Routine Renewal by Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi
The Ramban has a very famous interpretation in this week’s Parasha. It’s so famous that it received a nickname: “Ramban at the end of Bo.” The Ramban says there that a person has no place in the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu until he believes with his whole being that everything around him is a miracle!
Amazing. If you do not get up each morning and say “it’s a miracle I woke up, that I have a home, that I am in the land of Israel” you don’t have a place in the Torah of Moshe…
That is why the first Mitzva that God gives us is to sanctify the new moon, focusing on the ability to make something new out of an existing reality; “This month is for you.” You will see the same old moon and give thanks for it’s renewal.
And this Mitzva will wait for you until this week, Parashat Bo in the book of Exodus, instead of having it by the Creation of the World. Because this later renewal is more special to us than the Creation of the world itself!
It is not enough to be created. Now be creative, find the wonderful new things in that which is already created.
The ability to see the same sight over and over again and still say: Wow, this is phenomenal. A miracle!
This is also a message for relationships.
We learn from the Hebrew word for month, chodesh, that everything loses the sense of “newness” (chadash) after 30 days. That is why the meeting of a man and a woman is renewed every month, because it’s not possible to let 30 days pass without something new happening in old relationships.
This month, this renewal, a gift for you.
Translated by Albina Ginzburg.
From Rabbanit Yemima’s Yearly desk calendar written together with Yikrat Friedman.
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We learn from the Hebrew word for month, chodesh, that everything loses the sense of “newness” (chadash) after 30 days. That is why the meeting of a man and a woman is renewed every month. Wow!