Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Baruch Hashem everyone I know woke up like any other day. They woke up, got dressed, and got on with normal daily life. Some with worries they’ve gone to sleep with Monday night, and some with excitement they ended Monday with as well.
Suddenly, the news got out about the horrible animalistic acts that unfolded during Shachris in Har Nof. Everyone’s mood changed.
We tried to continue our day doing the things a normal Tuesday would require, but there was just no way. It was too much. Too hurtful. Too much pain. Too many questions.
Davening Shachris all across the world was a different davening.
Four men who at seven o’clock in the morning went to shul to gather as a minyan to say praises and thanks to their creator were suddenly faced with the angel of terror, butchered like sheep, and returned their souls to their creator.
We were all left scarred. But the real question, is how long will this pain last? How many more of these horrific stories will it take for us to actually make a small change in our lives?
When such a tragedy hits us, we cry – maybe for an hour or two, and some of us will even cry themselves to sleep or have nightmares. But how long is it until we quickly forget and move on.
Let’s change ourselves together as a klal, the same klal that was gathered on Tuesday at 7AM and slaughtered while davening.
In memory of the Kedoshim, let’s all be Mekabel one small thing on ourselves that we will try to keep to. Something small. Something doable.
With this z’chus of taking upon ourselves to change little by little, we should be zoche to hear the great news – the announcing of the end of this Golus.
Z.S.
Lakewood, NJ.
You couldn’t have written better. Chazal teach us hashem punishes us midah kineged midah meaning when the government takes away shcetiah in a town it means there not makpid on kashrus so in our case hashem took away not one but four kedoshim!! When? In middle of davening wrapped in tallis and teffilin!!! So its possible to say we need to fix up on our davening ie.coming on time..sno talking …stay till the end…with thus change in our live we should be zocheh to see the geula very soon I”mh
i’m surely not fit to give musar, maybe we have to think about our respect for Shuls, less talking during Davening, ,maybe to shut our cell phone for Davening. May Hashem protect all of us here in the USA and Erez Yisroel
1)The situation in Eretz Yisroel & in the Diaspora is very bad from Terrorists to the entire Economy going down etc… If anyone should ask why all these Tzaros are Happening to Klal Yisroel he only needs to look at what the Rambam says. Saying that as long as we remain ignorant of the present troubles that we have & what the reasons are that they are happening. The situation can only get worse until Mashiach comes. With the society we are living in today we (sadly) CONSTANTLY need reminders (wake-up calls) from HASHEM for us to do T’shuva & return to HASHEM so all this Tzaros can end & Mashiach comes.
2)in yiddishkeit, if a person wants something (be it a livlihood, shidduch or child etc…) a person needs to do more then just daven & say tehillim, the person needs to also YEARN for it.-sadly- in today’s society we are living in, we are not YEARNING for the Bais Hamikdosh, we have everything from planes to cars & computers etc… even the gift of Shabbos for Gashmius to sleep & relax etc… HASHEM SAYS to klal yisroel, come back to me when your ready & ask me for something from your HEART & i will give you whatever you want (i’m sure if your child came to you for something you would get it, why wouldn’t you? the love between a parent & child is unlimited…. & that’s the way Hashem loves EACH & EVERY ONE OF US)
3)All of us have heard, read & seen tons of true stories of people who had their first child at 42 or had a sick child in critical condition, & then the doctor says i’m very sorry but your daughter has only 3 hours to live & then he comes back 2 hours later & says its really a miracle but your child is beginning to recover etc…. Why is it that they finally had a child or the child recovered? There could be tons of answers, but the most common answer Is a Pasuk we say 3 times a day in Davening. Hashem is close to all who call to him, to all who call out truthfully. (Tehillim 145)Because they cried out from their heart, they really meant what they were saying when they davened to H-shem to have a baby or for his daughter to recover etc…. there’s a reason we call Hashem, Avinu She’bashamayim (our father in heaven) Hashem loves us from a father to a son & is waiting to put his Shchina (presence) & his bais hamikdosh back in this world. If we really cried out for the Bais Hamikdosh from our heart with truth & show that we are missing it, then we wouldn’t still be in Golus today.
may we all do teshuva very soon so mashiach can come
I am sure everyone means well with their suggestions of exactly where we are lacking & why Hashem allowed this to occur. However, I refer you to the words of chizuk written up by HaRav Shteinman: “Ein anu yodim cheshbonos Shamayim”.
If you think something needs to be improved, perhaps try improving yourself in that area. Rav Shteinman lays out what we should work on in his michtav chizuk.
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http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/272260/words-of-chizuk-from-maran-maran-harav-shteinman.html