On Tuesday we celebrated the last day of Pesach which highlights the future redemption and the coming of the Moshiach. This week's Torah portion is all about the service of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) on Yom Kippur and Jewish advocates are waking up the useless idiots sleeping at UCLA's encampment with Hatikvah! Convergences of the strangest proportions.

If you can't beat 'em join 'em. I don't mean joining the useless idiots. I mean living in the absurdity. There is indeed a common thread between all of these things.

Let me explain by way of a basic philosophical example based on Chabad philosophy.

We have varying relationships in which we bring varying layers of ourselves. We can have an intellectual relationship with a mentor, teacher or coach. We can have a deeper emotional relationship with a friend or sibling or child. We can have yet a deeper relationship, an intimate one, with a spouse.

There is a part of us that is even deeper that is beyond even the closeness of intimacy and that is the relationship of soul. This relationship we have with G-d.

In the intellectual relationship if our brains don't align or I'm intolerant of your perspectives the relationship ends. In the emotional relationship, if I no longer enjoy you or feel like my emotions are served in the relationship I pull away. The soul relationship however is an essential one and therefore remains transcendent of all of these external factors. It can even tolerate the absurd.

Yom Kippur is a day of essence when we connect on a soul level.

When the Moshiach comes, our soul connection will be our dominant consciousness.

And the craziness of the world only lives on the most external layers. On an essential level we are ok, the Jewish People are ok and all of this craziness (while it is necessary to deal with it) is a distraction from this truth; that Hashem is in charge, that the Jewish People are eternal and the crazier the world gets the more that truth is all that remains.

Our job is to respond to the craziness with finding the essential within ourselves and letting that shine forth. Proud to be a Jew. Proud to live as a Jew. Proud to do Jewish. Proud to study Jewish.

Good Shabbos!

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