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One Minute Of Torah
The 3 Layers Of "I Am To My Beloved"
Who Do You Work For?
Who Do you love?
Who do you belong to?
Who are you anyway?
Good Morning!
The word Elul has four letters that form the beginning of five sentences in the Torah, sentences about 1) Prayer 2) Torah study 3) Kindness 4) Teshuva or Returning to G-d and 5) Geula
; Freedom.
Each of these sentences highlights the focus and energy of this month.
On the surface these five components work together as follows: In Elul you are empowered to upgrade your Torah study your prayers and your acts of kindness. If you have failed something in the past you can return to G-d and correct it, and through this effort you bring redemption and the coming of Moshiach.
But the truth is that there's a deeper relationship between four and five and one two and three.
Think about the acronym "I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me," the acronym of Elul.
What does I am to my beloved mean?
It means three things. I accept the sovereignty of my beloved and I must do the service of 1,2,& 3 of prayer Torah and kindness. But I am to my BELOVED also means that I am not forced. My devotion to my beloved is imbued with love, with "4" with Teshuva, I am interested in being connected to my BELOVED while I pray and study and give charity.
But the highest meaning of I am to my beloved means that I lose myself. I, my whole being is about my beloved and is one with my beloved. That's the main and fifth acronym of Elul, redemption, to be free from it all, from all my inhibitions limitations and constraints and to become one with my beloved.
I am not only doing service, albeit a service of love, I understand how I and G-d are one. So whatever it is, is about Him. This is what #5, freedom and Moshiach is about, when this will be fully realized and manifest.