have a wonderful Shabbos

I'll let zemmy comment on this one- just wanted to add one thing,
the brother of the maharal in sefer hachaim, sefer parnassa vechalkala, perek shishi writes, that we have a safek in all the mitzvos, but shabbos is an ois, that everything is true because:


[it's a very geshmak perek to learn, besides for this shtickel]

thank you TZ for the insight.may we all be zoiche to feel this

wow, yechida, that is so beautiful! i am firing up my printer..

and thank you TZ for that mareh makom
(another great mareh makom is Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's book called Sabbath: Day of Eternity)

and Purim is a day when we can ask Hashem to access all that is good within us.


The Melech  (Hashem) loved Esther (our generation of Haster Panim) more tha all the other women (all the previous generations)


its a paradox but its true


because we are so low and simple ,Hashem loves us the most.It's harder for us so our Emunah in our Melech is all the more precious

written by Emily Dickinson ( she must have had a special zchus somehow to have been given by God this poem to write )


Faith -- is the Pierless Bridge
Supporting what We see
Unto the Scene that We do not --
Too slender for the eye

It bears the Soul as bold
As it were rocked in Steel
With Arms of Steel at either side --
It joins -- behind the Veil

To what, could We presume
The Bridge would cease to be
To Our far, vacillating Feet
A first Necessity.

Internet
So much power
To heal/To devastate
Blinding light/Crushing darkness
Builder & Destroyer
Depending on how its utilized

God is more upset that we dont take advantage of the gift of teshuvah than He is with the sin itself

yechida wrote on 15 Mar 2012 16:35:

all the sefrei chasidus are full with this concept.But if you wish to go further back than that ,you see this clearly in the neviim.In which even when terrible sins were committed,Hashem keeps on saying again and again and again ,do teshuva and I will accept you back with open arms.also look at the hadamah of sefer chofetz chaim.and all spead out in his writings.in shimas haloshon as well.that it will take time to remove the sin of lashon horah.Its not easy to uproot.But as as long as you admit your flaw,ask for help , put in the effort,Hashem will forgive.You see it by Menashe as well.You see it by Yerovam as well.You see it as its brought in seforim even with a person like Acher who basically in Shomayim he was told to take a hike and get lost.But as the seforim say,if all of these people would have pushed themselves and humbled themselves,they would gave been forgiven despite the terrible sins that they committed.So yes,God is more upset that we dont take advantage of the gift of teshuvah more than He is with the sin itself.Though I have trouble comprehending it,the executioner of R Chanina Ben Teradyon,Nevuzardan, despite being mass murderers had thier teshuva accepted.The first a bas kol said he is going to Olam Habah,the second was accepted as a Ger.So go figure!!!

the key being that the voice that tell the addict that all is lost, and he will burn in hell no matter what, is a false voice meant to undermine him.If he does teshuvah,takes the steps towards recovery,he can truley become a great person no matter what he has done in the past.

and now,TZ,not in the context of my previously deleted post , I will reiterate the same thing I said before.The fire of machlokos burns higher and destroys more than the fire of arayos.I leave it to you to find the "citation needed" for this. One is simple the fact that the 3 real big NO NO's got us back the Bais Hamikdosh in 70 years while as the hakdamah of the sefer chofetz chaim writes clearly,its the sinas chinam that has all of us stuck in this galus for over 2000 years.

we all know that the Chazal say this.But Im sure when the Yidin first heard it from Chazal they must have been shocked.as they probably were when they heard that 24,000 talmidim of Rav Akiva died because of "lo nahagu Kavod Ze Bozeh".Its not the first thing that comes to peoples minds that they need to correct.There are much "worse" things than that.But chazal tell us that this sinas chinam is the worst of all 

yechida wrote on 16 Mar 2012 12:42:

If this was not in the context of the previous post, was it in the context of this post? I understand that to mean that you were insulted by my request for a citation, and saw it as a provocation on my behalf...
!חלילה לי מעשות זאת
Chas veshalom! I never meant to insult you, i greatly respect and love you ^{[i]citation not needed[/i]]} and was merely fooling around, if you percieved this as an insult, I hereby sincerely apologize.
TZ
P.S. That having been said, you still didn't produce a source for the aforementioned amazing concept.

TehillimZugger wrote on 18 Mar 2012 11:46:

I wrote that because I was genuinely interested in a source. My friend Zemmy [who is an Exemplary Scholar even according to my standards (this in addition to the PhD he holds in Laughticus Comedicus)], generously provided me with a source:

I thank you for the source.Ive seen the rabbenu yonah concept in many places and as Im learning I will bli neder quote it and expand on it

Klall Yisroel
Compared to sheep
Soft, gentle, docile
Voice arousing compassion
Relying completely on our Sheperd

When God took our nation
Out of Egypt
He redeemed us individually as well
Each one of us suffer
From our own private Egypt
Looking towards God
To redeem us
From that place