inastruggle wrote:

Everything you want!?

Hi folks,

I had the day off for Labor Day, so that's why I haven't posted at all since Friday. (I only go on GYE from work. In fact, since I started working, my overall computer usage at home has gone down drastically.)

One of the most useful suggestions that my therapist gave me was to schedule regular dates with my wife. He said to look at it as an investment. He said he has seen many people who never spend quality time with each other, they are always too busy with work, school, kids, chores, whatever, and the resentment just builds up. But if you go out with each other every so often, it saves a lot of future heartache.

So lately, we have been trying to make a point of scheduling dates. We don't have an official schedule at this point, but we have gone out when we have a day off from work, or if our parents are around and we get free babysitting, or once in a while we will just hire a babysitter at night and go out. Yesterday we sent the kids to their respective places and we went out for lunch, and then coffee, and then bowling (I'm a lousy bowler). My wife thinks it was worth the money we spent on therapy just for this development .

In other news, today is כ"ח אלול, ה'תשע"ג, September 3, 2013. (We should all have a lot of כח today.) Today I am clean.

my wife's therapist said that even if you cant go out, make sure you spend ten minutes talking...just the two of you (just the two of us..na na).
I was thinkin': Can the ten minutes be accumulative throughout the day? joke.

thanks for sharing the good stuff Rabbi TTS
what you write brings to mind what they used to say on the Breslover High football team (or was it the bowling team?):
the best defense is a good offense
shalom bayis rocks!

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tryingtoshteig wrote:



ummm....yes?

inastruggle wrote:

Ok, sure, no problem


It's not Pas Yisroel, so hurry up and eat it before the Aseres Yemai Teshuva start!

EDIT: But it might be fleishigs, not sure...

Hi everyone. Just here to update...

Today is ה' תשרי, ה'תשע"ד, September 9, 2013. Today I am clean. Baruch Hashem Yom Yom.

Hope you all had a nice Yom Tov. I know I did. I had a few thoughts about Rosh Hashana, Malchus, the role of davening in Yom Hadin, etc. I hope they were somewhat correct. I am still trying to digest it all, (the thoughts, not the food). Maybe over time I will try to share some of these thoughts with the oilam.

For starters, here's a nice vort that my Rov said the first night of Yom Tov. We eat apples in honey, and daven that Hashem should give us a שנה טובה ומתוקה. I can understand what a Shana Tova, a good year is. Everything Hashem does is good, כל דעביד רחמנא לטב עביד. But what is a Shana Mesukah, a sweet year? What does that description add to a year that is good already?

He said (sorry, I don't remember who he quoted, I wasn't taking notes!) that even though everything Hashem does is for the best, we don't always see the good in it. So we ask that our year should be sweet, in other words, that besides for Hashem granting us a good year, we should be Zocheh to see the good and the brachah in the year Hashem gives us.

כן יהי רצון





Oy vey, I had better be careful not to quote what my Rov said on Rosh Hashanah, or somebody is gonna figure out who I am!

for all you know, i am your rov. and please stop wearing the bear costume to mincha. thanks

ZemirosShabbos wrote:

1. My rov is not a giraffe. In fact, he is not nearly as tall as a giraffe.

2. My rov is not a Belzer.

3. If you are my rov, I'd like to see the sense of humor that you the Rov uses on the forum in your the Rov's drashos.

4. You have shared your Torah with me (and others) so I can call you Rebbi.

5. Hey, look at the bright side. At least I didn't wear the bear costume to Mincha on Rosh Hashana. We can discuss the shul's gedarim for kavod hatefilla on Purim at a later date.

and finally,

just ask your rov if he likes compote

I'm not as tall as a giraffe.
I'm not a belzer.
I don't make jokes in my shabbos shuva drasha.



Maybe I'm your Rov ?!?!

Are you the guy who kept talking about more woodford on purim?

My Rov is married, sorry Rabbi Inna.

But if you want to sponsor Woodford in my shul on Purim, go right ahead!

I'm a bachur, I can't afford it....


:p

tryingtoshteig wrote:

My-shul?
That's where Zemmy davens!
Ask him.