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against its will, coming from the most elevated place, under the
Heavenly Throne.

The Mishnah continues, “Against your will, you will die.” Once the
neshamah has tasted of the pleasures of this world, it does not want
to leave.

Hashem escorts a person in his perilous journey in this world. The
neshamah within him recalls its Heavenly source and helps him connect
to spirituality and sanctity. Man’s constant battle is whether to allow his
neshamah to draw him upward, or to let his body pull him downward.
The tzaddikim of old constantly felt Hashem’s Presence with them, for
they abandoned materialism in favor of their spiritual side.

The Torah and mitzvot are what protect a person as he traverses the road
of life.

“Blessed are you in your coming and blessed shall you be in your going.”
Rashi comments, “Your departure from the world should be without sin,
like your coming into the world.” It takes a lifetime of work to merit
departing with a clean slate, worthy of eternal reward.

“It will be when you enter the Land that
Hashem, your G-d, gives you as an inheritance,
and you take possession of it, and dwell in it,
that you shall take of the first of every fruit of

the ground that you bring in from your land
that Hashem, your G-d, gives you, and you shall