With a weak tired smile, he crawled in and pushed the golden button. The doors closed and he sped to the top of the building and the grand prize. Life is about getting to the top. Climbing the spiritual ladder, however, is not so easy. Sometimes it seems that it's just too much.
Life is like the down escalator.
Just to stay where you are, you have to keep walking. If you stand still, you'll go down. To rise, you have to do a lot more than walk - you have to run. In this week's Parsha, we read horrifying predictions of what will happen to the Jewish People if they fail to 4keep the Torah. But it's not enough just to keep the Torah.