You know, the most basic necessities are those most often taken for granted. We don’t think to thank the Giver for onions. For socks. For toilet paper. But the big things, the big things we do thank Him for. We make a special bracha each morning for our eyesight; Pokeach Ivrim. As Avraham is sitting in the sun, vayar eilav. Hashem visits, using the lashon of sight, of vision. Vayisa es einav…vayar. Avraham lifts his eyes and he sees. Beyond the here and now. We can look…and if we try, we can truly see.
Sight is a bridge. It closes the gap between past and present, present and future. We can use sight for good, even great, things, or like anything else, we can use it detrimentally.
When Azi, zt”l, was missing on Friday morning after L’ag Ba’Omer, we had no sight, no vision, there was only confusion. As the afternoon wore on, our sight was expanded. A woman looked at Azi’s picture and “saw” him. Where he was, how he was doing. She couldn’t know that he was no longer with us. And yet, her vision gave us perspective, it illuminated the way in front of us. Her sight made room in our eyes for a new, unsavory reality. Her vision gave us the time and space to accept a new perspective.
Only with the foresight that comes with clarity of vision can we activate our goals and use them to forge deep and meaningful changes both inside and around us. It takes vision to recognize where we are, to articulate where we have come from and to envision where we want to go. Use your kabbalah to look deep inside of yourself and see where you really want to be. Use your kabbalah to get you there. We need to see far in order to see near. Only when we take a step here can we begin to get there.
We need to see far in order to see near.
Only when we take a step here can we begin to get there.