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Everything is from Hashem! This statement is nothing new to the readers who have been with the Daily Dose of Emuna for quite some time. Yet as many of you write to me on a regular basis it is a difficult challenge to push the emuna button when hardships arise. The question that is repeatedly asked, “How do I get the emuna in my mind to affect my heart and impact my feelings so I will pulsate with emuna vibes through and through?” I want to feel it, but I don’t!
It is the struggle of our current generation and a crucial necessary tool we need to learn every moment possible in order to lead happy, more fulfilling and emotionally balanced lives. Chazal teach us that just as a body needs food, the soul needs emuna. Without emuna the soul suffers and the result; negative emotions begin to flood our entire being.
Many think that I have reached my emuna pinnacle and don’t get frustrated with the curve balls thrown to me in life. I am on an emuna journey just like you traveling the path to see and feel Hashem’s existence in every aspect of my life. My emotions often ‘get in the way’ too and I must learn in my own way to ‘Cast my burden onto Hashem’ just like the rest.
I began writing the emuna articles in order to teach myself that Hashem loves me more than ever and is walking side by side with me everywhere I go. I never thought anyone else needed to learn the same message like I did. Two and a half years have passed since then and thousands of you have inspired me to keep writing and teaching the crucial message of why we need Hashem in our lives.
B’chasdei Shamayim, I know the impact is widespread and it has changed coutless lives. Rabbeim have written to me, though I prefer not to mention names, that they themselves have tremendously benefitted from the emuna lessons since they are real and practical and are taught with such passion. What a humbling experience.
This is why the forthcoming book “180 Degrees in 180 Days’ is so essential to the Klal. Everyone needs this and I need your help to make this book. This is going to cost me to produce, design and edit, so whatever you can contribute please do. As little as $5 – as much as a million dollars and you’ll get great rewards both material and spiritual because every dollar you give, it’s a mitzvah going toward Torah learning.
In fact in order to make this book a reality it only takes 120 people to contribute $102 (the gematria of the word EMUNA). It can be spread out over 6 months; just under $18 a month. I know Hashem will see this project through, but I also know that He wants me to spread the wealth and reward with the people who benefit from the emuna lessons and know how it has affected their lives first hand.
Please take the time to contribute. Every dollar is a note of appreciation that you are sending The Daily Dose of Emuna that you care and want it to continue. I can’t do this alone. Please join me.
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Today’s daily dose is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Raphael Elisha Meir ben Devorah a six year old who is tremendously suffering from brain cancer. May Hashem shower him and his family with all of the yeshuot in the zechut of the miracle of Chanukah and may he be completed healing amongst all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen!
Last night R’Aryeh Wolbe in Houston responded to the critical medical situation of Rafael Elisha Meir ben Devorah (Cohen), who is suffering with aggressive brain cancer. The doctors gave the parents the devastating news that “there is nothing more we can do for him.”
R’ Wolbe said right now Rafael Elisha’s fate is in Hashem’s hands and he needs our tefillos. Please daven for a speedy recovery for Rafael Elisha Meir ben Devorah. He may have days to live, the doctors don’t know.
An update on the earlier message.
The parents were going to try Antineoplaston Therapy at the Burzyinski clinic, which I said in a previous email. A number of you sent a note saying that that clinic has issues, which is also why the FDA withheld approval. Nonetheless, the parents have comfort knowing that 30,000 people signed the White House petition for FDA approval for compassionate use of an experimental medication that may have the potential to save his life (sign the petition) and that they are receiving support worldwide from the Jewish nation. Mrs. Cohen was in tears when she spoke with R’Wolbe.
In addition the family does have to pay medical bills to keep him alive. You can donate here:
The goal is $100,000 and when I just donated the total was $75,147.
