Tuesday, February 10, 2009

We all know that every Yom Tov that comes around we have many lessons to learn from them and to try to come closer to hashem and try to help others come closer to hashem as well. now that Tu Bishvat is behind us what and how can we come closer to hashem. The Mishna in Rosh Hashana tells us that Tu Bishvat is the Rosh Hashana for the trees, if we would take a look at the trees at this time of year they look very far from some thing like Rosh Hashana, they are as dead as can be, but we know that in the roots of the tree is where it all starts from and on Tu Bishvat is when it starts and that why we make a hole Yom Tov out of Tu Bishvat. Many time we look at people and we judge them the way they look from out side. and that is one of the lessons we can take from Tu Bishvat, we make a hole Yom Tov from a dead tree because we know that in the ground by the roots its stating its work to give out the beautiful summer fruits, so too every nishama comes from the highest places and we should never look at the out side, only on the inside because that the place that the beautiful fruits come from and if we will judge people like this the the problem of loshon hora will fall away in most cases and then hashem will judge us the same way and we will be zocheh to all the broches that we could possibly think of.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Hischadshus

Anybody who is concerned about himself and his eternal life, his hope, whoever he may be, and whatever his circumstance, is that no matter what, no matter what, he should always view himself every day as a if born anew.
For in reality, a person is created anew every day, and it's for that reason that we make a new Birchas Hashachar every morning. Therefore, no matter what, one must view his Avodas Hashem every day as totally new.
Everyone does many mitzvos every day, tzitiz, tefilin, etc. But the main thing is to take time every day and to consider how this day in which I am now standing in has never been before, and will never repeat itself. The Avoda of today is totally new, having nothing to do with the mitzvos which were done until now. And they are my mitzvos, that their duty has fallen upon me, who lives in this generation, in this time, today. I am the one who must perform them, and not even a malach, not even Tzaddikim in Gan-Eden, nobody can do the Avodah which I have been charged to do.
חי חי הוא יודוך כמוני היום
The way I am today, on whatever level I'm on, however low it may be. If I'm the one living today, I'm the one charged with serving and thanking Hashem today.

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עתה ידעתי כי גדול ה

The more a person realizes how low he is, he should realize that it's through him that will come out the greatest honor of Hashem. This is alluded to in the Zohar which says, that when Yisro came and said, "עתה ידעתי כי גדול ה'" that I know the greatness of Hashem, then the honor of Hashem was greatly sanctified and elevated. The greatness of Hashem is that those who are far from Him can come close.
Therefore we must all try our best to bring other people close to Hashem, and never give up hope on anybody.
We must also never give up on ourselves, that just because we may have fallen away, far from Avodas Hashem. Because on the contrary, however far I may think I am, Hashem's honor will be greater and greater when I'll try to get close again.