was done with trepidation and fear for he knew into Whose Presence he was stepping.It is not a light personal thing to stand before HaShem. It is to be done with humility and pure unselfishness. It is to be done with humility.The High Priest would start to prepare long before and would have other Levites working with him in preparing for the task.
To a person of physicality, the choice exists every minute of life, for us to choose whom to follow - HaShem or the negative way , as the offerings to HaShem made on Yom Kippur reminded us and surely HaShem's Way is the one to be chosen.
HaShem is beyond Holiness and to be in a part of His Holy Presence is beyond our state of purity .To be in HaShem's Presence needs utmost Holiness and purity and for this as well, the Torah was given, to prepare us to be Holy so we can have a close relationship with HaShem .
HaShem is not in any way physical as some think .HaShem could never be contained in a mere human being.HaShem is far beyond physicality and its pull by the Yetzer Horah .HaShem asks us to emulate Him and we can only do this to a certain extent for we are still physical beings with physical needs and wants. HaShem certainly knew this for HaShem Created us,so what did HaShem mean when asking us to emulate Him? HaShem wants us to take our physicalities and hone them toward Holiness and keeping pure,clean and moral .HaShem knows that for us this is not an easy task and so,appreciates the extreme self sacrifice we make in putting our physical desires toward holiness. HaShem Created the Yetzer Horah to overcome it and thus raise ourselves spiritually above the physicality .Living a mere physical existence leaves us no higher than the creatures that walk the Earth only living to their physical needs and desires. HaShem gave us a voice as He Uses , so we can use it in His Holy Service to be able to make this World Holier . Every word we say remains in the air .It surrounds us and puts us above the animalistic tendencies of physicality .It allows us to share in HaShem's Beautiful Creation and complete this existence by sweetening the very air we breath with sweet words of HaShem thus inviting HaShem into the World. HaShem Created the world with His Word and so , do we fashion the purity of the very air around us with our words . As long as these words and our actions are clean and pure, so do we help to purify the World around us .
I mentioned at the beginning here that HaShem instructed Moshe to tell Aharon that he is not at all times to enter the inner Sanctuary for HaShem's Shechinah resides therein . We need to realize that HaShem is always around us .So we must at all times make ourselves pure and Holy for at all times we can be in His Presence .
The ultimate destination of Creation is also to ensure that the physicality has a relationship with G-D as Adam walked with HaShem . We too are to work toward this destination when HaShem will again Walk among us close and sweet .
But we need to first purify ourselves with HaShem's Laws of Torah that are His pathway to Him with love .
When this World can become a Torah-Keeping World , then HaShem's Shechinah can extend to us all and we can live within His Pure and Special Holiness .
Let Humility be our guide to putting our own wants aside of how we may want to live and let us all surrender to His Will.
With love to HaShem , I wish HaShem with love a beautiful Holy Shabbos Kodesh with love and to all my fellow Yidden , a beautiful holy Shabbos Kodesh with love.
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