Falling

This weeks parsha, Korach has so much to teach us beloved. It's about leaders, it's about followers. At the heart of it all it's about intention and relationship. It is written, "To love YHVH your G*D, to listen to His voice and cleave to Him". Deut. 30:20. How can we do this? The only way we can know an unknowable G*D is through His Torah. Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin says that G*D cannot be seen or felt except in so far as He is known and He is known only insofar as the knowledge of His Torah lives in the minds and hearts of mankind. To cling to a Torah scholar, a person who is already one with his creator, is one way we can connect to G*D. May we all be blessed with Torah scholars in our midst.
When I keep HaShem close, when I surround myself with people whose lives are committed to following HaShem and keeping His Torah I truly feel a deep connection with the One who loves me more than I can ever imagine.

I heard this song this morning in a white knuckle commute. HaShem knows me better than I know myself, it really spoke to my heart.
Shabbat Shalom, Elisheva

Give me rules, I will break them
Show me lines, I will cross them
I need more than a truth to believe
I need a truth that lives, moves, and breathes
To sweep me off my feet

Its gotta be
More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance
Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
Its like I'm falling,
Its like I'm falling in love

Give me words, I'll misuse them
Obligations, I'll misplace them
Cuz all religion ever made of me
Was just a sinner with a stone tied to my feet
It never set me free

Its gotta be
More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance
Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
Its like I'm falling
Its like I'm falling in love

Love, Love
Deeper and deeper
It was love that made me a believer
In more than a name, a faith, a creed
Falling in love, brought the change in me

Its gotta be
More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance
Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
Its like I'm falling,
Its like I'm falling
In love
I'm falling in love