His way or the highway
So dont know how many people noticed but im posting a bit later than usual..that is cuz i have been stranded in the great city of new york..i flew standby here and when i went to the airport to get back to my beloved south and the flight was packed! so i had to call to get a ride and now im back in the heart of brooklyn posting from my friends couch...(actually right now im in monsey, i started in brooklyn)
man seriosuly got a block here..soory i just realized that i didnt dramatize the story as i usually do..but u get the pic..maybe if i fluff it up something will come to me..here we go..so my friend came to pick me up to take me to the airport shes never been to LGA before ( thats lagurdia airport for those who dont know) so she has her mapquest directions and we're following them and its all street no highway and im like ur sure we going the right way..well how can mapquest be wrong so we have no choice but follow the directions and finally we get on something that can soehow resemlble slightly a highway so i start thinking we goin the right way and then when we are finally on somethinig that can respectably be called a highway we take an exit that looks like its taking us back to teh begining..we make a circle and seem to be heading in teh opposite direction and we both start getting a bit nervous but BH we soon see a sign for the airport..i get there go the airtran gate and wait forever till the lady comes back to her desk shes making a social call to the other desk..she finally gets back i tell her i wanna fly standbye..i have my credut card adn iD out..shes like the flight is booked! now we all know taht i shudntve been so shocked conisdering my track record with flights and i really wasnt now the hard part was calling my family that i have to stay here for shabbat and then call becky and tell her that im kinda stuck in NY and there is no way im gonna be there to open at 6Am..right..not hapening so much..finally BH i made my phone calls and was waiting to be picked up by my trusty friends who would never leave me hangin..and yea thats basically the story
so the question now is do i have any ideas now that i elaborated?hmmm..going coming turning...
k..this week its taking a long time to crank it out but hopefully it'll work IMYH. we all have a divine set of laws known as the Torah..our directions for life..it gets us from point A (this world) to where we want to go (a nice chelek in gan eden) and we usually follow the directions faithfully doing as it says..yet sometimes we seem skeptical especially when it comes to things taht dont seem so important dont seem like they apply to us..when rabbanim come out and say certain things..we nod agree say yea that sounds like a nice idea really it is ..but its not for me..and we move on.whether its kosher phones in israel or other things..ill give a personal example..i came home from moreshet and i was in a quandry, how was i gonna keep in touch with my friends from all over teh world i cant call everyone..so i decided u know what untill this point i thought facebook was stupid and whats the point but i decoided u nkjow what ill get an account but i wont put any pix up so it'll be fine no biggy..and i didnt really think abt it much and i just went along but then it happened (no -its not really that dramatic i just like the way it sounds) i started listening to Rabbi Wallerstein's shiurim online. and anyone who has ever heard him speak knows that he is so anti facebook. and for a long time i decided that no thats for people who do nuts things on there..im barely on..all i do is talk to my friends..i only have like 75 friends on there..im not collecting friends..and then i started getting friend invites from married men and that real;ly freaked me out..and then i decided a short while later u know what who am i to argue with the Rabbi..hes waay smarter than me he has more torah more experience so i got off..i havent gone offline yet as it clearly obvious dont know if that'll ever be somewhere that i can hold..but for me taht was a small thing that i cud do..now i still dont think facebook is a trerrible thing i dont jusge anyone who has it but i decided listen its emunas chachamim and we all need that in our lives.
the way we connect to Hashem is thru connecting to our gedolim..through followimg them and allowing them to guide us. they are the mapquest the trour guides our personal GPS..they are the ones that lead us to where we wanna go. sometimes it may seem taht it doesnt apply to me adn sometimes it may seem that im going in cirtcles with these directions that i printed up..yet somehow with those "messed up" directions i ended up at the airport. it brought me where i wanna be. this weeks parsha is ekev- the mitzvas that we step on our heels with those chumros taht we think "ahh..its not that important, i dont see the point..im going in circles" but really its the small things that make or break a person..its the details that define us..how u tie your shoe laces how u stand when u daven...the exact second when u do daven before or after shkiyah..its all diufferent its all small things yet somehow we place so much importance to them...
im not saying that we have to blindly follow everything that is told to us but we each have to make sure that we do have that GPS, the tour guide taht tells u how to get to where we wanna go..live is a journey and we only have so much gas in us..in every trip we take pit stops..small detours sometimes..but we have to remember that we only have so much time so much gas..are we gonna use the time we have to take detours from our journey from the path that was laid out for us or are we gonna stay on track follow the directions and get there before the gas runs out?
so it seems that its short this week..but just a shout out a very specail bnos sara girl who picked me up from the monsey bus stop erev shabbat when she had a million things to do..and yea i hope this week wasnt too disapointing to my readers and IMYH we all should gain alot from everything in life and shabbat shalom or shavua tov!
man seriosuly got a block here..soory i just realized that i didnt dramatize the story as i usually do..but u get the pic..maybe if i fluff it up something will come to me..here we go..so my friend came to pick me up to take me to the airport shes never been to LGA before ( thats lagurdia airport for those who dont know) so she has her mapquest directions and we're following them and its all street no highway and im like ur sure we going the right way..well how can mapquest be wrong so we have no choice but follow the directions and finally we get on something that can soehow resemlble slightly a highway so i start thinking we goin the right way and then when we are finally on somethinig that can respectably be called a highway we take an exit that looks like its taking us back to teh begining..we make a circle and seem to be heading in teh opposite direction and we both start getting a bit nervous but BH we soon see a sign for the airport..i get there go the airtran gate and wait forever till the lady comes back to her desk shes making a social call to the other desk..she finally gets back i tell her i wanna fly standbye..i have my credut card adn iD out..shes like the flight is booked! now we all know taht i shudntve been so shocked conisdering my track record with flights and i really wasnt now the hard part was calling my family that i have to stay here for shabbat and then call becky and tell her that im kinda stuck in NY and there is no way im gonna be there to open at 6Am..right..not hapening so much..finally BH i made my phone calls and was waiting to be picked up by my trusty friends who would never leave me hangin..and yea thats basically the story
so the question now is do i have any ideas now that i elaborated?hmmm..going coming turning...
k..this week its taking a long time to crank it out but hopefully it'll work IMYH. we all have a divine set of laws known as the Torah..our directions for life..it gets us from point A (this world) to where we want to go (a nice chelek in gan eden) and we usually follow the directions faithfully doing as it says..yet sometimes we seem skeptical especially when it comes to things taht dont seem so important dont seem like they apply to us..when rabbanim come out and say certain things..we nod agree say yea that sounds like a nice idea really it is ..but its not for me..and we move on.whether its kosher phones in israel or other things..ill give a personal example..i came home from moreshet and i was in a quandry, how was i gonna keep in touch with my friends from all over teh world i cant call everyone..so i decided u know what untill this point i thought facebook was stupid and whats the point but i decoided u nkjow what ill get an account but i wont put any pix up so it'll be fine no biggy..and i didnt really think abt it much and i just went along but then it happened (no -its not really that dramatic i just like the way it sounds) i started listening to Rabbi Wallerstein's shiurim online. and anyone who has ever heard him speak knows that he is so anti facebook. and for a long time i decided that no thats for people who do nuts things on there..im barely on..all i do is talk to my friends..i only have like 75 friends on there..im not collecting friends..and then i started getting friend invites from married men and that real;ly freaked me out..and then i decided a short while later u know what who am i to argue with the Rabbi..hes waay smarter than me he has more torah more experience so i got off..i havent gone offline yet as it clearly obvious dont know if that'll ever be somewhere that i can hold..but for me taht was a small thing that i cud do..now i still dont think facebook is a trerrible thing i dont jusge anyone who has it but i decided listen its emunas chachamim and we all need that in our lives.
the way we connect to Hashem is thru connecting to our gedolim..through followimg them and allowing them to guide us. they are the mapquest the trour guides our personal GPS..they are the ones that lead us to where we wanna go. sometimes it may seem taht it doesnt apply to me adn sometimes it may seem that im going in cirtcles with these directions that i printed up..yet somehow with those "messed up" directions i ended up at the airport. it brought me where i wanna be. this weeks parsha is ekev- the mitzvas that we step on our heels with those chumros taht we think "ahh..its not that important, i dont see the point..im going in circles" but really its the small things that make or break a person..its the details that define us..how u tie your shoe laces how u stand when u daven...the exact second when u do daven before or after shkiyah..its all diufferent its all small things yet somehow we place so much importance to them...
im not saying that we have to blindly follow everything that is told to us but we each have to make sure that we do have that GPS, the tour guide taht tells u how to get to where we wanna go..live is a journey and we only have so much gas in us..in every trip we take pit stops..small detours sometimes..but we have to remember that we only have so much time so much gas..are we gonna use the time we have to take detours from our journey from the path that was laid out for us or are we gonna stay on track follow the directions and get there before the gas runs out?
so it seems that its short this week..but just a shout out a very specail bnos sara girl who picked me up from the monsey bus stop erev shabbat when she had a million things to do..and yea i hope this week wasnt too disapointing to my readers and IMYH we all should gain alot from everything in life and shabbat shalom or shavua tov!
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