זכרנו לחיים מלך חפץ בחיים

לע"נ אלישע חנינא בן ידיד נפשי הרב אהרן אברהם שליט"א

 

 

Can we have life without Hashem "desiring" our life. The answer, surprisingly, is yes. How does this work?

When we are clinging to Hashem, our life force comes from the source of life. ואתם הדבקים בה' אל-היכם חיים כולכם היום –  you who cling to Hashem, live today. Torah is the essence of life. When one nullifies himself to the light of Torah in all of his actions and thoughts, with every fiber of his being, he then clings to the source of life and is filled with a love of life and a desire of true life [from Above], and naturally his middos are pure and he is not liable to stumble with faulty character traits.

 

But when a person is not completely bound to the light of Torah, life no longer flows from the source of life, there is no longer a desire for his life [from Above] and this brings in its wake a slew of faulty character traits which are rooted in a disgust for true life.

When we ask זכרנו לחיים מלך חפץ בחיים -  remember us for life, the king who desires life, we don’t want to be like dogs who scream "give give" [the Zohar uses this analogy: כלבים דצווחין הב הב] rather we ask for life that is engraved on the essence of our souls with true love from the source of life in order that this love and desire should not be absent from our lives even for one second and thus we won't have create opening for the appearance of bad middos.

Through our connection to to the source of life we will be controlled and guided by positive character traits that generate an enhanced fulfillment of Torah and mitzvos with the exalted strength of their powerful wonder.  

We get to choose – is it going to be a life fueled by divine favor, a life a dveykus; or a life of emptiness where the power of evil rears its ugly head.

May our lives always be rooted in a holy חפץ בחיים.

Amennn!!!!:-)

[עפ"י מי מרום י"ג עמ' רנ"ו]