Dvarim
Don't miss the lifetime of your opportunity
Don't miss the lifetime of your opportunity
1. This week we begin Sefer Dvarim ( book of Deuteronomy). The majority of the Sefer is a speech given my Moshe to the people before they enter Israel. Moshe begins by recalling the incident of the spies.
2. Why does Moshe bring up the spies if he is addressing a different generation? The very people who were involved with the spies were not allowed to enter Israel because they cried during the spies report and had all died by this time. The event of the spies occurred on Tisha B’av.
3. Moshe is teaching a valuable lesson regarding missed opportunities. The reason he started with the cautionary tale of the spies is because it is what defined the previous generation who had to wait and missed the opportunity of a lifetime. This generation was now at the same point preparing to enter the Holy Land.
4. Moshe is warning the people who are about to go into the Holy Land that they need to realize what a unique opportunity they have infront of them. Don’t let your life be defined by missed opportunities.
2. Why does Moshe bring up the spies if he is addressing a different generation? The very people who were involved with the spies were not allowed to enter Israel because they cried during the spies report and had all died by this time. The event of the spies occurred on Tisha B’av.
3. Moshe is teaching a valuable lesson regarding missed opportunities. The reason he started with the cautionary tale of the spies is because it is what defined the previous generation who had to wait and missed the opportunity of a lifetime. This generation was now at the same point preparing to enter the Holy Land.
4. Moshe is warning the people who are about to go into the Holy Land that they need to realize what a unique opportunity they have infront of them. Don’t let your life be defined by missed opportunities.
“Look, if you had, one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip?” -Marshal Mathers
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip?” -Marshal Mathers
*The Diving bell and the butterfly was written entirely by a man confined to his bed , blinking one letter at a time . Jean-Dominique Bauby is the author and he suffered from locked in syndrome. He could only move his left eye the rest of his body was paralyzed. He was the former Editor and chief of a French magazine and because of his condition he could only communicate thru blinking.
In one story he is told about a fix in a horse race and he tries to make it to the track to place a bet on Mithra-granchamp. He missed placing the bet for his entire office.
“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.”
―Jean-Dominique Bauby
Shabbat Shalom U'mivorach,
Daniel
Bonus Question: What is the connection between this story and Tisha B'av?
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