Takum
תקום
We are well aware that the Torah’s general viewpoint is that struggles are part of life, and failing at times is part of struggling. We are taught that Sheva Yipol Tzadik V’kam: the righteous fall many times but the ultimate goal is to get up after each fall, dust ourselves off, and continue our growth.
In a profoundly deep teaching, Rav Yitzchak Meir Morganstern connects a verse from Tehillim to this idea. The passuk says “Rabos Machashavos B’lev Ish, Viatzas Hashem He Takum.” Read literally, the passuk means “There are many thoughts in man’s heart, but the everlasting ideas are those that belong to Hashem.”
Rav Morganstern sees another hidden message in the verse. While struggling, failing and inevitably falling down, man thinks many different things—including discouraging thoughts of despair and giving up—but an everlasting, enduring, and most powerful voice from Hashem is always calling out to us “Get UP and return to Me, My beloved children!”
