yiraishamaim wrote:

There are many here who are a very long ways away from the so-called end of the rainbow you speak of, if it exists at all. I fear your insistence in this matter will discourage them, at best, and perhaps even depress them.


yiraishamaim wrote:

What you are describing here sounds very much to me like the grave. That is the only menucha (aside from shabbos) that I know of that we generally assoaciate with yahadus, and specifically regarding the battle with the yetzer hara.
The Gemara clearly says "Al taamin b'atzmecha ad yom mosecha."
If so, when does this "menucha" kick in?

End of the rainbow...pot of gold...what?? Someone's seen too many Lucky Charms cereal commercials...Last I checked, that stuff's treif.

Principle 14 "It's never all or nothing". No pot of gold.

Principle 13 "Every Little Bit Counts". Somewhere in the handbook there's a story of someone who didn't have bechira with regard to one thing they were doing, and the rav said to say tikkunim for a while and that that would help. Remember also "schar mitzva mitzva"...the goal is a relationship with the creator of everything. Pretty cool thing to have.

OH, which is what yiraishamayim said!



Cool beans. I don't really know what bracha is, but the first part about getting close to Hashem kinda makes sense.

Idunno, I've been lonely enough that being close to the feller (kevayachol) who's always there for us seems the better reward. :/ in principle...just gotta realize that in practice

long breaths long days wrote:

LBLD, you are a panic