A person in this world is accompanied throughout his days by bundles of commandments, and he is tasked with gathering and fulfilling his life's mission.
This week, it is the episode that teaches us more than anything else how every Jew is wrapped up in all those opportunities.
The Midrash describes how a person goes and enters his new home: "When you build a new house - and make a parapet for your roof," and immediately after that you make a door for yourself - "and write them on the mezuzahs of your house," and if you wear new clothes "you shall not wear shatanez," you go to get a haircut "you shall not round the corners of your head" - and God, Blessed be He, said, even if you were not engaged in anything but walking on the road, the commandments accompany you, as it is said: "For a bird's nest calls before you.".
And if we delve deeper, we will understand that there are actually two separate systems: there is 'Torah' and there are 'Mitzvot' - "'Torah and Mitzvot "You taught us laws and ordinances," "to teach them to your people Israel." Torah and Mitzvot".
The difference between them is found in the words of King Solomon, "For a lamp is a commandment, and Torah is light.".
The mitzvah is likened to the physical vessels that receive the light, to the candle, to what holds the fire, the wick, the oil.
The Torah is likened to light itself, to illumination, to a flame, in Aramaic 'Oriyta', and the place of the Torah in the ark is named after the light.
Hence, the Torah is a light that illuminates all darkness, and the mitzvah, like the candle, gives the possibility of finding points of spirit in a world of rain; the mitzvah elevates a person's actions and attributes them to the supremacy of the Torah.
The mitzvah protects a person from reaching situations of trial, of dealing with evil, so that he can choose the right choice, just like a candle that illuminates the path step by step.
But the Torah eliminates all darkness, the Torah eliminates the struggle itself, not just enlightenment for the next step, but literally a sunrise that eliminates the darkness.
The content of the entire parasha is to teach the importance of the commandments that accompany man at all times and at all hours, and elevate his body and draw him into the spiritual world.
And it is not for nothing that the parasha is called "If you go out": even if a person goes out and descends outside the holy place, and even if he is drawn after his heart like a "beautiful woman," even there he has a commandment to hold on to them and be careful not to fall further.
And when he grasps those commandments, they are the ones who will show him the way back home.
• Head of the 'Torah and Halacha' Beit Midrash'
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