Just like a police officer needs protection from things that might harm him physically, we need protection from the things that might harm us spiritually! We need the armor of G-d!
Everyone has a natural desire to protect themselves, but our bodies don’t always know what is best for us. For example, we might lie to protect ourselves from being punished, but all we did was make the punishment worse later on and we distanced ourselves from G-d. We might not know what is best, but G-d does and he gave us His armor to protect us! His armor is also known as the Torah.
The Torah is the way to love G-d and love our neighbor. So when we love G-d and love our neighbor by following G-d's Torah, we are like a walking Torah. What we do, say, and think are how we interact with the world, and if we do, say, and think exactly as the Torah tells us to, then we become a living Torah wearing it internally on our thoughts, and externally in what we say and do.
When we wear the Torah we are spiritually protected against things that distance us from G-d. We draw closer to Him, and we are also training our bodies to protect themselves the right way!
What are some ways you can wear the Torah in what you “think, say, and do”?
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