You are what You Think
(a Torah thought by Moshe Feiglin)
http://www.jewishisrael.org/eng_contents/update/5771/7109.htm
aNNa’S NoTe: I collect little ‘lessons’ like this and put them in my Bible. This is DEFINITELY going in today!
And the messengers returned to Jacob and said: We have come to your brother, to Esau and he is also coming to meet you and four hundred men are with him. And Jacob was very frightened and he was distressed and he divided the people that were with him and the sheep and the cattle and the camels to two camps. (Genesis 32:7-8)
“And he was very frightened and he was distressed.” Why write the same thing twice? We understand that Jacob was frightened, we understand that he was feeling pressured. Why re-emphasize this as two separate issues?
There are many answers given to this question. But one Chassidic commentary captured my eye. “And he was distressed -” because he was frightened. Jacob naturally reacted toward Esau with fear. But immediately afterwards, he felt great sorrow [distress] for having felt fear.
A person is where his thoughts are. If you feel that you belong in Israel and that this Land is yours, then you are not afraid. Your internal world projects to your surroundings, reflecting as a world that is, indeed, not dangerous.
It all begins and ends in the world we create inside our heads and hearts.
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