Soaring Heavenward | Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff

The Torah doesn't want us just to observe the Mitzvos. ללכת, we walk with them. Explains the של”ה הקדוש, that a person has to always be walking, growing, ascending. Today is not yesterday, and today is not tomorrow. Every day you have to grow in your levels of Kedusha. Says R’ Tzadok HaCohen MiLublin, The Navi Zecharia teaches us, I will place you Those that walk amongst those that stand. There are two types of creations. A Mal’ach and a Mensch. A Mal’ach has a mandate, accomplishes its mission, and stays לעולמי עולמים for eternity on that level. A human being is a מהלך. He grows, he climbs, he aspires, he shteigs. ללכת, a person has to always be walking. And that's the Yesod of controlling our thoughts, our impulses. By stopping, we're walking. By stopping, we're running. By refusing to look, to speak, to see, then in essence, we're shteiging like no one has shteiged before. We're going places that no one can go. That's the Yesod of working on our Middos, working on a character. We’re soaring heavenward. The space module that the astronauts flew to the moon, the seats were molded to their body contours, the instrument panel was inches from their faces, they ate through tubes, did they feel claustrophobic? Absolutely not. They were soaring heavenward where man had never gone before. That's exactly what you do when you control yourself. That's exactly what you do when you have checks and balances in your life. You limit the pleasure of your eyes and you work on strengthening yourself internally. Now you're soaring heavenward. You're walking, you're running, you're climbing. We should continue to climb every day of our life, so that yesterday is not today and today is not tomorrow. The Chafetz Chaim zt”l explained, What does Hashem want from me today? It's all about today. Yesterday was yesterday. Manana is tomorrow. We need to grow today. In the zchus of that growth, we’ll be zoche to all the Brachos of the Torah, and the greatest Simcha בביאת הגואל במהרה בימינו, אמן.