When you are feeling far from Hashem during the three weeks remember, it is compared to the machol dance. Two lines of people get closer, than farther from each other again and again. While they are far apart, they do not turn their backs. Rather they are still looking towards their partners. The whole purpose of going far is obviously for the purpose of drawing close again. Even when far away you don't fret because, hey, its still a dance. -Mittler Rebbe (in the context of Teshuva)
Yakov said to Eisav כה אמר עבדך יעקב. - the word כ״ה hints to the acceptance of מלכות שמים in the 25 letters of the pasuk שמע ישראל, the concept of עבדך. We say "listen ישראל," like it says in this pasuk, "thus says Yakov.״ He then says עם לבן גרתי I lived with Lavan, גרתי גימט׳ תרי״ג, this refers to the second paragraph of Shma, והיה the acceptance of the מצוות. This is like our sages said about Shma, why do we preface the first paragraph of Shma to the second? To first accept upon yourself the rule of heaven and afterwards the rule of the מצוות. Ohr Hatorah Vayishlach, Mamer Im Lavan Garti
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