The Sky’s the Limit

It is not in heaven. Rather the matter is very near to to you in your mouth and heart to perform it( Devarim 12-14)
And what if the Torah was in heaven? The verse clearly infers we would have to climb up ladders to get it, because it is so essential to our existence. Why would the Torah demand the impossible? We’ve all come across a story where a man or woman have suddenly accessed incredible physical resources in an emergency situation. People have lifted cars in the air to release a trapped child. Others have jumped to tremendous heights they never dreamed they could muster.
A very early source brings the story of a fisherman who met Elijah the prophet. He claimed that he was unable to study Torah because G-d had not granted him the wisdom, intelligence and aptitude to do so. Elijah said to him “G-d granted you the intelligence to be able to cut flax, turn it into a cord andFashion it into nets and catch fish, but for Torah study which is near to you He didn’t grant you the intelligence?!”
Man is not born knowing how to ply a trade; he must learn it. The imperative of earning a living, forces him to find the ability to do so. If we were to see Torah as a life and death issue and feel that we need it as desperately as physical sustenance, we would learn how to succeed at it. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Mankind never stops looking upward. NASA are always searching for newer, quicker ways to visit distant planets. “the sky’s the limit” has long become an irrelevant cliché. By reaching beyond our limits for things truly important to our inner selves, we can achieve seemingly impossible changes.

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