What is a Chévre?

It is a little too easy sometimes to take for granted all the beautiful connections we have in our lives.  Connection with nature.  Connection with community.  Connection with friends.  Connection with family.

Connection with HaShem (God).

How is it that we take these connections for granted??  Well — a person might argue that while for a while he or she thought there was a connection with someone or something, maybe there wasn't a connection to begin with!  Another person might argue that a once-strong connection has been broken.  But anyone who makes such arguments is really only saying one thing:  "I have lost my sense of connection to something or someone that I am inherently connected to."

True connections never, ever break.  Sometimes, something just gets in the way.  And even more often, sometimes we just get distracted by life and turn our attention away from our deepest connections — even forgetting them entirely, God forbid.

But these connections are life itself.  They are the very notes of our souls.  They are the chords of the universe by which our innermost being vibrates.  And to lose sight of them is to lose our own selves — to truly get lost in life.

But the most amazing secret is, that because these connections to people and certain aspects of life are so intrinsic to our Souls, all we have to do is turn our attention back to them, and they are there waiting for us to nurture.  Because True Connections in life can never be broken.  They can only be drifted away from.

They are always there to return to.

Attached please find a Shu-Shine on the Torah portion of Shelach - "What is a Chévre ?"

May we each be blessed to pay special note of those people and aspects of life we most connect to, and to make those connections the priority of our lives and our daily choices.

With Love and a Smile,

~Shu