This week's Dvar Torah is a guest post by Batya Aliza Etzion. Batya is the CTO at a crypto media company. She’s been making software professionally since 2003, with a special love for security & privacy tech. Batya studied at several yeshivas for women in Jerusalem, including Neve Yerushalayim and Simchat Schlomo. If you have an idea for a tech-related Dvar Torah and would like to share it, please get in touch with Ben or Yechiel.
And yet, there's some benefit to it. The code is more solid, the second time around. There is something about doing something twice. The first time is the flash of inspiration but the second time it's really in your bones.
It can give us some chizuk to know that this process - of things breaking and being rebuilt - is baked into our reality. It's not just you! We see this clearly with the luchos, which were broken and then given to us again. (In Chassidis, the luchos are an iconic example of this concept.)
But the luchos are not the only thing in Tanach which was done twice. Just look at planet earth! Hashem built the whole world, with all of its people and animals, only to wipe it all out (except for Noach and everyone in the ark) and rebuild the earth anew. And we see Hashem suggest to Moshe that it might be a good idea to wipe out the Jewish people and start all over again.
It's frustrating when things don't work out the first time. But it's an incredibly universal experience. It's even something that we see on a cosmic / Biblical level. It's ok to have to redo our work and to start over! For myself, I'm working on accepting the messiness of the whole creative process. And for each of you, I wish you a beautiful Shabbos!
Shabbat Shalom,
Batya
