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"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



17 May 2012

Bringing about the final Bais Hamikdash

This morning The Lakewood Scoop reported the tragic news about the levayah of a young boy.

The late night Levaya of the young Yosef Meir Z’L drew a crowd of close to 1,000 men and women. Yosef Meir’s father noted how Yosef Meir Z’L must have had a special Neshama for the mere fact that he was able to unite tens of thousands of Yidden around the world and bring them to be Mekabel on themselves various Tikunim.
http://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2012/05/nearly-1000-attend-levaya-of-yosef-meir-zl.html

Earlier the website reported about the "Petirah of Ha’Bachor Yosef Meir Berger Z’L, who was Niftar this evening. Yosef Meir, 13, son of Reb Ezra, was critically injured Erev Taanis Esther when he was struck by a bat, just days after his Bar Mitzvah. He was in a coma ever since."
http://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2012/05/baruch-dayan-haemes-habachur-chaim-yosef-meir-berger-zl.html

Someone named Goldy, who was instrumental in keeping the Tehillim going, posted the following:

We kept the tehillim going through 53 cycles and were in the middle of the 54th. The last chapter I assigned was chapter 24.

The introduction to this chapter in the ArtScroll edition says: Dovid composed this psalm on the day he purchased the land of the eventual Temple site. Land, brick and stone were not enough to build a Jewish Temple. Man himself must be worthy of ascending the mountain where
G-d’s presence rests. This psalm describes the personal qualities that qualify a Jew for such a lofty aspiration.”
May each of us find within ourselves the desire and strength to do whatever we can and should do to help bring about the buildiing of the third and final Bais Hamikdash.

Speaking of the Bais Hamikdash, for those of you who missed it, there was an interesting VIN article about the origins of the lyrics of a new song released by Avraham Fried "which state that the third Bais Hamikdash will be built by the tears of Klal Yisroel."
Click here, for those of you who missed it.
Finally, I received an interesting comment about a post from a couple of days back dealing with the word "yashchena."

Apropos to this verb you bring, note it also finds itself in the word "Moshiach" - as if to suggest the more we all talk about Moshiach the more certain is his speedy arrival - where Moshiach is pronounced "Mee-Siach" - from talk!


Thank you in the vanguard.

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