SHMAIS is a Virgin

OK, I got your attention for this weeks Sicha.

My example on display today is Shmais’ Levi Chadokov. Case study number 476. I remember back in the day when people use to make fun of this “bored soul.” Why is he going around taking pictures? He should get a life!

But there is something about Levi that will make him successful in whatever he does. Devotion. Not only devotion but he lives whatever he does. He eats, drinks and dreams about Shmais.com. When he works in Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, you might not see him that often, but his devotion transforms him into Gan Yisroel. He is Gan Yisroel. That’s why on the last day of camp you’ll always see him with red eyes and endless tears. Whatever he does means more than work to him.

Now, people watch what they say in front of him. He turned himself into a respectable journalist with power. The power to get any message or news he’d like to thousands of homes, offices, and as we saw in his recent poll, libraries. Ya, a lot of people check him in the library. That was a shock for me. Because of him living SNS he turned it into a successful and often imitated enterprise.

In this weeks Sicha we learn about the oil that was used for the Menorah. Of the three kinds of oils we used the first drops of the olive – virgin oil.

As it is known that we all have a small Beis Hamikdash and Mishkan in us, what is the virgin oil within us?

In Torah there are three levels – water (revealed Torah), wine (concealed part of the Torah) and oil (the concealed of the concealed.) In each level there is also the above three sub-levels.

As we learned in smicha, the great distinction between oil and its counterparts is that oil is “Mifafaya” – it permeates everywhere.

There can be someone that learns the “wine” and “water” parts of Torah and then do the exact opposite that he learned with his actions. That’s because wine and water just takes up the space it’s in then and there. It has the ability to not seep in.

The virgin oil part of Torah, however, really gets inside of the person. It travels under the ego radar, thereby, letting the person internalize the learning. Even if it’s the water of the virgin oil, the water gets special “wings” that it would normally not have.

That’s why learning Chassidus can not only stimulate the mind, but change the individual for the better.

The only read way of success is by living what we do. We must learn with that same devotion and passion as Levi. We must live it… Some day, hopefully.