I would like to continue with the message that we discussed on Friday, from the holy Ramchal , based on the pasuk, כִּֽי־אֵשֵׁ֣ב בַּחֹ֔שֶׁךְ ה׳ א֥וֹר לִֽי When I sit in the darkness, God is light for me . He explains that when times are dark in a person ’s life, there is actually a light, but that light is being hidden , and will come back later. Imagine that every person is born with his God-given light for each day. For example , imagine that each person has a gallon of light per day. T hen , when dark times come in to your life, when things aren’t going the way you would like them to , those are dark days without light. But the Ramchal is telling us that the light really is there. It’s just being stored someplace else where you can’t see it. Imagine a “ light bank,“ where God is investing your light , storing it for the future. Right now, it looks like it’s dark and there is no light , but it’s not that there is no light . R ather , you just don’t see the light The light is being put someplace else, and saved for later. This is actually a pasuk, “ Or Zarua LSadik/ light is planted for the righteous .” Just like seeds are planted for a tree that will grow later, and th at tree will bear fruit, God plants light. He takes the light that you were supposed to have now in the darkest of times and plan ts that light for the future. That future might be in your lifetime , or it might be when M ashiach comes. But the light is never lost. The light is growing and developing. So never think that you don’t have the light. You have the light, you just don’t see it. It’s like you’re saving your l ight for the future. God knows how to force us, so to say, to save our money, or our light , for the future. This is similar to Y osef HaSadik, who saved up in the seven years of plenty, for the seven years of famine. So too, the light is rationed, and save d for when it will be necessary. And God is our financial planner, Who knows how to plan for the future. We see this concept when Miriam waited for her brother Moshe for about 15 minutes, when she was 6 years old. Then, 80 years later, the entire Jewish people waited a week for her. This was compounded interest for the 80 year investment. S he got it when she needed it. S ometimes we see it , like when a H olocaust survivor stand s up at age 80, at the Sheva Berachot of his last grandchild . In a room full of 200 descendants , he stands up and talks about how he was starving and didn’t think he would live another day, and yet here he is with his wife, successful, happy , and full of nachat . Yes , he had those hard, dark years . But now he sits back and smiles at the light that appreciated in value over those years. It’s important keep this principle constantly on our minds. God is our light. We mention this concept every Friday night, in Lecha Dodi, when we say “ L eave from under the rubble, you’re sitting so long in the depths ….. …W ake up, wake up, because your light has come. Get up, my light. “ This refers to the future, when the light will come out. Ra v Shlomo A lkabetz, the author of Lecha Dodi, like many others, based what he wrote on Pesukim, and this a pasuk in Yeshaya, perek ס ק֥וּמִי א֖וֹרִי כִּ֣י בָ֣א אוֹרֵ֑ךְ וּכְב֥וֹד ה עָלַ֥יִךְ זָרָֽח׃ Get up my light, your light has come, and the honor of God, is going to shine upon you. “ As we have mentioned previously, we are now in the seven weeks of Nechama. Nechama is literally translated as comfort , but Rashi tells us (in Bereshit) that it means that this is the time that we should have a new outlook . “ Get up because your light has come,” is the Haftara of Parashat Ki Tavo. We always read this two weeks before Rosh Hashanah, when we say, “ Let the year and the curses end.” Get up because your light has come, is the realization of what will happen in the time of the G eula . The Chida says on that pasuk, in his Sefer Chomat Anach, “ It is well known that the Geula will be on a good day, when the mercy will be revealed, and there will be great lights that come from above.“ That light has been hidden for all of the se years , and it will finally come out then. This isn’t j ust on the level of the Jewish people at large, but it’s actually for every individual who has their own personal Geula . As it says in Le cha Dodi , “ Come close to my soul and I will be redeemed.“ Every individual can have his personal redemption, and in his personal redemption, he will see those lights come out. This is also a pasuk in T ehilim ,69,19, where David Hamelech says, ק ׇרְבָ֣ה אֶל־נַפְשִׁ֣י גְאָלָ֑הּ לְמַ֖עַן אֹיְבַ֣י פְּדֵֽנִי׃ Come close to my soul , and will bring redemption. So every person can have their own personal redemption, and when that personal redemption comes, all those lights that have been invested will come out in their fullest.