| “If you seek there for Adonai your God, you will find — if only you seek with all your heart and soul.” —Deuteronomy 4:29 On this verse, the Kotzker Rebbe teaches that the word umatzata, "you will find," is related to the meaning of "sufficient." He sites another verse in Torah (Numbers 11:22), in which the word is used to suggest the possibility of having enough — "Could enough flocks and herds be slaughtered to suffice (umatza) for them?" |  |
The Kotzker teaches that seeking God is the same thing as yearning for God. The very act of searching for God is enough—it is sufficient—to find God. The moment we recognize that finding God does not need to be a struggle—all that is needed is to open our hearts—God will enter us. The main thing that keeps us distant from God is the mistaken conviction that we have not yet done enough to merit God's nearness.
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