Neshomele
So ya..its the big day tonight...what to say what to say? there is so much...im gonna go the usual route..say a story see what happens where it goes..
There is at this jewish girl in my class who isnt frum and we were coming outta lab one night and she is taking a piece of (non kosher) gum and shes examinng that package as shes chewing..u cant have this right? and i respond..no..and shes checking the ingridients..it has no gelatin...but there is no hechsher..ya i say the only orbit i can have is the isreali ones...comes next week and ive bought myself a nice supply of must gum we're leaving and im pullin out my gum..i finally bought myself gum i tell her...shes like "uch that gum is gross i only have that stuff on pesach its the worst gum" yea well dont have that many choices its either that or bazooka and who chews that anymore (totally not worth the calories) k fastfoward to the next week im sitting outside bio lab (the previouly mentioned lab was organic chem) and im talking to my labpartner and im chewing my gum and she askes me if i happen to have gum..im like sure..but its kosher gum..shes like what does that mean? i respond that im jewish and i keep the laws of kosher..so she says so does that mean taht its blessed by the rabbi? and im like laughing to myself and i say..no w just have certain dietary standards that we keep we dont eat gelatin..wow so interesting she says anjd she takes a piece..so we go in and she asks me if im a devout jew and i say..yea pretty much adn then she starts telling me how tahts so cool and how its so importnat to have something that u believe in no matter what and that her husband leads worship she never had it in her childhood but now as shes raising her kids she sees how important it is and all that...in the middle of lab she turns to me adn she says "wow this is good gum..my ming immidiently went to my friend who said how much she hated "must"..end of story is that this week at organic chem lab i was walking out with my jewish friend and i told her about the story and how the non-jewish lady loved my kosher gum and she laughed and we moved on...
so what are the lessons in my story? what is it that we can take from this that will inspire us for the next day or two hopefully? well really i shud just leave u the story and challnege u to come up with something urselves but seeing as im the nice person that i am... as well as the fact that i need to bring out for myself so here it goes..
well the first thing that striked me is that she asked what does kosher mean- is it blessed by the rabbi? now we all know taht is not the meaning of kosher but in a sense maybe it shud be..meaning that just bcz something we do is technically kosher..if we were to ask a rabbi to give us his blessing on that action wud he? i dont know how clear im being..i think this is a good example in israel we all know of the famouse Cafe Rimon. its been there forever..most of us have gone there on one oocasion or another (its tge best for when hunger strikes in the middle of the night) and there has been long the question of the hechsher..is it good milchigs or fleishigs..BH now the hechher on both sides is reliable (last i was there) but i always heard that the only reason there is no Badatz on the resturant is bcz of teh hours it keeps and the location. Here in shmutz laaretz its such a foreign concept to us...if there is a mashgiach on site and the food is kosher what is the problem? so heres my point...the technicalitis may be right but is it blessed by the rabbi..is it something that i wud be proud to do in front of my sem principle, my rav, the Chofetz Chaim..HASHEM!?
these are questions that we have to ask ourselves before we do something..we have to make sure that when we do something its something taht come rosh hashana we can sit and watch the movie of our life with ease knowing there is no busha no anxiety bcz u know what u did was "blessed by the rabbi" better yet blessed by Hashem..we want Him to give us a year of tova of simcha ,bracha.. we want these things but how can we expect as such if we arent making Him proud. we are the chosen nation we are His children and its up to us to prove ourselves worthy its up to us to take that responsiblity very seriously and to take it to heart and apply to our lives everwhere we go in everything we do and say..before we do something we have to have that voice in our heads that asks..is this gonna make my Father proud..is this going to exult His glory in this world..
coming up tonight for some sooner than others..is Rosh Hashana..the begining of the year the coronation of the King..He is our King but better yet He is our Father..we are the princesses of the palace..He loves us and wants us to have good but we have to be worthy we have to be worthy as princesses and if we are not yet worthy we must want to be worthy...i dont know if i mentioned this before but i think its a powerful line in anycase..we ask how can we explain the concept of yirah and ahava it seems as if they are two contradicting ideas..i heard this idea from R' Wallerstein who i belive was quoting R' Pincus z"l, we have to serve Hashem with the fear of dissapointig a loved one...as children , parents, wives, we all have one basic fear of dissapointing those in our lives..of bringing sadness to them when we shudve; cudve brought them joy...
and with that i move on to my last quick point...that my bio partner brought up..having that faith in something is so important..believing in Hashem and believing taht He runs the world..is the most amazing gift anyone cud have or give..we are so lucky that we can recognize Hashem's involvement in our lives and its the biggest comfort to know that He is there for us watching us taking care of us...even in our darkest hour it is to Him and only Him to whom we turn..but the question is..do we really believe..is it something taht we just say? or is it something that is somethin that we truly believe,a belief that cannot be shaken? is it lip service or is it something taht defines us? makes us who we are? does our connection to Him guide every choice we make evry word we say ? it has to be, the anser has to be yes to all those questiosn..we must make Him part of our every decison..we must feel our neshama in our every limb, permeating throughout our body...our neshama is who we are and how connected we are to our Father..thats who are neshama is..so the choice is yours? who is ur neshama?
There is at this jewish girl in my class who isnt frum and we were coming outta lab one night and she is taking a piece of (non kosher) gum and shes examinng that package as shes chewing..u cant have this right? and i respond..no..and shes checking the ingridients..it has no gelatin...but there is no hechsher..ya i say the only orbit i can have is the isreali ones...comes next week and ive bought myself a nice supply of must gum we're leaving and im pullin out my gum..i finally bought myself gum i tell her...shes like "uch that gum is gross i only have that stuff on pesach its the worst gum" yea well dont have that many choices its either that or bazooka and who chews that anymore (totally not worth the calories) k fastfoward to the next week im sitting outside bio lab (the previouly mentioned lab was organic chem) and im talking to my labpartner and im chewing my gum and she askes me if i happen to have gum..im like sure..but its kosher gum..shes like what does that mean? i respond that im jewish and i keep the laws of kosher..so she says so does that mean taht its blessed by the rabbi? and im like laughing to myself and i say..no w just have certain dietary standards that we keep we dont eat gelatin..wow so interesting she says anjd she takes a piece..so we go in and she asks me if im a devout jew and i say..yea pretty much adn then she starts telling me how tahts so cool and how its so importnat to have something that u believe in no matter what and that her husband leads worship she never had it in her childhood but now as shes raising her kids she sees how important it is and all that...in the middle of lab she turns to me adn she says "wow this is good gum..my ming immidiently went to my friend who said how much she hated "must"..end of story is that this week at organic chem lab i was walking out with my jewish friend and i told her about the story and how the non-jewish lady loved my kosher gum and she laughed and we moved on...
so what are the lessons in my story? what is it that we can take from this that will inspire us for the next day or two hopefully? well really i shud just leave u the story and challnege u to come up with something urselves but seeing as im the nice person that i am... as well as the fact that i need to bring out for myself so here it goes..
well the first thing that striked me is that she asked what does kosher mean- is it blessed by the rabbi? now we all know taht is not the meaning of kosher but in a sense maybe it shud be..meaning that just bcz something we do is technically kosher..if we were to ask a rabbi to give us his blessing on that action wud he? i dont know how clear im being..i think this is a good example in israel we all know of the famouse Cafe Rimon. its been there forever..most of us have gone there on one oocasion or another (its tge best for when hunger strikes in the middle of the night) and there has been long the question of the hechsher..is it good milchigs or fleishigs..BH now the hechher on both sides is reliable (last i was there) but i always heard that the only reason there is no Badatz on the resturant is bcz of teh hours it keeps and the location. Here in shmutz laaretz its such a foreign concept to us...if there is a mashgiach on site and the food is kosher what is the problem? so heres my point...the technicalitis may be right but is it blessed by the rabbi..is it something that i wud be proud to do in front of my sem principle, my rav, the Chofetz Chaim..HASHEM!?
these are questions that we have to ask ourselves before we do something..we have to make sure that when we do something its something taht come rosh hashana we can sit and watch the movie of our life with ease knowing there is no busha no anxiety bcz u know what u did was "blessed by the rabbi" better yet blessed by Hashem..we want Him to give us a year of tova of simcha ,bracha.. we want these things but how can we expect as such if we arent making Him proud. we are the chosen nation we are His children and its up to us to prove ourselves worthy its up to us to take that responsiblity very seriously and to take it to heart and apply to our lives everwhere we go in everything we do and say..before we do something we have to have that voice in our heads that asks..is this gonna make my Father proud..is this going to exult His glory in this world..
coming up tonight for some sooner than others..is Rosh Hashana..the begining of the year the coronation of the King..He is our King but better yet He is our Father..we are the princesses of the palace..He loves us and wants us to have good but we have to be worthy we have to be worthy as princesses and if we are not yet worthy we must want to be worthy...i dont know if i mentioned this before but i think its a powerful line in anycase..we ask how can we explain the concept of yirah and ahava it seems as if they are two contradicting ideas..i heard this idea from R' Wallerstein who i belive was quoting R' Pincus z"l, we have to serve Hashem with the fear of dissapointig a loved one...as children , parents, wives, we all have one basic fear of dissapointing those in our lives..of bringing sadness to them when we shudve; cudve brought them joy...
and with that i move on to my last quick point...that my bio partner brought up..having that faith in something is so important..believing in Hashem and believing taht He runs the world..is the most amazing gift anyone cud have or give..we are so lucky that we can recognize Hashem's involvement in our lives and its the biggest comfort to know that He is there for us watching us taking care of us...even in our darkest hour it is to Him and only Him to whom we turn..but the question is..do we really believe..is it something taht we just say? or is it something that is somethin that we truly believe,a belief that cannot be shaken? is it lip service or is it something taht defines us? makes us who we are? does our connection to Him guide every choice we make evry word we say ? it has to be, the anser has to be yes to all those questiosn..we must make Him part of our every decison..we must feel our neshama in our every limb, permeating throughout our body...our neshama is who we are and how connected we are to our Father..thats who are neshama is..so the choice is yours? who is ur neshama?
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