Last Tuesday, September 8th, Rabbi Isaac Sacca gave a virtual conference as a special guest of the Vaad Hakehilot, Federation of Argentine Israelite Communities, within a series of conferences alluding to the month of Elul, prior to the High Holidays.
Vanesa Jatembliasky, coordinator of Vaad Hakehilot, led the event. Rabbi Eliahu Hambra, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the Argentine Republic, and Shraga Wilk, representative of the world Zionist organization in Argentina also attended the meeting.
Rabbi Isaac talked about crises as a mechanism to be able to make a balance and a reconstruction from them.
He stressed out the importance of learning from each situation that we have to live, because although crises often seem to be problems; they are the mechanism that make us activate, make us discover paths, internal forces that we did not have. Crises build us.
He pointed out that in Genesis the Torah relates that the earth was in turmoil (tou babou); it was chaos. On that chaos God built the world, the order, progress, the birds,the creatures, the human being, nature. There is a reconstruction on the chaos. Crises make us stronger.
He explained that we are on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, where we must build a new year, a new stage. To build a new year of blessing, harmony and peace, it is necessary to celebrate a Yom Hadin, a day of justice; evaluate and see our crises, analyze and investigate what we do not like and make a balance of our behavior in order to change. To err is human; From the judgment, from our own evaluation, we can positively generate the construction of the new year.
Finally, he advised positioning oneself on the correct path so as not to make so many mistakes, having a correct scheme of priorities in values. As he pointed out, the crisis is what makes us build, but we must add a touch of beauty to everything altruistic and related to the spiritual, so that the constructions we make in our lives remain. Make Shabbat a more pleasant Shabbat, make the synagogue a more beautiful place, make schools a welcoming place.
Watch the complete conference aquí.
