Closer Than We Think — What Torah Is Trying to Make of Us - Nesavim

As we approach

Rosh Hashanah, we naturally begin thinking about what needs fixing. The

mistakes we need to correct. The habits we need to break. The parts of

ourselves that still need work. But what if that is only half the story? What

if Torah was not given merely to make us less bad, but to help us

discover how much greater we are capable of becoming?

In

this morning’s Breakfast & Class,

we explore a remarkable teaching of Rabbi Frand built around the words לֹא בַשָּׁמַיִם הִוא — “It is not in

Heaven.” Why did HaShem

create us unfinished? Why does the Torah hide an allusion to milah

inside the words “Who will ascend for us to Heaven?” And if the angels have no