5787- The Ever Evolving Destination

Shalom and welcome back to Rashi famously points out that when told where he needs to leave and where he needs to go at an exit but did not tell him where the destination is. All he told him was go to the land that I will show you. It will become clear to you as you go and travel on your destination. It will become clear to you where the land that you're supposed to supposed to get to is. and therefore says Rashi why did do it in order to go ahead and give an extra measure of to by not telling him exactly where he needed to go all he knew was that he needed to leave he got an extra level of in the year tough for it wasn't just happened to be that wanted to give extraar and that's why he didn't reveal it to him rather the fact that didn't reveal him where he was going was essential to the first year entering in to the land Why says it's obvious this ability to be able to say that there's something called the ability to be able to go on a journey that I don't know where the destination is. the ability to pack everything up and to be able to say not just physically but spiritually and emotionally I'm ready to go ahead and to go on a journey even though I don't understand exactly where I'm going but I'm ready to be all of my all of my senses and all of my I'm ready to be that all of all of that to thee what is what does it look like it doesn't just look like a physical land the way to be able to get to the physical land the way to be able to get the spirituality of wherever a person is is a person going in and saying I'm ready to follow your path. Even though I don't know where the destination is, even though I don't know where this path is going to lead me, I'm ready to be all of my leave. We are not just a physical land of artifics, not just the physical comforts that I have living in place that that I'm comfortable in, living in a place that I'm used to, but also leaving behind the ideas that I may think are so cemented in reality to be able to leave that all behind. I'm ready to go and to follow you that I'm ready to follow you like a sheep following a shepherd and to recognize that I'm not lacking anything when I'm able to all of my and is that ability for to say that that desire for to say that that is and that's why the first year entering entering into is told go to an undisclosed location are ready to give up everything are ready to go and everything behind to go and to enter into a place that you don't know and can't grasp and don't understand yet, then you're then you're ready to go ahead and to enter into the land of and like the yeen did many years later when left m to head to it was the same thing. We don't know how we're going to get there. We don't know where the destination is. We don't know what it looks like. We don't know what the goal is. like we don't know how to serve the we don't know what it's going to look like until we get there. But we're ready to go and to give everything up and to follow the and that is that is says a person wants to enter into the land of the physical land of or the spiritual mindset of what's called person wants to enter into the mindset of a person who it means that a person says I'm ready to follow you. I'm ready to go and to give up my comfort, my spiritual and physical comfort in order to follow you and to be everything in order to follow says this is that is the rot of a person constantly to say as much as I know I recognize that there's a level above whatever I know and whenever I'm going to grasp that level there's going to be a level above it and I'm ready and I want and I'm desired to go ahead and to be to hear and to that which I don't yet know there is no place that I can say I've arrived at the destination. I've gotten there. I know everything already. I already understand the whole can never say that. Whatever I think I've gained. Whatever I think I understand. Whatever I think makes sense to me, I'm ready to leave that behind in order to go out and to ascend to the next level. And only by doing that says is yet able to arrive at the place called because he says which I'm leaving it all behind to go where to go to the next level. the level that I don't yet understand but the level that I understand is greater than whatever I have yet I have already grasped whatever I understand says as that's why the medish begins with the say listen my daughter and listen my daughter and see the and go ahead and turn your ears to go ahead and to be to be able to hear the words of your father and obviously this is a reference to Israel who's the daughter so to speak of theam going ahead and shimmy to be able to hear and to be able to see and to be able to then turn our ears to go out and to listen to the says this the inm seems to be out of order listen my daughter and see what does it say right after then go ahead and turn your ears which is generally happens before shimmy before a person's able to go and hear first you have to turn your ears first you have to go and turn your attention to somebody and then shimmy yet the puts in the opposite order. Hear my daughter and see and then turn your ears to listen says because this is what the reality of every person needs to needs to live in this reality of that a person says I heard means I'm able to see with clarity and then what happens right after that I don't settle I don't say okay I've gotten it I've reached a place of and now I'm settled now I'm comfortable I've reached my destination right after that every single What does heid say? A person says, "But I want to turn my ears. I want to hear more. I have heard already. I I've already heard and I've seen," which means I've gotten a c a certain level of understanding. Right after I arrive at my destination, I say, "I'm turning my ears. I want to hear again the call of like this brings out in other places in the parad says that is calling out to every single at every moment. But it's up to us to say that we haven't arrived yet. It's up to us to say that even once we've gotten to the place to the destination there's another destination beyond it. There's another place that I'm able to go to and I have not yet arrived. And therefore listen and then and then go out and turn your ears to be able to hear the next level. A person needs to have a looking seeing things with clarity and then and then to listen to that which is above and how does that happen? The only way to rise to the next level is when I believe there's a next level when I'm able to go to turn my ears to be able to hear the next level. When I'm open enough to understand that I don't understand everything that I have not yet reached the destination. At that moment I can say okay now I'm open to hearing about the next level. Now I'm looking and I want and I'm turning my ears to be able to hear the next level. And that was the call that the bunch gave to and gives to every single yid. If we want to arrive at both collectively as a nation to be able to arrive at that place called Mashiah and individually to arrive not just in the physical land of which we hope to all arrive very very soon but also spiritually to arrive at that place called the only way it can happen is leave behind that which you think you fully grasp and that which you think you've arrived. leave behind the place that you've gotten to to get to where to get to the next level to be able to recognize to believe to turn to ask to begam show me show me the next level show me what the next stage in my growth is show me how I can move from the place that I'm in to the place that I'm supposed to get to on the next level and to recognize that whenever I get there there's another level awaiting me above that because as there is no she therefore it's Therefore, it's befitting of aid to go out and be himself. There is no end. There is no destination. You've never arrived. As soon as you arrive, you turn to your ears and say, "What's the next stage? What's the next mission? What's the next station? Where do I go from here?" That's what a Yid who's living in the place of constantly looks like. This is the of this of what it looks like to hear to see and then to turn our ears to hear again what the next call of is what the next is. what it means to leave behind again leave behind those things that we think we've already fully grasped and to be able to open ourselves up to receiving more and as says that itself is individually but more importantly collectively to come to the place have a Chas.