Why Was the servant/Companion Hiding?-The lost princess shiur 22

A fast run through the whole tale — the king, the daughter, the viceroy who asks for three things and sets out. The path off to the side. The castle of lo tov, where the festivities are real and the place is not. The year of longing, and the apple on the last day. The lowered prescription, and the spring that looked red and smelled like wine. Seventy years. And then we stop where we have been holding, and read it from the inside, word by word. V'amdah sham etzlo. V'yardah. V'yashvah etzlo. V'hikirah oso. V'haysah mena'eres oso me'od — v'lo ni'ar. And the question of the night: why was the mesharet hiding? • Who the soldiers are — not only the guards of lo tov, but the ones waging its war. And the ones who got him into that place to begin with • What the slumber actually is: he is there, but he is off his mission. He forgot his mission entirely • Why the companion hides. Not by choice. He hides because the viceroy, the mashpia, the one who gives to him, has stopped giving — and so he waits. And sometimes you are fortunate enough that he waits with you for seventy years • Everybody has a companion. A spouse, a mother, a brother, a Rebbe, a chavrusa. A person cannot go through lif