What Does YOUR Name represent?
I know, I know. It’s already after Shabbos. Its already after Purim. I just didn’t get my act together before Friday…and on Friday, well, let’s just say that I wasn’t fully focused.
So, just a quick thought from today’s parsha. God is appointing Bezalel to build the Mishkan. He could have just said that He is calling upon Bezalel. But nooooo. He is calling upon the name of Bezalel. “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri”1. That word “by name” seems superfluous. Rabbi Shimshon Hirsch explains that Bezalel was called specifically due to his knowledge and experience in the matter of building. His name represented more than just his body. It represented his unique essence.
We all have a unique essence, says psychologist Dr. Viktor Frankl. Each person has a different uniqueness and is therefore challenged to discover that particular calling that he has based on his or her own uniqueness or as Frankl calls it, “his essential uniqueness. This uniqueness is the constitutive characteristic of personhood.”
Who are you? What does your name represent?? How will we answer that question? What a refreshing question to be asked and finding the answer can be as much fun as it may be frustrating. But it is comforting knowing that it is there – we just need to find it.
So, let’s keep it short and end on this note, that we all have unique meaning potentials to fulfil in this life. Let’s do it!!
Image by Maicon Fonseca Zanco from Pixabay
Footnotes
- Shemot 31:2 (chabad translation)
- Frankl, Viktor E.. The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism (p. 62). Touchstone. Kindle Edition.
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