בס׳ד

"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



25 Dec 2021

The Message

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- Message from mother of 10 year old boy Chaim Shaul Ben Pessel: - Many have asked us what more can they do to help our son? In consultation with a Rav, we would appreciate the following: As we are taught, it is so important to constantly see Hashem's goodness all the time and thank Him for all aspects of our life. Even for the most common and mundane matters. Such an outlook has the power to bring tremendous Yeshuos and Chasadim to us. We are asking you all to please be Mekabel to notice Hashem's Chesed and thank Him for it at least once a day. May this be a zechus that Chaim Shaul Ben Pessel should have a Refuah Shelaima B'karov! Please pass this on to whomever you can think of. We need all the zechusim we can get! Thank you

23 Dec 2021

Brachah

TORAH BRINGS BRACHAH

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11 Dec 2021

Happiness

The woman approached me in the synagogue this morning asking me, "Are you coming to the shiur today at my house?"

Uncomprehendingly, I responded, "what shiur?"

"You mean your husband didn't tell you? That's not nice."

She proceeded to tell me the details and I reassured her that I would be there.

After shul, I asked my husband why he hadn't relayed the message to me about the shiur and he responded that he hadn't know about it. The woman's husband had not mentioned it to himr and he muted the whatsap messages from the shul, after being bombarded with messages.

When I arrived at the woman's house, I was going to explain to her why my husband not said anything to me. But I stopped myself. Perhaps she had asked her husband to tell me about the lecture and he had forgotten to do so. I did not want to cause friction between husband and wife. To me, it was more important that she think highly of her husband rather than mine.

She had told me what my husband had done was not nice. Causing friction between a married couple is not nice, as well.

The Two Conditions To Unconditional Happiness

2 Dec 2021

The Desecration

Mashiach, Mashiach, Mashiach

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This morning, I came across an article describing the "desecration" of the Second Temple during the period of Chanukah. I also came across a somewhat different article describing another "desecration."

After years of shared civil existence among the citizens of Judea, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, proved to be less kind towards the Jews. He outlawed the Jewish religion, including any observance of the Sabbath, circumcision, kosher slaughter, and Jewish prayer in the Temple and ordered the Jews to worship Greek gods.

In 168 B.C., his soldiers attacked Jerusalem, killing thousands of people and desecrating the city’s holy Second Temple by erecting an altar to Zeus and sacrificing pigs within its sacred walls. Mothers who circumcised their sons were flung from Jerusalem’s walls to their deaths. A ninety year-old man named Eliezar was executed for his refusal to eat pork. Martyrdom became commonplace, though perhaps the most famous was that of Hannah and her seven sons, who were killed one by one before her eyes before she herself was killed. https://israelforever.org/history/chanukah/

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