10/23/17 "Be yourself"
A Torah thought that has stuck with me for a long time goes
something like this; most people know the reason we say our name/passuk at the
end of shamonei esrei, is to remind us our names when we go up to heaven. The
obvious question remains, even in our sleeps we know our names, it’s what we
were called from day one. What changes when we go up? What happens differently?
A beautiful answer I heard, which has real deepness to is, we go through life
doing good deeds, no doubt. But, have we been our essence, or was it an image
far from who we really are. In the next world, there is no lies, if we have
strayed from ourselves we will literally forget who we are, as we haven’t live
it for all our lives.
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