10/6/2026 - Elly Slomowitz / Beraishis - a new beginning for all

So we know that man was created as a hybrid.

We have a guf, and we have a neshamah.

We need to bring out our neshamah.

We can't just focus on the guf, on the earthly matters.

Man, with our neshamah, we are limitless.

Our potential has no limits.

In fact, we're greater than malachim.

Angels are standing still.

They can't grow higher and higher, yet we could.

To take that a step further, you might think that the first commandment that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave Adam was not to eat from the Etz Hadaas.

But that's not true, says the Meshech Chochmah.

First, Hashem told Adam, "You could eat from all the trees, the goodness of the trees, except from the Etz Hadaas." So really, it's not that it was told to him, "No, no, no, no." We have to understand, Judaism is not a strictly prohibition.

It's not.

First, Hashem gives us the good.

Take, for example, Shabbos.

You might think Shabbos is a series of no, no, no, no, no, thirty-nine melachos.

You can't do this, you can't do that, but that's not true.

We see that in the creation of the world, really the world was supposed to stop after six days.

Hashem gave us Shabbos.

Shabbos was the cement.

Shabbos brought everything together.

That's the foundation.

And we all know the beauty that lives in Shabbos.

You have so many opportunities to detach from your day-to-day activities.

You could connect with your family, spend more time in shul.