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Rabbi Benjy Morgan Executive Director of JLE
The author can be contacted at rabbimorgan@jle.org.uk
Achieving ultimate success
Beha’aloscha es Haneiros Making each step count. As we head towards the summer, the final stretch of the year, culminating with chodesh Elul – we are often left with a simple question – where did the Kabbalos from Neilah of last year go? How come we were unable to sustain them – again!! The secret to really unlocking growth may lie in the Rashi on the first pasuk of this week’s Parsha. Rashi tells us about the disillusionment of Aharon – “Nischalshah daato” How he saw others bring much greater gifts than him - Hashem consolation – “Shelcha gedolah mishelahem” – yours is greater – why? “She’atah madlick umeitiv es haneiros tamid” – “you get to light the menorah constantly”. The obvious question is, why and how is that a consolation? To light a candle every day, how is that equivalent to huge gifts at an inauguration of the Mishkan? Hold that thought for a minute. Let’s go to another well-known story, the story that we are told of Rebbi Akiva, and how at age forty he changed his life around. Chazal tell us that Rebbi Akiva once saw the erosion caused by water falling on a rock. He exclaimed “If that stone was impacted in the way that it has been by that water, I too can change” and off he went to become one of the greatest of all time. The question my Rebbe once asked is “what exactly did Rebbi Akiva see? What inspired him to change from the water on a rock?” The idea is simple yet profound. Rebbi Akiva saw the impression the water had made on that rock. Asked Rebbi Akiva “if all the water from the beginning of the creation of the world, until now would have been poured on that rock, what would have happened? Nothing. Perhaps it would have shattered the stone to pieces, or it would have made no impression at all”.
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It’s only because it was one drop and then another and then another, that allowed the real impression to be made. Rebbi Akiva couldn’t become a Gadol Hador overnight. But could he do one small step? Learn one letter of Aleph Beis? Yes. That he could do, he thought to himself, so that’s what he did. He took one step – and then another and then another – and over 24 years we know what immensity he accomplished. Often in our own lives we feel overwhelmed by the amount of work it takes to achieve our dreams. Other times we make statements like “I’m going to do everything – now!” And then we fail to actualise. Rebbi Akiva taught us – that one step at a time – progressively over many years – great things can be achieved. In a moment of chutzpah, I once mentioned to my Rosh Yeshiva Harav Meir Stern Shlita of Passaic NJ, “I want to be great like you!” He said to me, “You’ll never be great like me, however, you can be great like you!” “How do I do that?” “Think about what you want to achieve. Then ask yourself what can you really do. Then halve it! Then over time, double it, and then double it again, every day, every week – and ultimately you will achieve”. That is the secret of success. We want results , and we want them now. Lose weight now! Make money now! And become a Tzaddik overnight. It doesn’t work that way and it’s not maintainable. “Tzaddik Katamar Yifrach” – “A Tamar takes a long time to grow, but over a lifetime it reached great heights” . That is how Rebbi Akiva became the Gadol he was. Says Hashem to Aharon – “yours is greater than theirs!” Anyone can do a quick spurt of growth – a one off dedication – it’s you who will light the candles daily, the Avodah of lighting that menorah – that is the avodah of tmidus that Hashem really desires from us and that can attain the actual and real results. Perhaps this year at Neilah, instead of saying we will change everything, we must take the Rosh Yeshiva’s advice, change one thing - one small thing (as part of an overall plan for greatness) and over time become the greatest – beyond our wildest dreams.
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