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Watch the YouParsha Eikev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FzQrkYuF3I The Portion of the Levites is Hashem
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Moshe continues his soliloquy in Parshas Eikev 7:12 - 11:25. Much of the Parsha focuses on Moshe on Mount Sinai for 40 days. Earlier, Moshe commented that for 40 days and 40 nights he did not eat bread or drink water. The commentaries explain that living without physical nourishment is indicative of the world to come with Moshiach. We eat in order to derive caloric energy from the food. Moshe then, and we in the Messianic era, will not need the intermediate of food to derive energy as we will be nourished directly from Hashem.
There is a discussion among the commentaries as to what is the final part of the Messianic era. Rambam maintains that at some point after the resurrection, the soul will divest itself of the body. Having lost the limiting nature of the body, the unbridled soul will be able to appreciate the infiniteness of Hashem. The nuance will be that soul will recognize itself but see itself as part of Hashem (Souls that have divested their bodies now, perceive only a measured amount of Hashem's infinity. They do not consider themselves part of Hashem).
Ramban and others maintain that the ultimate experience of the Messianic era occurs specifically while the soul is within the limits of the body. The soul and physical body will perceive their own existence while being completely incorporated in Hashem's infiniteness. This view indicates that three dimensions will pose no contradiction to infinity. We will see three dimensional objects while perceiving Hashem's infinity that is causing that item to exist.
It is therefore understood why there will be no need for physical amenities once Moshiach comes. The world in its limitations will be expanded to infinity. We just need to want it.
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Rabbi Eli Gutnick is a Chabad sofer (scribe) working in Melbourne, Australia. One day, Mr. Leon Schnall came to see him, together with his rabbi, to buy many mezuzot for his new home. Rabbi Gutnick gave Leon the choice of two types of mezuzot: standard mezuzot, which would cost at total of $630, or higher quality mezuzot, which would cost a total of $810.
Unsure, he asked his rabbi which ones he should get. His rabbi explained to him the idea of hiddur mitzvah -- that if you spend extra effort or money to enhance the fulfillment of a commandment, "G’d will repay you." Leon chose to purchase the higher quality mezuzot and paid the $810.
Some weeks later, Rabbi Gutnick got a phone call from Leon, who excitedly told him an amazing story. When he had come to buy mezuzot, he was putting his old home on the market. Initially, the real estate agents had told him he could expect to receive between $600,000 and $660,000 for the unit. Then, on the morning of the auction, the agent confirmed to Leon that he could expect to get "around $630,000" (the amount exactly between the earlier estimated 600k & 660k). Unexpectedly, the unit sold for a whopping $810,000.
A few hours after the auction, still stunned by his good fortune, Leon was sitting at the upshernisht (the first haircut at the age of 3 years old) of his rabbi's son. It was there that he remembered the words of his rabbi, that "G’d will repay you," and realized that the amount he received at the auction corresponded perfectly with one thousand times the price of the higher quality mezuzot he had recently purchased!
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