Yesterday, we quoted the Midrash that says, “God opened up the eyes of Hagar and she saw the wellspring.” We learned from here that, Everyone is considered blind until God opens up their eyes. The Sfat Emet, in sefer Bereshit Parashat Vayera quotes from his grandfather, the Hiddushei HaRim, that this shows us another important lesson, which is that Everything that a person needs is already there. He just needs to have his eyes open to see it.
And this is not just physically. This is spiritually as well, as the pasuk says, “Open up my eyes and let me see the wonders of Your Torah.”
That means the wonders are here already. Everything's here, and that gives tremendous hizuk. Rav Wolbe would say this as well. Why is it that the child is taught all the Torah before he's born?
To let you know you don't have to look and search from the outside, worrying, ‘Where am I going to get this from? How I going to find the right teacher? How I going to find the right guide in life?’
It's all here. Everything is here inside of you. You don't see it now, but God can open up your eyes. The Sfat Emet continues and says man was created in the image of God, and therefore, he can see God in himself. That's why it says about Abraham Avinu, “I saw God from my own flesh.” When Abraham Avinu learned the Torah, where did he get it from? From inside of him.
There are 613 mitzvot- 248 positive commandments and 165 negative commandments, and the human body has 248 organs and 365 sinews and tendons, which means the human body corresponds to the Torah, and if my eyes are open, I can see everything inside of me. It’s just that it's covered up. We need to ask Hashem to reveal to us what's already there. This is the source of answers to every problem. Like it says, God creates the antidote before the disease. That means the cure is here already. You just need your eyes to be opened. This is true in any challenge-we already have the answer to the problem before the problem was created. You just have to have your eyes open up and find the solution. We said in the past that certain problems don't necessarily have solutions. We’ll discuss that as well soon. But this also is the answer.
Sometimes your eyes are open to see that the answer to the problem might be the solution. Lo alenu, sometimes a person's in a situation where there is no way out, Lo Alenu, and that is where they're supposed to be. But you need your eyes opened.
This is an extremely important concept to know- that you don't need to search and go to the other end of the world to find whatever you need to find.
There’s a pasuk when God talks about Teshuvah, that says, “It's not in the heavens,” that you'll have to say, who's going to go up to the heavens? “ and it’s not on the other side of the ocean,”that you’d say, who's going to go across the ocean to find it for me? and all other extremes. Where is it?
“It's inside of your heart and inside of your mouth.” So what's the problem?
If it's all there already, why are we having such a challenge?
The answer is, it's all there already, but it's hidden. You need God to open up your eyes to see.
And until that happens, you're not going to see it.
I can't stress enough how important this is. You could have someone that's trying to understand a problem, or trying to learn a topic, someone looking for a shidduch, or someone that's looking for the right business partner, or looking for whatever they're looking for.
Sometimes it's the girl across the street, or the man down the block and you wonder? “How come I didn't think of it until now?” You know why? Because you didn't have your eyes open. This is an important prayer that certain people that say in the morning before they learn. גַּל־עֵינַ֥י וְאַבִּ֑יטָה נִ֝פְלָא֗וֹת מִתּוֹרָתֶֽךָ
“Open my eyes that I can see the wonders of your Torah.
That was a prayer that David Hamelech made ( Tehilim 119,18)