01: Drop your own story, join the light

Life Lessons with Ariel Levy

Drop your own story: We are conductors of spiritual energy, and that spirituality needs to be grounded onto the earth for us to truly have the deepest experience of Hashem. Part of our duty is to make the earth a home for Hashem. Through spiritual practice we make a home inside ourself for Hashem but we need to work the land too as a way to give back to the lans for its bounty and give thanks to Hashem but also so we can actually see, taste and touch the fruits of our spiritual and physical labour. Our body is made of the same elements that make up the earth and just like we need to take rest, and do so on Shabbos on the 7th day, so to does the land need rest, to just be on the 7th year. To see the light of Torah we need to drop our imaginary speculative story, take rest, let it be let it be so we can integrate the Torah in its purest way.