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Caught in the Thicket | Rabbi Joey Haber
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One of the challenges are that we are are always looking around. But we can use that trait for good. Learn more about Vayimaen and join our WhatsApp group here: https://www.vayimaen.org/ #vayimaen #shmiraseinayim
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What are the top three
tests of our generation?
A little while ago, at my Shabbat table,
I posed that question to my family,
What are the top three Nisyonot
challenges of our era?
And everyone agreed
the first one is technology.
Everyone agreed on another one,
which is our obsession with materialism.
And the third one was up for debate.
Is it Lashon Hara?
Is it modesty?
But I think the third one is
the challenge of Vayimaen.
The challenge of our head
being all over the place
and sort of caught up and comparing
and looking in a million ways.
And I want to share with you
a powerful thought.
The pasuk says that after עקידת יצחק,
when Avraham Avinu was held back
from slaughtering his son,
Avraham Avinu picked up his eyes,
and he saw
he saw another ram
that was caught in the thicket.
What does that mean,
‘It was caught in the thicket’?
The בעלי מוסר say:
Here's what it means,
What it means is
that Avraham Avinu
saw the next challenge,
the next עקידת יצחק, so to speak.
What is that next challenge?
That next challenge is
that our heads are caught in the thicket.
The Nisayon of our generation
is to have the ability to look away,
to not get pulled in
to all that our brain wants to pull us to,
whether it's triggers inside of us
and outside of us,
all of that to pull away from it.
the pasuk then says.
בקרניו means that Hashem,
when we're able to overcome that test,
our face, our light shines up,
just like Moshe Rabeinu was
Our faces light up
and our lives light up,
if we have the power and the strength
to pull our heads out of the thicket.