Rabbi Trugman said that because Ki Teitzei comes out
so close to the High Holy Days, we can look at the words about going out to war
against our enemy, and think of them in reference to our soul and inner force.
He asked, “Where does the Jew find the strength to go out
into the world and fulfill the injunction to be a ‘light unto the nations’
(Isaiah 42:6)? As we learn in Bereishit, the actions of our forefathers
engraved this lesson on our collective consciousness.”
“Abraham consistently found the strength to follow G-d, no
matter what stumbling blocs were placed before him. He left his country and
family to venture forth into the unknown, wherever G-d directed him.”
“After arriving in the Land
of Canaan , famine forced him to leave
for Egypt ,
but he returned wealthier than before.”
“…Abraham’s devotion paved the way for Israel to leave Egypt
in the middle of the night, to follow G-d into the desert and the great unknown
and ultimately to enter the Land
of Israel
Rabbi Trugman continued, “When Abraham complained to G-d
that he had no children to continue his work G-d ‘took him outside’ where he
showed him the stars and promised him that his progeny would be as numerous as
the stars.”
He explained, “The Hebrew word for took (hotzi) has
the same root as the name of our portion (teitzei). As we learned in Lech
Lecha, G-d taught Abraham that he needed to go outside of his nature, to go
above the stars…This power is the inheritance of every Jew – but each and every
Jew must work hard to bring that potential to fruition in his own life.”
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