The Ben Ish Chai offers an unbelievable parable of a young man who, on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, began to contemplate the shortcoming of this world which is filled with flattery and deceit. His imagination began to conjure up an ideal world where sheker was completely uprooted. As he became lost in his thought, he drifted off to sleep.
He dreamed of a little creature who appeared before him and presented as Sheker. The young man wrestled with Sheker, however he was finding it very difficult to knock him down. “I am not easily defeated,” he called out. “Don’t you realize how much I good I do for the briyos each day?” It was difficult to maintain an ongoing discussion with Sheker as his appearance kept changing, from somebody young to somebody old, from a nice-looking individual to a disgusting being, and from green to red.
They finally reached an agreement whereby the being named Sheker would not reappear for one entire day. He would allow the young man twenty-four hours of respite, free of any involvement with Sheker, or deceit.
The young man was absolutely delighted with this plan and woke up. When he opened his eyes, his faithful maidservant was standing near his bed and offered him a bottle of water. She said to him, “May you have a good new year with all of its blessings.”
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R’ Pinchas of Koretz once said, “a true Tzadik can see without his eyes and hear without his ears.”
R’ Noach of Lechovitch once said, “worrying is a sin.”
R’ Nachman of Breslov once said, “whoever speaks malicious words will fall into poverty.”
R’ Nachman of Breslov once said. “talking is the vessel through which Hash-m’s abundance is received.
A Tikun for Lashon Hara is studying Torah enthusiastically, serving Hash-m from the heart and speaking the truth.”- R’ Nachman
R’ Pinchas said, “don’t be satisfied with just appealing to a person to repent. HELP him!”
R’ Rafael of Bershid said, “Don’t see the evil in everyone else and the good in yourself; see the good in everyone else and the evil in yourself.”
The Trisker Rav once said, “Hash-m’s seal is true. If you tell a lie, you are guilty of forging His seal.
It's easy to become uprooted, today. All over you chalenges and calls of different stuff.
If there is no strong family, you can easelly be lost
Uf, not easy but optimistic. There is a hope for me as well
Thanks for the nice story where I can learn much from
Klal Yisroel is happy to have people like You
with chosen words message has been send deep in our neshamot
warmth of exposing the matter makes me looking for your books, articals and shiurim
it's amazing how your words can influance all of us
the truth and only the truth, how many people are ready to be honest ?
I can't quote Cadikim, I am not enough educated in Judaisam, in place where I live there is no Jewish schools, no eminent Rabbis, not Rabbis at all, but I am Jewish, and only I can say is that the word true is to often missused. We can't close the eys and the ears and say we all respect and keep our values, which are so often on our mouth but not in use in the life.
I like Your blogs becouse I feel that You are serious person, not only as a Rabbi but as well as a Mensh !
what to say ?
Should we put pragmatic before the truth ?
There are times to be pragmatic but not at any price
we can't live without worring, this is human
sometimes we don't see even if we don't wore a glasses
I like the way of posting comments
I am sure I know a little, but I am raedy to learn. Just for one begginer do you have any book to recomand ( I don't read Hebrew)
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