We live in a world filled with colors, many shades and many hues of each color and yet some people walk around in a box unable to open up their eyes and see that. They live as if the world is black and white. They are almost afraid to look up, to look at the sky, to notice the stars or to smell a rose. They think they are being good and doing what is important but they have lost sight of the golden prize, they don't look up, they don't open up their minds or their eyes. They run like little mice on a treadmill patting themselves on the back every hundred spins that they followed the plan.
But, in reality they got lost on the treadmill, lost in the spinning wheel of life and they forgot why we are here in the first place.
This is the color yellow or the way most people perceive the color yellow:
Put "yellow" into a Google Search and you will see this color come up more than another other color.
This color is also yellow:
And, this is yellow... a yellow path with multi-colored yellow bricks:
This rose is yellow, yet it's scent transcends the color or the texture of the rose petal.
Yet, if you put the word "rose" into a Google Search it will show you this to the color "rose"
A rose like a Coke in some parts of the country means more than just one drink or just one thing.
Roses come in all colors:
Notice the name "lemon yellow" ... even yellow has variations, each one of them unique and beautiful.
Why am I talking about colors and roses?
Because Moshiach is what so many people have lost sight of even though it is right in front of their eyes. They look down into a Siddur or into a pot of food they are cooking and they erase the concept from their lives as if it's an extra credit points on a test they won't need as they are sure they will make a 100 and not need the extra credit.
People need to open up their eyes, inhale the scent of a rose, watch falling stars in the sky and touch a blade of grass. They need to reconnect with the beauty of the world and the many ways Hashem is showing us the bigger picture.
What worked years ago in a ghetto in Europe no longer is needed. We are at that point in the movie when Dorothy enters Oz and we are no longer watching a black and white movie... the world is alive in gumdrop colors, like a big bottle of Jelly Bellies... all tastes, all colors, all scents.
It is wonderful to study Torah, it is wonderful to read the Psalms and it is wonderful to do Mitzvahs but we are at that point in time and space when we are living technicolor lives and we need to incorporate Moshiach into our daily world... in the same way every recipe gets a drop of salt or pepper or sugar or spice. Moshiach IS THE SPICE... it is the Scent... it is the beauty that exists around us when we open our eyes and look with Geulah Glasses at the world and not run away to the safety of black and white.
Dorothy started out in black and white or sepia like black and white... wondering on a world where bluebirds fly...
Somewhere over the rainbow...way up high. There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere... over the rainbow... skies are blue and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. Some day I'll wish upon a star....................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU <---song....
Along the way... after the Twister lifted her up out of Golus and dropped her into Oz... a multi-colored world...she met the Scarecrow... the wonderful Scarecrow who explained to her the value of a brain. And, together they set off down the Yellow Brick Road..
We are like Dorothy in ways... on the right road, the yellow brick road on our way to the Emerald City. Except our City is crowned with the Third Temple not a beauty parlor or a spa... but the real thing. Though if you have moved out of your shell ... you know you can paint your nails any color from green to blue to yellow these days...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nauLgZISozs&feature=relmfu <--- Brain song and the Scarecrow, Dorothy's forever friend..
And, finally they make it to their destination... by staying on the Yellow Brick Road and never losing sight of the real reason they started down that journey. They didn't get lost along the way, sit down and plant a garden and live unhappily ever after growing turnips and tomatoes and figuring they'd never make it to Oz... they kept going... despite the darkness, despite the fears of lions and tigers and bears and they kept going. They may have meant well.... but they lost sight of why they were on the road and where they were going.
The color yellow... is bright like sunshine and we need to throw off the cloak of Golus and stop living in a black and white, faded sepia world and begin living in the technicolor world of Geulah.
We need to laugh. We need to dance. We need to love. We need to spread joy and happiness. We NEED to include Moshiach in everything we do in some way... rather than running in circles on a treadmill where we forget why we eat started running or walking down the yellow brick road.
That's how we laugh the day away in the Merry Old Land of Oz...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3W4DTrrPoY&playnext=1&list=PL2A618FA8607E9403&feature=results_main
Oz... a land where horses change colors from purple to yellow to red... and anything is possible if you only believe.
Do you live in a black and white world or one that includes all colors of the rainbow... all shades and hues of yellow?
The Temple has not just gold and not just silver... but silver, gold and copper. Geulah is not a black and white world... or many shades of gray but colorful, beautiful ... incorporate it into your world.
When you sit down to learn Torah with a friend... include a bit of thoughts on Moshiach.
http://www.chabadworld.net/Moshiach.asp
It's easy and it will lift you up and redirect you where you need to be... on the Yellow Brick Road ... don't get off the road.
As the Rebbe said ... a person does not suddenly end up in the forest, he got there step by step after veering off the road. The way out of the forest is step by step the same way he got in... take a step and learn a Moshiach thought before davening, before praying, before saying Psalms or learning Torah with a friend and you will find yourself living Geulah every moment of your daily life.
