A message of reflection with Rabbi Sidney Helbraun
When the Israelite scouts returned from surveying the Promised Land, the majority reported that though it was filled with milk and honey, the people who dwelled there were greater than them and “they appeared to themselves as grasshoppers.”
In times of transition and change, it is easy to imagine the challenges ahead as larger than life – insurmountable. But rather than reality, this vision reflects a lack of self-confidence, not an implacable foe.
During uncertain times we are called on, not only to have faith in God, but to trust in our own strength and ability; to remember that we are destined to bring light into the world.
Rabbi Sidney M. Helbraun, Temple Beth-El, Northbrook |