During the Three Weeks, each of us must do his or her own part to rebuild the Holy Temple, which was destroyed during this time of the year. What can we do?
Our sages tell us that a divorce is tantamount to the destruction of the Holy Temple. We can thereby rebuild the Holy Temple by first rebuilding our mini-temple, our marital peace. When enough of us attain true marital bliss, wait and see how fast we'll see our national Holy Temple once more. Here's how:
R. Brody , thanku for another from the heart informative spiritual shiur and with all due respect the feeling the shiur conveys, for me, is euphoric; yet , I'm older and have been working steadily at yiddishkeit for many years so the I , BH, have a foundation to ground the euphoria.
1) ?- Does your teachable audience include educators and counselors or if you know is your primary audience "commonfolk" in teshuva mode?
2) re: iPhone gematria - that's an eye-opener and was helpful to hear and yes the technologic age has impacted as all and I am a parent so it's so frustrating raising kids in "Jewish" environments where the educational systems are trying to accommodate the parents needs for their kids to be prepared for college so therefore embrace technology or/ on the other side of the educational spectrum completely shun technology and with that "choice" the family then becomes part of a small cohesive group going against the norm in yiddishkeit. Also sociologically if a family chooses this no technology "camp" there usually are other things out-of-whack ie excessive drinking, possibly mediocre middos...
2)divorce: thnx for reminding of the harsh realities post divorce. On the upside Breslev marriage manuals give strength,suggestions and prayers for divorcees on how to move forward post divorce which are essential for breaking the emotional chaos a divorcee finds themselves in.
3) the hisbodedut , personal prayer, suggestion/ reminder is essential in helping a person become an integrated person.
4) ...no one is happy w/ out a mate... Well... True... But don't rub it in for those of us who are single... How about reminding us to keep praying and / or like you usually do, remind us to thank Hashem for not giving us our mates yet.
5) tznuisdik behavior: you made valid points; yet in yiddishkeit, there are so many versions of kosher that it can be overwhelming for some and , I don't know the expression in Yiddish , but, it translates to : if you have to ask the rabbi a question about it ; it's trief:) haha! So here's a creative strategy I incorporate in my home: we dress tznius and behave in this way in honor of kedushah :) in stead of: your clothes aren't tznuis.... I told you x number of times your not aloud to _____, etc
6) the gay population: well, aren't we all children of Hashem? Ok so it's wrong in the Torah but isn't there a lot of other "capital" crimes committed by others who are not deemed public criminals ? Why is it alright as humans to determine who is worse?
7) Yes, 4sure we need Beis hamikdash so R. Brody please continue to being a gr8 rebbe:)!
Thnku & Kol tuv:)!
Posted by: Puah yiska | Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 07:13 PM
Addendum ...
...a couple overlooked typos in previous post...
Re point 2): building our beis hamikdash: can any educator explain to us bal teshuva and / or convert parents what the rationale is for shunning / ignoring physical education in our day schools , that is unless the day school is conservative and/ or modern orthodox?!?!
It's so hard to put faith into the leaders of main stream schools who don't value/ recognize physical education, benefits of massage therapy, organized sports, healthy food (nothing fancy here) ie tasty fruits and veggies as opposed to stuff they call food like margrine and hydrogentated oil products often served. And then on top of all this alot of the orthodox klal is still utilizing advil,, tylenol, antibiotics, mood altering meds, etc .... Im not suggesting it's all got to be whoisitic, cv, I'm illustrating a point/ perspective that I have seen in the majority of an orthodox population.And this is way of life, in my opinion creates a huge internal conflict in, I can only speak for myself, choosing "kosher-by-the-book-frumkite because our values from home are not being mirrored by the schools and schools are where our children spend copious amounts of time and then , in my opinion, they have doubts about the authenticity of our parental/ professional values so the kids then take the approach, "if you can't beat
them, join them." Make sense?
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Posted by: Puah yiska | Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 07:36 PM