Our First Spiritual Task Is to Attach Like a Newborn

We talk a lot about doing: mitzvot, chessed, prayer, fixing the world. But Torah starts with something far more primal: attachment.

Just like a newborn’s first need is to bond with its mother, our first spiritual task is to bond with the Divine. Not to understand, not to explain, not to fix — but to attach.

This is the first level of emunah (faith): not belief in an idea, but the trust that comes from felt connection. A baby doesn’t believe in its mother. It just knows her scent, her voice, her warmth. The baby clings because that’s what it was created to do.

We, too, were created to cling.

“You who cleave to the LORD your........

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