Who Really Cares About You?
Did you ever consider who really cares about you? Have you thought about who you should care about and why?
What would happen if G-d forbid you did not have your wealth, your special talent, personality or any thing that you have that is currently attracting people to you, fame, power etc. Who would still care for you and about you? I hope you would still have some friends.
The people who really care about you don’t care so much about those external matters, rather they are concerned and love you, the inner you.
And it works the same way with whom you should care about and love, not just the people who benefit you or the people you get something from, but rather you should care about people because you care about them.
I once heard a saying that “you can judge a person by the way they treat people that they have no benefit from”.
G-d demonstrates that for us in his commitment to us regardless of what happens to us. G-d promises us that he will never abandon us no matter how far we stray. As our prophets tell us, “No Jew will be left behind”. G-d’s commitment to us is unconditional.
In this weeks Torah portion G-d sends Moses to save the Jewish people. The Midrash tells us that the Jewish people had become immersed in the idolatrous practices of Egypt, to the extent that for some of them it was hard to distinguish them from their Egyptian neighbors.
Yet G-d kept his promise that He made to Abraham and took the Jewish people out of Egypt.
This is how we are to treat one another. To care for them not for what they can do for us but rather because they are our fellow Jew, our fellow human being.
As we get closer to the time when this will not just be a dream but a global reality let us do our small part in making it real in our life which will affect the rest of the world.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Zalman Marcus