Sparks In The Desert - Charlie Harary

have you ever felt like you're in the wrong place like you're not where you want to be like you're not very yet you're not accomplishing enough you're not getting to where you want to go everyone else is is past you it could be you're in the wrong neighborhood or the wrong career or you're with the wrong people it could be macro it could be micro you're at a at a at a w at an event and you're talking to the wrong person let's say you want to be talking to these people you're talking to these people you know it could be your family's like this and not like this or your house or Community or school or job like you ever feel this way but you look around and you say it's not a holy feeling you know the feeling it's different it's it feels like a almost like a I wish I were more feeling it's not really a striving for Hashem it's more of like an an a dissatisfaction with life you feel that way well if you did the or in this week's para is for you or this week's para great question para says these are the journeys of that left MIT remember the Jews left M left Egypt didn't go straight to Israel right 40 years in the desert but in the 40 Years of the desert it wasn't because they just stood in one place they didn't like set up shop schools shs Kosh food were good for 40 years and then 40 years later they were able to go in and they went in no they kept on moving around remember how big is the Sinai desert and they moved they stayed someplace set up shop sometimes for a day M like let's go move five miles and maybe in a different direction for a year six miles in another direction for three months they kept on moving around the whole time and the Torah says these are the journeys but says Journeys what do you mean Journeys it should say these are the places where they stopped if I take somebody if I take you on a tour of Israel you're not telling me about the journeys about and one and the three and the Highway 52 and the you tell me about that I went to and I went to Taria then I went to mean I went to you're talking about where you stopped that's the purpose so it should say these are the places where they stop what's the journeys and he gives a very deep cabalistic Insight which I don't understand he explains that the Jewish people were not bouncing around the desert for no reason you see there's a concept called Divine Sparks in Hebrews called nitos now I don't really get it but I know a little bit of what people greater than me have told me that basically the way it works from my understanding is that you have this spirituality that's out there maybe in people maybe in things maybe in places and you yourself are a you're able to be a conduit for spirituality and when you do spiritual things potentially you lift up the environment around you you redeem if you will Sparks that are lost and so if you see a make a blessing on a food you could be lifting the spark of that food or if you pray in a certain location if you see a person you encourage them to be connected to Hashem if you bring godliness everywhere you go you potentially are lifting Sparks everywhere you go now that's an incredible thing because those Sparks are lost and maybe it is your job to lift them up and it your soul gets from those Sparks it's incredible work that's Divine work lifting Sparks now the desert was filled with Sparks it was the place if you will of the non- Holy side it's the desert it's filled with scorpions and and there's no life and there's no wildlife and there's no what that's the place the desert is that place of the non- Holy side and so the Jewish people they were poised orim says to do great work they had they were full they had 600,000 Souls they had mosha which was sort of the root tree they had Aon which was the officer of the Shina they had the Torah they came out of Egypt which was which refined them they were ready to go and so they took all that and they walked into the desert and the desert was filled with unlifted Sparks and for some places it took them a day and they lifted everything and they left and some place took a year that's what they moved around for because what they were doing was they were finding places and they were collecting Sparks now while they were there they were doing all they were they were doing praying doing whatever but really it wasn't until they left that all the Sparks come with them so the or says the reason why it says these are the journeys is because it's all about the journey it was about taking the Sparks away it was taking the hostages out of Gaza that the location isn't important it's the Sparks that are important so we want to take them out so in a deeper level says look at it inside it's inim read it the whole thing it's a large piece that is is well well beyond my ability to understand and my explanation now but if you have the time to go through it it's worth the effort there's a great English Hebrew as well that I have here with it from the Arts girl so you should really get art girl came out with a great great addition of this Hebrew English so if you can get it if you read the Hebrew either way just read it gorim is saying something very powerful journeys of the Jews it was about the Sparks not about the desert not even about Israel remind me of a advice that I believe he once gave me when he explained to me that in life it's actually not a great thing to always want to be someplace else you have to strive to be in the right places you have to be around the wrong people you have to always put yourself in the best places possible but wherever you are you have an opportunity to make a difference there stop looking for the next if you're somewhere be there bring godliness to wherever you are and so whether it's encouraging or or teaching or or blessing or praying or something recognize that if God placed you somewhere it could be you've been placed there because there's Sparks that need to be lifted me and you may have a journey very different than what we think you see when we look around and we see other people succeeding we want to be like them it's just comparativeness it's not real God doesn't compare you are you you have your own journey in life and if you've been given those family members and that community and that this and that job if you find yourself talking to this person at the wedding could very well be that that person needs you now and whether we understand what it means that the lift the spark or not the lesson is the same bring godliness to everything you do lift people up in a holy way and that's life that's the journeys of your life it's not about getting to the promised land at the time that is before your time it's about wherever you go be there and lift it up especially if you're in a place of lack of godliness every interaction every moment every day every prayer every food everyone has the opportunity to lift up the world around them if they stop running and start realizing that their life is a say your name there's a book being written about you and it says these are the journeys of your life if you recognize it then every every day has its own meaning and you're not ready for the next you can strive for more but you're not always leaving and losing the Nowak had a story where he was once delayed on a flight and he was going to miss his gig and he knew right away if God's doing that there's a reason so they stopped and said I think it was in Amsterdam for a day and he got off the plane he's like okay aam show me and he stops off at the store and he sees this guy and the guy say hey you're a rabbi goes yeah I am goes I just started to learn about Judaism my my mother is Jewish my father is not I just didn't goes can you help me and he started spent the whole day talking to him took him with him to Israel and the guy became a about Chua and he got it God needed some him and amam so he had the layover butak got it clearly but guess what we get it all the time person next to you on the plane the person on the this your colleague the family member that you're raising versus anybody else this neighborhood this our lives are filled with opportunities to lift people up if we stop trying to compare ourselves to other people and stop trying to get to plac that we're not there yet ready and start realizing that every journey is a journey of Sparks we lift up the world around us and maybe we become the people really meant to be