Are we guarantor's?!?

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In this week’s Parsha, HaShem chooses the descendants of Israel to be His “kingdom of priests” and “holy nation”, as HaShem tells Moshe (Shemos - Exodus 19, 5-6):

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And now, if you obey Me and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a treasure out of all peoples, for Mine is the entire earth.

And you shall be to Me a kingdom of princes and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel.

The Sefas Emes quotes the Midrash in (27, 9) where our sages teach us, that HaShem says that we – Am Yisarel – are the guarantors that we shall keep the Torah.

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The Sefas Emes asks though, that we are the actual borrowers, as we committed and pledged that we will keep the Torah and it's commandments, why does HaShem say that we are the Guarantor's?

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The Sefas Emes answers something life changing, we are guarantor's as well - besides our own duty to keep Torah and Mitzvos – G-D gave us a mission to make the world a better place, it's our duty to rectify the whole creation.

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As in reality, everything depends on us – the Jewish people – when we refine and elevate ourselves, everyone and everything in the world elevates together with us

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This is why the Torah says ???? ?????, when we work on ourselves, the people around us feel it, and they too benefit from it.

Let's remember our mission is, not only to worry for ourselves, but for everyone, as HaShem sent us here to be His Ambassador to this world, as G-D inhaled in each and everyone of us Divine Infinity, it's embedded and implanted within ourselves - whether we feel it or not – it's there!

Written by Moshe Neuwirth