Aug 7, 2026 · 2 min · 5 segments
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So in this week's parsha, Parshas Reeh starts off with a very interesting wording.
Moshe says to the Jewish people, "Reeh anochi nosen lifnechem hayom beracha uk'lal." See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse.
Notice that Moshe uses the word reeh, which means see.
He doesn't say listen or understand.
He tells them to look.
Why does he say look with your eyes? In Rabbi Moskowitz's Three Ideas in 30 Minutes podcast, he explains that life is all about perspective, how we choose to look at things.
Every single day, we run into different situations.
Some days are great and some days are hard, but a lot of how we feel depends on the glasses we put on.
Think about it when you are given a hard job or a difficult task.
One person may look at it and complain about how much work it is.
Another person may look at the very same job and see a chance to learn something new or to help a friend.
The task not change at all, but the way they looked at it, it changed everything.
If we look at a challenge and only see a problem, it feels like a curse, but if you choose to look closer and search for the good, we could turn that same situation into a blessing.
Moshe is telling us that Hashem places choices in front of us all of the time, but before we can make the right choice, we have to clear our eyes and choose to see the good.
So the lesson from Parshas Reeh is we cannot always control what happens to us, but we can always control about how we look at it.
Maybe this week, let's try to look at our lives with blessing glasses, then finding the good in other people, in hard situations, and in our everyday lives.
So in this week's parsha, Parshas Reeh starts off with a very interesting wording.
Moshe says to the Jewish people, "Reeh anochi nosen lifnechem hayom beracha uk'lal." See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse.
Notice that Moshe uses the word reeh, which means see.
He doesn't say listen or understand.
He tells them to look.
Why does he say look with your eyes? In Rabbi Moskowitz's Three Ideas in 30 Minutes podcast, he explains that life is all about perspective, how we choose to look at things.
Every single day, we run into different situations.
Some days are great and some days are hard, but a lot of how we feel depends on the glasses we put on.
Think about it when you are given a hard job or a difficult task.
One person may look at it and complain about how much work it is.
Another person may look at the very same job and see a chance to learn something new or to help a friend.
The task not change at all, but the way they looked at it, it changed everything.
If we look at a challenge and only see a problem, it feels like a curse, but if you choose to look closer and search for the good, we could turn that same situation into a blessing.
Moshe is telling us that Hashem places choices in front of us all of the time, but before we can make the right choice, we have to clear our eyes and choose to see the good.
So the lesson from Parshas Reeh is we cannot always control what happens to us, but we can always control about how we look at it.
Maybe this week, let's try to look at our lives with blessing glasses, then finding the good in other people, in hard situations, and in our everyday lives.
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