Teef, Schmeef!

dov wrote on 04 Jan 2010 21:01:


REBBE WAS I MASBIR IT KLORR??

bardichev wrote on 04 Jan 2010 21:15:
Excuse me R bArdy. YOu are the REbbe. Dov is the Rebbi!!! >

YUHH BIST GERECHT

IMT25

IT'S TOO BAD ON ME THAT I MAKE TOO MANY JOKES

SOME OF THE STUFF I POSTED IN THE PAST 24 HOURS ARE YESODOS IN YIDDISHKITE

IN ALL ANIVUS 

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bardichev wrote on 04 Jan 2010 21:51:
Trust me rebbe i know. im misabek b'afar raglechah!

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Answer in broken "Bardish":

It's clear like chicken soup w/o lokshen!

...that means "yes", I hope.

So...b says:
"As long as "I" fight the YH, "I" is in big trouble"

Yup. When we got all filled with charotoh we tell ourselves "I'll never do it again cuz now I have a plan!! I really mean it this time!"
...and we really do.

But it doesn't work.

By deciding to "fight it myself" I'm letting the fox guard the chicken koop. Is anything more silly?
Who got me into this mess in the first place?
The YH?
If we just keep blaming the YH for everything and deny that we ourselves are a bit "cracked", then we will keep putting this fox (=our very sincere but nutty brain) in charge of the chicken koop (=ourselves) over and over. And we all did that. And we go on scratching our heads..."I'm sincere, so why isn't it working? Ribono Shel Olam! Help me make this work! (...and Tatty, Who knows only emess, hears: "Join with me in this (stupid) fight to make me the winner, OK?").
I guess he just says, "Nope. Try again, tateleh."
Usually we come up with the hair-brained idea that if we only deeply understood why we do this crazy stuff, then we'd finally beat it!
More cheshboinos will only get us more in charge. Great.
That's when we need to really say keep On trucking.

Oy vei.
Stop thinking so much.
You are not that smart anyway.
(I'm talking to me - when I forget - which happens quite often.)

Now, I used to think that Reb b didn't know what he was talking about! It got me angry. 

Then one day my eyes were opened and I realized that he was actually smart enough to accept that we are not that smart.
And I know that this gift can only come from having a shtik'l  humility - I call that "surrender". (also a gift, perhaps)

People like me wonder (especially on Succos!): "Nu! Why can't I just be besimcha?!" 
The answer for me is simple: I need to get rid of some of my gayvoh. Sometimes, my gayvo is the only thing holding me back from simcha.
That kind of simcha is the third step. It's knowing in the heart that I'm not in charge, He is! And he knows exactly what He's doing! 
That simcha is much more powerful than lust.
But the price to pay to get it - and to keep it - is not by learning more, or fasting, or trying harder, or whatever.
It's by dropping our demands and accepting that He'll take care of us.
And the only way for folks like me to come to that is to first completely give up on ME taking care of everything.
That should be easy for addicts. We are losers, right? Losers at the game we could never win.

Does that answer you, Reb b?

Ah my Rebbi is quoting the Rebbe REb Shmuel!!

You bad boy it25!! > > Your Rebbi gives a whole shmooze and this is what you take out of it?!? >

Im sorry Rebbi, but im learning. SLOWLY!! :'( :'(

Like cold molasses with lokshen.

(just kidding!!)

:-*

dov wrote on 04 Jan 2010 23:12:
Thanks Rebbi i needed that!

Lchaim anyone!

Right now, I just want a hot cup of rich hot chocolate, mit a kleine shpritz of rum to give it some extra warmth, and a lil' ooomph...

Keep on Trukkin Bardi!

RUM uMISSNaSaei shochen shackakkim!!

bardichev wrote on 06 Jan 2010 06:26:
Rebbe, meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! i know im late , but better late than never!!!! And besides chassidim are never late :D

Haba - I hope you're making your hot chocolate with milk, not water!

Then add marshmallows (or marshmallow fluff).

I gotta say, though, that the word "marshmallow" is spelled really funny.