Well, it is finally here. The snow, that is.
After waiting so long, all the necessary ingredients were in place. The temperature, the precipitation, the clouds, even the pressure level. And then it all fell.
And when it falls – besides the commute to work and having the kids go to school 2 hours late – it is such a beautiful thing!
If you were up early enough, before the traffic started, and you looked outside your window, all you saw is one big sheet of white. It started at the end of the block and then when up a drop at the curb, a lot more where the car was last night and then totally engulfed your house.
It is the most pristine sight you will find in Commack in February.
Snow just falls from the sky and doesn’t discriminate where it will fall. The high places, the low places, the houses or the cars.
The Kaballah says that the Torah is compared to water. Why is that?
One reason is that just like the water (rain) comes from higher grounds and goes lower without changing, so to the Torah comes from the highest of all places (G-d’s intelligence) and comes all the way down here to earth.
But more then that. The Torah doesn’t make a difference where it falls. It falls in all places equally. And it is able to become a unifying factor bringing all the different things in the world together and showing how they are truly one.
The Torah allows us to look beyond our differences and see what we all have in common. We connect to our soul and when we do that, and fully connect to G-d, we reach a place that there we don’t notice any outward details that might separate us.
It shows us how we all can access the Torah if we would only try.
And when we do…it is the most beautiful and serene sight you will ever see.