The portion begins "See I have put before you the Blessing and the Curse"

 

What? Curses? Oiy Vey or Go Away?

 

R Sholom Brodt of Yeshiva Simchat Shlomo explained an idea of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

 

That Blessings are clear - they are the outside of the Almighty's gifts -

 

but when seeing curses - we need to see they are a Blessing that is Hidden deep inside - 

 

and we need to make sense of those!

 

The Real Power of the human is to Reveal the Concealed secrets of Life-

 

to discover (in the ATOM? in the MIND? in the Power of Photosynthesis?)

 

IN EVERYTHING the inner meaning and the inner power - the Gifts of G-d -

 

Of Life - and Your Purpose in Being ...

 

 

 

 

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach quotes Hassidic Insight -