My short trip this week
This week I traveled to New York for a day of meetings.
When I walked through the door of my parents apartment, my father asked his usual questions: “How was your flight?”, “who did you sit next to?" and of course: "Did you meet anyone you know?”
There I was, talking about my journey, without having yet fully arrived at my destination.
In essence however, I should thank my Dad for reminding me of this important lesson. Too often we fail to capture the 'here and now' because our eyes are so intensely focused on our goals and desired destinations. This tends to creep up all the time, in our family lives and professional lives - we just want to 'get there already!'.
The Torah however (in this week’s reading) reminds us that in the great journey of life we must cherish each step along the way. Each twist and turn and what we may presume as a mere ‘stopover’, is in fact loaded with purpose and significance.
Each leg of life's journey is brimming with potential, which may actually be the reason we set out to travel in the first place!
Even while on vacation, pay attention to your surroundings, there may be someone or something there calling your name, waiting for you to make a lasting impression.
Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Yossi Zaklikofsky