I wrote a bit about being a music director @ WMUC & playing NYC jazz clubs.. But I mostly wrote about the incredible journey of Moshe.
Moshe felt & knew that he wasn’t Egyptian, despite his upbringing and surroundings, he knew he was an Israelite. Moshe had an attachment to Yocheved & her children. He later found out he was her son and they, his siblings. As the saying goes, the truth always comes out in the end. It was then that, “Moshe grew up, and he went out to his brethren and saw their suffering.” Later in the parashah, it says “Hashem saw that he turned aside to see” referring to Moshe’s leaving his own comforts to see the pain and suffering of others and acting on it. This is what made Moshe worthy of being the redeemer and leader of B’nei Yisrael. It’s something we all need to continuously learn from: it’s not enough to see & feel empathetic toward someone else’s suffering, but we must also act on it, and work to redeem the ones who are suffering.
We have to remember that to bring the redemptive state, we need to constantly refine our bitachon (trust), so that we truly believe, as we can only bring others to the truth when we’re fully immersed in it ourselves. Truth in Hebrew is emet (אמת), which is the first, middle and last letter of the aleph bet, paralleling what is written in Isaiah, “I am the First & I am the Last, & besides Me there is no god.” There is nothing but Hashem, the truth, Oneness, represented by aleph (א). To remove aleph from emet (אמת) is to be left with met (מת) which means “death.” The other side of truth is the Sitra Achra, which represents the opposite of life, the opposite of truth and opposes Hashem by concealing Oneness.
It may feel that our generation is at a lower level than the previous, but we’re actually standing on the good deeds of those that came before us, connected to their souls & our ascents and our final redemption comes from the previous hardships and the ascents that came from the descents. We’re now in the time of the final redemption, closer than we’ve ever been. We need to tap into that reality, that truth, that Oneness, and reveal what has previously been concealed, because the revelation is becoming clearer than it’s ever been!
Thanks for reading! 
Much love & Shabbat Shalom! 
- Erez


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Rescue The Needy (exodus: shmot)

Light of Infinite is a blog, a podcast, a festival and a soon to be released book series, where Erez Safar acts as Your Spiritual DJ, curating insights into the weekly Torah portion and the infinite light of Kabbalah.

The project began on the Yartzeit (yearly memorial) of my ex wife’s mother’s passing, and it’s inspired by both her (Yehudis Chava bat Yakov Dov) and my mother (Frida Levona bat Shalom), who passed the same year. When I think of these women, I think of tzedaka and chesed, words that are hard to translate because they capture the real depths of words like ‘generous’, ‘giving’, ‘loving’, and ‘kindness’. These two women embodied and exemplified these qualities to an angelic degree: so full of life, love, warmth, and light, at every turn, every single moment. Being around them inspired me to be more loving, more giving, more full of a zest for each moment in life.

My goal with this ongoing project is to spread that inspiration and Light that I received and still receive from them. Using each week’s Torah portion, delving deep into the text, the commentaries, and the Kabbalah connected to it, I’ll share insights that bring that inspiration and Light to life for me, and will hopefully do the same for you.

As DJ Shadow sampled on his seminal record, Entroducing, “It’s not me that’s coming through– the music’s coming through me”. With that said, I do not take any recognition for any part of the material except the writing style. The recognition is meant for the Holy One, Blessed Be He, and the Giants of Torah that reveal the the Light of Infinite in a way that only they can. So, I would like to give thanks to some of the Chassidic Masters and Rabbis that I draw the most inspiration from, whose wisdom I’m attempting to bring down and make accessible. These include Reb Nachman & Reb Nosson Mi’Breslov, The Arizal, The Ba’al Shem Tov, R’Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the Rebbe), Carlebach, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and so many others.

I hope that these words inspire you to delve deeper into the Torah and kabbalisitc texts, and, as Chaim Vital says, “One can go deeper and deeper, as far as the human mind can delve, and it will always yield new treasures.”

Light of Infinite is an upcoming book series where I act as your spiritual DJ, curating insights into the weekly Torah portion and the infinite light of Kabbalah. The sefer (book) will include newly edited, and in some cases, expanded text on the weekly parashah. There will also be a section on key concepts of Kabbalah as well as a section that includes stories and info on some of my favorite Rebbe’s.

Rescue The Needy (exodus: shmot)

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