Hi everyone, I'm new here, I just thought I'd share with you something i thought of the other day. I have just moved houses, and i'm now closer to my Shul. I was walking there the other morning and I thought, yeh I'm closer but it's still a five minute walk and up a couple of flights of stairs, and then it hit me, I won't be happy unless if my Shul is in my house and even then I'd still grumble about having to get out of bed so I realized I have to get real and accept that Odom Le'omol Yulad a man is born for toil, it might be hard, but it's worth it and this of course applies to anything which is a struggle.

Welcome!!
Hope you have much Hatzlacha!!
Maybe tell us more about yourself (anonymously of course).

hi there and welcome!
i like your insight. so true. i often think if i only had the latest CD/car/filet minion/yacht i would REALLY be happy. not so
thank you

Hi !

Welcome to the greatest place in the land of Mordor!

May Hashem help you and us and all Jews acheive our tachlis...

BTW about yiddishket being shver, try to imagine that you are a crazy mountain climber, and no hill is enough, you relish the chance to climb higher - and we all know that the higher you go the colder and windier it gets

it starts to feel very lonely as you get higher...

the air is purer, but the danger is greater, and the views are thrilling...

but it's never enough, you want more challenge, if youre done with the

catskills, then you head over to New Hampshire, and from there to the rockies,

relishing the hardships and challenges, when your done with that you save up

until you get to the alps * ah* Nirvana! but the PAIN the DIFFICULTY the DANGER

the RISK, every step is fraught with mortal peril, but youre a man and you over

come, then on to the Himmel Leah's for K2, and FINALY you do everest!, then what?

you do everest again, this time without an oxyegyn mask...

That is our life as yidden,

climbing higher and higher

looking for new ways to grow.

(I heard a story of The Sanzer rebbe that he was once strolling with one of his

young einaklach, and they encounterd a gentile peasant woman, the young einakil

piously turned aside his head with great earnestness to not be nichshal in

histaklus asura, and machshovos zoros, and his Grand father the rebbe Z"L said

"AH, I am jealos of you my dear einikle that you still have the beautiful and

teira avodah of fighting with this Yetser hara!"

we see that we are climbing the mountain , and it's tough but we love the thrill

of the climb and are undaunted by all the cold ston peaks with their jagged sides,

rather we revel in the opportunity that the lord hath given us).

(sorry for the arichut, i got a bit carried away)

Welcome helpmeplease! How can we help? Please tell us about yourself, (besides how far your walk is to shul ).

as JFK once famously said;

"ask not how far the shul is away from you, rather how far are you away your shul"

mr. emunah wrote:


Wow! Thats a great ParaQuote

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