Thank you Rage. Another thing for me to look foward to daily, atleast till Pesach time. Chazak and yasher koacha.

Beautifully said!!

If GYE ever arranges Shiurim on the handbooks, Rage will be giving the main Chaburah!

guardureyes wrote on 03 Mar 2010 13:36:


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Beautiful.

Keep on posting (in small chunks please).

Sorry I keep missing your chats.

Keep on trucking, dude.

HAVE A PEACEFUL SHABBOS RAGE!

Thinking of you Rage.
Hope you're doing well.

bardichev wrote on 05 Mar 2010 18:17:


Well RAGE? Was your Shabbos peaceful?

The question you need to ask yourself is:

Would I be happier just growing another mouth (for that someone else), or just end up even angrier about having another mouth to feed?


;D

Rage ATM wrote on 11 Mar 2010 03:08:


One day they won't ask you why you weren't Moshe Rabbeinu, they'll ask why you weren't Rage Rabbeinu... (and you ARE!)  ;D

Hey Rage,

Haven't posted here in a while,
so, just stopping by to say hey.
Shavua tov!

Hey Rage, how you doing?
Thinking of you (and worried about you too).  :-\
MOMO

Rage ATM wrote on 04 Mar 2010 23:41:


Dearest Rage: I realize that my imagined goal is in H's hands and not mine in the first place, but the further away the imagined goal seems from current reality, the more likely it sometimes seems that "they" might have it right and "we" might be reaching for a brass ring beyond our reach.

Sometimes we can just reach for that brass ring and HKB'H turns our arms into Basya's long reach or even His own yad chazaka. But sometimes the Yetzer is setting a brass ring just to get us down and keep us there once we fall out of the merry-go-round's saddle.  (Too obscure? Sorry! Really!) My frum yetzer hara can fool me often.

Right now, I'm having one of "those days." Don't even know why I'm bothering with all this "stay clean" [er, junk]. How do YOU dust yourself off so quickly? Usually I'm pretty good at getting back onto Derech Hashem (the road, not the sefer) but today's just feeling rainy and windy and cold.  What secrets are working for you?

Thanks for that, Rage, and a nice and useful rest of Nissan to U, too!

Rage ATM wrote on 04 Mar 2010 23:41:


I've gone back and looked over your words AGAIN, Rage, and they're still hitting me very very deeply. Namely---
What if my own special flavors of acting out are indeed no different than anyone else's flavor: what if it's all simply acting out and nothing more?
What if it's not just like my eye color? What if I'm not decreed forever to live a life of misery, if there IS a way out of this dark.

Sometimes I plant little seeds of things around my life, so that if I find myself in a dark or hungry place I'll ALWAYS have a safe place to go with a little burried treasure and a siman that the world is still here to take care of me. I think I want to plant these words so that next time the Y'H tries to have a little "fun" at my expense, I'll know just where to go for reinforcement.

Thanks, Rage. I think you gave me some words I might be needing very much, very soon. (Day 64-ish, right now; the Y'H has pulled out the ultimate weapons of depression and despair; I'm hanging on but I'm starting to forget WHY.)

Thanks.

Rage,
What I think I'm hearing from you, and it sounds beautiful, is...

It's sorta like the story ending in "lo ba'shamayim hee" - there are certain powers that rest in our 'control' and not in Heaven. Still, that doesn't mean that it's OUR power or even OUR control. The walls don't cave halfway in unless Hashem makes/allows it.

So, somehow, that says something about man's role in the world -- on Rosh Chodesh as well as in cleaning up our own acts.

Am I in the neighborhood you intended?