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Haazinu: Torah is like 🌧️

As he gets ready to take his final leave of his people, Moshe compares the Torah he is about to teach Bnei Yisroel to rain watering plants. Aside from the obvious metaphor of Torah bringing life, perhaps there is a deeper message here as well.

Every patch of earth has its own unique qualities, and each area has plants that it is uniquely suited to providing for. And yet, the same rain nourishes each and every spot in the world, and allows it to produce its own crop.

Similarly, each and every one of has our unique characteristics and circumstances, abilities, and challenges. Each of is capable of producing a unique crop of achievements, things that nobody else can do instead of us.

Yet in order to make our unique contributions, we all need the same thing. Only through the Torah can we see how to use our unique talents in pursuit of the greater good, in the context of Hahsem’s grand plan. The Torah nurtures our uniques talents, and shows how to use them correctly.

לע״נ דוד חיים בן ישראל דוב הכהן
לע״נ ר׳ חיים דוב בן ר׳ בןציון שלום