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Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated l’iluy nishmat my Safta Nelly bat Aaron z’l. May her neshama bask in the Divine radiance of the Shechina together with all of the tzaddikim who have departed from this world, Amen. (To read more about how special my grandmother was, read the Mishpacha Magazine article posted on our website: CLICK HERE)
A person has to struggle in this world so that he recognize that it is Hashem Who is at the center of his universe. It is Hashem who intimately supervises everything and every part of this creation. We are completely dependent upon Him.
However, it isn’t enough for us to merely know this intellectually; it needs to be weaved into our inherent existence and dictate our thoughts, speech and actions. In order to attain this level of knowing and more importantly to reach this feeling – requires a change of perspective.
When is it easiest to ingrain this realization? When we are forced to cry out to Hashem for help, then it moves from theory in the mind to hard core emotion. That is when we ‘get it’! When we don’t know how we are going to get through the next pile of bills and are feeling helpless and hopeless, then we ‘scream out’ to Hashem and somehow, someway, it works out. Consequently, our emuna has been ‘upped’ a couple of notches and we are enveloped in Hashem’s warm embrace.
Surely, the solution will make its way somehow or another into our lives with or without us connecting to Hashem. However, then we will have lost an opportunity to strengthen our emuna and acquire ‘G-dly’ strength to make it through the next c’v hardship.
Our ‘difficulties’ aren’t hindrances quite the contrary they facilitate our spiritual growth. They help us clearly understand how much Hashem is involved in our lives, how much He really cares and how much we are dependent upon Him.
Through our lacking we can recognize that we are creations dependent upon our Creator.
From one of our readers:
There is a family that I know personally who made aliyah a few years ago and has a very hard time making ends meet. Somehow, they survive and their 6 children have food. I’m not sure how….
Today, while we wait for ‘Our 3 Boys’ to come home safe and sound to their families, I’m asking that you find it in your hearts to unify as one and give any amount of money toward the eldest son’s bar mitzvah as a zechut for the safe return of Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Sha’ar and Naftali Frenkel.
My goal is to raise $4,000. I have a tzedaka organization that is willing to give tax receipts for your donations. Please email me if you would like to help in this huge mitzvah!
Best, Rachel Fleisher jrfleisher@gmail.com
** This coming Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Tamuz, the yahrtzeit of Yosef HaTzadik,BILVAVI MISHKAN EVNEH author Rabbi Itamar Schwartz will be sharing with the women of Klal Yisrael his understanding of what is our Avodat Hashem going forward . Rabbi Schwartz has been described as “one of the main elucidators of Emunah and D’vekut to Hashem in our generation”. Women are invited for this LIVE FREE tele-conference from all over the world to hear the tzadik’s words of chizuk and emunah. In the merit of our deep desire to draw closer to Hashem and learn together, may we see the safe return of Yaakov Naftali ben Rachel Devorah; Gilad Michael ben Bat Galim and Eyal ben Iris T’shura. Access numbers for this call appear on the home page of www.G-ddirectTorah.com.**
