Dear Friends,
With many thanks to Hashem I would like to inform you of my engagement to Chayele Liberow from Johannesburg South Africa!
Our L'chaim/Vort/engagement celebration, will IY"H take place tonight Tuesday March 31st at the hall of ULY at 570 Crown St. (entrance on Albany Ave.) We would love to see you there!
We'll keep you posted on all the exciting stuff to follow!
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It's been a while since we shared some thoughts and Divrei Torah, what better time to refresh and restart than the present Simcha, so here we go!
Where it really counts!
G-d knows us. He knows that once in a while we need a dose of excitement in our lives, something out of the ordinary, an unusual occurrence.
So He throws in a 'High Holidays'. Two months later we have Chanukah. Purim, and soon after we're scraping the walls for imaginary chometz in honor of Pesach, followed by Shavuot, and before we know it, we're already blowing Shofar in preparation for another year…
Great idea! But after a while we get 'immune' to the mystique and holiness of these days as well.
So G-d came up with another idea – to make some Mitzvas which are so rare that it is basically impossible to become immune to its excitement.
Birchas Hachama is one such example. With its once in 28 years occurrence spiced with a dose of astronomy, plus a touch of out of worldliness makes it a perfect excitement generator.
Just look at the overall excitement Birchas Hachama generated all over the world. I sat and typed into Google search the words 'blessing of sun', and here was the number of links - 6,920,000. - Over six million! (Ok, some of the links were about astronomy and magazines… but you get the picture…) Oh, and if you search for Shabbat, you get 2 and a half million… teffilin gets barely a one third of a million…
Wonderful! G-d got us excited.
At the end of the day however, we must always remember that the Jewish way of life is in the day to day living, in the consistency, in the regular work/school day. Yom Kippur is nice, Birchas Hachama is mysterious, but where our commitment to Hashem is truly evident and tested in the normal, the regular.
In this weeks Torah portion G-d tells Moshe to 'Command' Aaron to fulfill all of his obligations as a Kohen. Rashi questions the strong language, why did Aaron need to be commanded? Wouldn't he have gladly done his unique job satisfactory?
Says Rashi: "The expression tzav ("command") implies an urging for now and for future generations." When the excitement and thrill of the starting line has passed, and its now the day to day life, this is where we need a commandment to keep our commitments…
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Engaged for barely an hour, I can't exactly offer advice on marriage (or maybe this is when I can… like the joke of the woman who would lecture on the "Ten Commandments of child raring". When she had her first child she changed the speech to the "Ten tips on child raring, and when she had her second child she stopped lecturing all together…)
But it is obvious that all the above is applicable to marriage as well…
For now however, we are living the moment! And we are sure that you are sharing in our moment as well…
Moshiach Now!
Mazal Tov
Chayele and Levi
1 comment:
Mazel Tov! Mazel tov! May you both be makbel all of the Rebbe's brochos and have a binyan adei ad as he wishes! A lot of simcha always!
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