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Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Levi Gershon ben Chana Pesha a young man recently diagnosed with lung cancer. Please Hashem shower this young man with a complete healing refuat hanefesh v’refuat haguf among all of Klal Yisarel who are sick and suffering b’mheira, b’rachamim, Amen.
The Shechinah, the spark of G-dliness that is injected into every Jew is in exile in order to redeem the holy sparks out of their coarse physicality. This process is called birur and tikkun. Birur is a process of sorting holy from unholy; it is essentially finding value in what appears to be full of waste. Yet this can only occur when we transcend our lower self and act on cue with our Divine higher self. How so? Surrendering our own personal desires enables us to see through the ‘mud’ and recognize the ‘treasure’ within.
The second part of the process is tikkun. This step entails connecting the holy spark to its proper place. An amazing phenomenon occurs at this stage; the outer shell illuminates as a result of the intense light glowing from within. In effect, the outer impure shell of darkness is transformed into light and the casing itself is elevated into a G-dly artifact.
Any time we find ourselves in certain places or forced to endure specific circumstances we must know that we have been lead to the vicinity to those holy sparks that personally belong to our soul’s rectification. For example if we have been offered a certain healing remedy, been advised to visit a certain person or visit a certain location, we should know that we have been summoned to it to fulfill our G-dly task in this world of redeeming those particular holy sparks.
An important lesson that we must always remember, predominantly in our generation of difficult nisyonot, is: the greater the challenge, the greater the holy spark to redeem.
