Naso
The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Parashat Naso, read on Shabbat Naso — with one of this week's three questions for the two of you.
Birkat Kohanim, the threefold priestly blessing, sits at the heart of this week's parsha. The Rebbe makes a point about it that quietly reshapes how we think about being a blessing to anyone we love. The kohen does not generate the blessing from his own resources. He stands at the doorway, opens his hands, and lets it flow through him from above. He is a vessel — not a source. And his only real task is to be the kind of vessel that does not block what wants to flow. Marriage, the Rebbe's teaching suggests, asks something similar of us. We are not called to be each other's source of strength, of healing, of meaning — that is too heavy a burden, and it is not ours to carry. We are called to be unobstructed channels for the blessing that wants to reach our spouse through us.
When you have most needed a blessing this past month — a steadying word, a reassurance, a piece of strength — was it something I could give from my own resources, or something that needed to come through me from somewhere larger?
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