CLD #330

For the Lyilui Nishmat of RAV ELAZAR AVUCHATZERA ZT’L, Shahin Shmuel ben Hadassa & the Refua Shlema of Mordechai Tzvi ben Sara.

Yesterday I saw a sign on the Subway. It said one who walks between the train cars runs a risk of being fined, injured or worse. This was a HUGE mussar lesson for me. Why? Because I just got back from Eretz haKodesh, which is all about Kdusha, Ruchaniyut, love for your neighbor, Tzniyut, Limud Torah, etc. Now I’m on the subway and I see a huge sign that tells me ALL about America.

The sign first warned about being fined, then being injured and then “worse.”

In America, from the sign alone (forget about what one sees on the street and the way people act), one sees that America KNOWS that its citizens care about whats in their wallets first, then their bodies, and then their souls (whoever believes they even have one).

The fine is mentioned first, because America believes in the NOW, the immediate cause and effect, the punishment, the next move. American society pushes one to be in a constant distraction! The Torah HaKdosha lehavdeel is the complete opposite.

Orchot Tzaddikim (a book called the ways of the Righteous) explains that the one who Mitbonen (looks into something) can reach the Love that one needs to have for Hashem. When someone thinks and views the world from a bird’s eye view, he/she sees a complex place full of intelligience, from the communication of dolphins to the plants ability to capture sunlight. This attitude towards the world increases love of Hashem.

B’H we should all realize what a zchut (privelage) it is to be alive, because as we all probably know from the recent Murder of Rav Elazar Avuchatzera ZT’L (Baba Sali’s grandson), life can be taken away from us Hashem Yerachem in a matter of minutes.

B’Sorot Tovot & Shabat Shalom!

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