Moments are fleeting or not…
Existentially, human beings are imbued with a healthy desire to live and exist, BH. Yet the choice as to our very existence isn’t ours. It precedes us.
This past week Dina and I had the great joy of celebrating the wedding of our daughter Rivka. The absolute delight and bliss of marrying off a child is difficult to describe. It’s beyond words. Words simply don’t do it justice because it’s not a mere emotion — it’s an existential experience.
Moments can be fleeting. The marriage of a child however, isn’t a moment. Rather, the encapsulation of the cosmic intention of creation. G-d’s creation that is… predicated on love and the fusion of two souls, the imbued eternal nature with which Gd created the world — is recognized.
It precedes us. It empowers us to do our best and leave our own distinct mark on this world. It ensures that moments aren’t fleeting rather eternal.
No, it’s not an emotion and nor does one’s vocabulary contain the word that can aptly describe the moment. It’s transcendent — beyond the limitations of finite life.
At times like these — when the nation of Israel is under attack — both in Israel and in the diaspora, it’s the wedding that sends the resounding message that we all so need — the message of eternity. Good prevails over evil, period!
We aren’t merely our own selves, we perpetuate those who precede us and create the future of those who succeed us.
Yes, we shall succeed — as in in be victorious —precisely because the Jewish ethos and prescribed way of life as transmitted in the Torah is to recognize our own individual ability to achieve something way greater than ourselves. We touch the Divine and we assure eternity.
I am definitely the proud father of the bride and the joy will only get greater as they embark on their journey to transform this world to a Divine abode!