my question was based on your previous post where you wrote to avoid inevitable situations of fallin'....well, as of now, "life" is an inevitable situation of fallin'.

You're right that I misunderstood you intention but yet my responses challenge you're premise. Yes, a life in which you are compelled to do all of the things that folks out there are doing, and don't have the freedom to live in a way that's safer, then you're right. But I challenged that.

what a "coincidence." I went to the bank today and did a lot better. perfect no- but a lot better.

cordnoy wrote:


Yeah our personal nisyonos are hand picked by the Almighty. And I didn't exactly pass that one with flying colors.

cordnoy if I'm correct you have some a significant streak of sobriety - that definitely had to come along with a number of nisyonos, so maybe you "could handle it".(not that we want to be tested)

yiraishamaim wrote:


"Had," not "have."

An ordinary work place setting would be a direct path to failure. ....certainly a type of situation spoken about above.

K - Hatzlocho - miracles have happened/keep happening to our chevra here.

I pray that Hashem sends you one soon- tailored made for your personal challenges.

In the newest edition of Jewish Action magazine Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz writes a truly brilliant and informative article titled "When Leaders Fail"

One paragraph particularly caught my attention and thought you guys may also appreciate it.

In fact, I'd go as far to say this was tailor made for us in the forum.

He writes:" ...the malchut of the Jewish nation was assigned to the Tribe of Yehuda rather than the Tribe of Yosef. One thought that appears with some frequency in sifei chassidut and kabbalah focuses on the different ways these two personalities respond to temptation. Yosef successfully rises above sin, simply defeats it;"just says no." We stand in awe of his moral perfection and spiritual strength.
Yehuda,on the other hand, succumbs to temptation in a moment of weakness as his descendant Dovid HaMelech does later. He fails, but through sincere and honest teshuvahand by taking responsibility for his misdeeds, he is forgiven.
G-D wanted us to fully appreciate the awesome power of teshuvah to elevate and purify and thus chose the ba'al teshuvah over the tzaddik gamur.

G-D's message is one of hope, recovery and resilience."

Thanks for posting that. Brilliant stuff, as usual, from Rabbi Berkowitz.

Thanks, note: Rabbi Breitowitz

Woops. That's what I get for reading this on my iPad. I should look into his stuff.

Yeah - he is a rare combination of true goodness and brilliance.

He's now at Or Sameach in Israel

I guess we can never be Yosef again but at least I know that Yehuda is also a great path to kedusha.
Yehuda's path requires a level of humility and honesty that is a leadership quality.
In Yishtabach we say about HKBH, Kedusha UMalchus. I wonder if those refer to the set of maalos of Kedusha of Yosef and the humility and honesty of Yehuda.
May we be zoicheh!

you know the whole concept of Yehuda and malchus is interesting and not alien to sinning/humility/admission of guilt and efforts to improve.
Remember Yehuda and Tamar and how Yehuda admitted what had happened. David Hamelech and bat sheva - as Rabbi Breitowitz said.

Yoseph's malchus does not have the kiyum of malchus beis Dovid. the same with mashiach ben yoseph as oppossed to Mashiach ben Dovid - while these concepts may be a tad above us it does show that our way of doing Teshuva and then reaching for great heights can truly bring to great accomplishment.

That's a motivation based on Toras Emes!

I really appreciated this. Thank you.