true

you can think of this two ways:

its terrible that the truck almost fell out of the building

or

look how strong the truck is, it can go through walls

I think he just wanted to keep on trucking...

He wanted to back up, but he didn't have reverse.....

I thinl he thought he was in the Monstuh Truch pit.

Identity


This afternoon, an African American woman on the subway asked me if I was a Chassidic Jew. I hestitated for a moment and replied that I was just an Orthodox Jew.

How could I quickly explain to her that although I am not a chassid, I aspire to be one; that I learn Chassidus everyday, am connected to a Chassidic Rebbe, and adhere to a number of Chassidic practices and yet I am still not a Chassidic Jew?

This leads to a deeper question: At what point can I call myself a chassid? It is a both a level and also identity. It is something that can be defined, and yet no amount of words can properly define it.

from: asimplejew.blogspot.com/2011/01/identity.html

Tzedakah Tatzil Me'Maves

(Picture courtesy of Moriah Galleries) www.moriahgalleries.com/charity06.html

Hand wrought silver " bowl" depicting skeleton head and Hebrew inscription: "Charity Shall Avert Death". A very rare and unusual item from Ukraine, 18-19th century.

from: asimplejew.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

_____
seems like they knew about a picture being worth a thousand words back then too

a tzaddik with no kipa

I fell a little behind in my reading this past week, so I just read this inspiring story in the Hebrew Mishpacha magazine of last weeks edition:

The story is about a secular man, who had become frum, but refused to wear a yarmulke.

    This fellow became exposed to the work of the Lev L'Achim organization. An avreich knocked on his door and suggested they learn a bit of Torah together. At first he wanted to toss this avreich down the stairwell. But he agreed to the suggestion and experienced a shiur like he had never before experienced.

    They continued learning together and over time he became closer to religion, taking upon himself more and more mitzvos; Shabbos, family purity, tefillin, etc. But through all this he refused to wear a kipa.

    One of the Rabbonim of Lev L'Achim asked this fellow why he refused, despite his process of becoming frum, to wear a kipa.

    His response was "The avreich learning with me is waiting for me to have done a complete teshuva, so that he can move on to his next "project" - to another Jew to suggest a shiur to. I do not want him to move on. I want him to continue learning with me. As long as I do not wear a kipa, as far as he is concerned I have not yet done teshuva, and he therefore continues learning with me.

from: lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2008/07/tzaddik-with-no-kipa.html

Zem- So should we hold on to this addiction a little so we dont move on from gye? is that the moral..?

when are we considered "wearing a kupa"? is it after 15 days clean? when do we stop getting moral support?

twersky claims, that an addict as much as he cleans & gets rid of the addictions there is allways a tendency to fall back, he says its like a cardboard, if it gets a crease, on that spot of the bend it will allways be weak

so we never put on a real kupa & say "forget about the past, i am like everyone else"
unless we fortify that loose bend with metal posts or concreate beams so it will NEVER EVER bend back again.
just my thought
what do you think?

no hidden messages were intended, just to get you thinking.

but now that you point it out, that's a great example!
we should never be overconfident

two beautiful stories from Rebbe Nachman

asimplejew.blogspot.com/2009/05/guest-posting-from-yoni-lipshutz-of.html

ZemirosShabbos wrote on 23 Aug 2011 17:51:

i was in boro park when this obviously "villahmzburger" guy comes over and asks me "vee chapt men di boroparker bus?" which made me realize that what boro parkers call "the williamsburg bus", the williamsburgers call "der boroparker bus". why? cuz you're named after where you're headed.

(this idea is brought from several tzadikim)

beautiful!

in yeshiva my rosh yeshiva used to say that every bocher has a din talmid chuchem because he is working & striving to be one