Sick Man Getting Well wrote on 19 Jan 2011 02:56:
MovingUp wrote on 19 Jan 2011 01:31:
I want the "off" switch to this...
How many times I said that to myself. How many times I still think it. Just keep standing up. Someone gave me the great analogy of a person shoveling snow, he goes down the steps, down the walk, and at his car he slips on his backside and falls down hard. When he stands up, is he back in his house with the snow back where it was? Absolutely not. Every day (or hour) we have of sobriety - is a gift and an investment for our soul. A fall is just that, a fall. When we stand up we keep moving (or trucking as Berdichev likes to say
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Right Back Atcha SMGW
A simple man once came to the Lechovitcher Zy"a.
Asked the Rebbe: How did you get here?
Simple Man: I rode here on my Chamor (donkey- but in Hebrew it is similar to "Chomer" which is the "Material" side of man- or any entity -and is what shleps one down, down, down to wordly desires -or even Shmutz! Tzaddikim say the Mishnah in Berachos "...היה רוכב על החמור" is an allusion to one has masterful control over his material drives -as a rider controls his mount).
Rebbe: And what do you do when the "chamor" gets wild and unseats you?
Simple Man: Well, I get right back on him and keep on riding!
Rebbe: And what do you do when he throws you again?
Simple Man: Well, I get up and brush myself off again, and keep riding!
Rebbe: And if he throws you again?
Simple Man: Well I pick myself off the floor, and get back on, and keep on riding!
And so on, and so forth -this exchange repeated itself a number of times.
Chassidim said that the Rebbe was trying to teach us, that even if the Chomer -the Guf with it's ta'avos -gets wild and knocks us down -the only eitzah is to get up and keep striving to go up and ride on in ruchniyus!
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Sefer Mizkenim Esbonan)