I wish our klipot from our avonot would fly away as quickly as the petals of the dandelion.
Monday, January 03, 2011
Sunday, January 02, 2011
CLD #141
When we get the smallest cut on our fingertips, we immediately have different moods, feelings, and attitudes towards the day. Why is the human body so sensitive, so weak? Hashem wants us to learn something from our own bodies. We are not supernatural. We are not immortal. We are simply skin and bones. As we know throughout school and chinuch (parenting) from our parents, we need to learn that life does not revolve around us. Hashem created us with a force (human nature) pushing us to be selfish and another force (our soul) pushing us to care for others. With the body's sensitivity and weakness (even with the smallest scratch on our toe), we learn to be modest. It shows us that we are not "huge" and we are not at the center of the world. Hashem wants us to learn from everything. We have to use all our midot wisely. Take a little from everything. Just like in a salad you need a certain amount of every ingredient, so too the midot that Hashem blesses us with.
Look around at nature and with what we were created. How do you not (Chas VeChalilah) believe in G-d?
Judaism=Think. SHAVUA TOV!
Saturday, January 01, 2011
CLD #140
"We are in another country, do whatever you want, it is a free world." This is the attitude used around the world when someone leaves their home and travels to another location. This is not a Jew's attitude. A real Jew feels and does G-d's will in any place around the world. It is not where a Jew is placed, it is what a Jew does in his place of stay. When a Jew travels, he/she usually calculates their activities around a minyan, kosher food, ability to do what Hashem wants us to do. This is the 'nisayon' of our generation. We need to take our sense and logic and throw it to the side and just in mesiroot nefesh do what Hashem says IS RIGHT, and not what we think is right. These decisions make us different from the Goyim around the world.
B'H may we do all the mitzvot and limud torah "bekol levaveinu."
Smile, Cuz G-d loves all bnei yisrael, He loves you!
SHAVUA TOV!