Landing on the Moon - Part 4

00:00 Behem shechen continuation to the earlier installments in regards to the landing on the moon, we continue now with installment number four, discussing additional lessons that the Rebbe elaborated on during the fabregen of Shabbos Parsheva Yigasht of Shechoftes, late December nineteen sixty-eight, and these lessons as they are applied in Avedes Hashem. The sichas on this topic were also translated in English and written up, and the Rebbe edited the English version. And it goes as follows. Further, in conjunction with the teachings of the Bashem Tev, that everything that happens can be utilized to help a Yid understand how to serve Hashem, there is another feature of the recent moon flight that is instructive. The scientist who planned the capsule went to great length to ensure that the capsule and everything included, also the astronauts, would be as free of bacteria as humanly possible. Even though these astronauts were healthy to begin with and lived healthy lives up to the present with all the quote-unquote normal bacteria around them, nevertheless, it was felt that since the conditions in space are different than those on Earth, including the conditions in which they find themselves during the flight, therefore there was a need for extra cautionary steps to an extreme level. And therefore extra precautions had to be taken that even the ordinary bacteria that under normal conditions presented no threat or danger, in these new circumstances they should be reduced to a minimum. The Rebbe derives from this a lesson for every Yid. So likewise, a Yid in his

02:38 day-to-day spiritual life must realize that each new day brings a new environment, new circumstances, and new opportunities that never existed before for that individual. As such, each Yid must not be content that he has reached a certain level of ridding himself of harmful bacteria. It may be he has been healthy up till now, and today he is in good spiritual conditions. However, tomorrow brings the unknown, and we must be prepared in every way possible. The way to ensure this is never to be satisfied with one's status quo, but one must improve himself every day and go from strength to strength until one has destroyed every trace of the spiritual bacteria that can be a source of a spiritual illness. Beshashem, in the next installment we will continue with an additional lesson.