The King Never Asked Him to Go-the lost princess sephardic center shiur 5

Go back to the beginning of the tale and notice something easy to miss. There is never a dialogue between the king and the viceroy. The king never asks him to search. He never sends him. Machmas shera'ah shehamelech mitztaer me'od — because he saw that the king was in tremendous pain, the viceroy got up on his own. That is where the whole journey starts. Not with a command. With compassion. And then he asks for three things — a horse, a servant, and money for his expenses. • The horse is the body. The servant is a companion — because you cannot cross this world alone • And the diyuk: he did not say a servant to serve me or a horse to ride on. But money — money for expenses. Why those two words? • Where is he going? Through olam hazeh, the place of lo tov. Not ra. Lo tov Then we go back further than the beginning: • The malach in Gemara Niddah who takes the tipah and asks tipah zu mah tehei aleha — strong or weak, wise or foolish, rich or poor. And the one thing he does not ask: tzaddik or rasha • The neshama does not want to come down — and comes anyway, because from here it can rise higher than where it started • And a thought of my own: perhaps that was Adam and Chava's logi