A Quick Breather

My beloved rabbi and spiritual Rav Shalom Arush shlit'a told me some amazing things today:

1. Despite all the reports of the imminent nuclear bombs in Iran's hands, the people of Israel have nothing to worry about. The Rav said, "Hashem, with one little grin, can wipe out their whole nuclear program." The Rav then said that Iran, Syria, Hizbulla and Hamas are meaningless to us, only sticks in Hashem's loving hands to prod us to do teshuva, for our own good. This is of course on condition that the Nation of Israel makes a serious effort to get closer to Hashem.

2. Hashem loves us more than we can ever imagine, but we don't believe that - that's our main blemish in emuna. Since our emuna is weak, we don't pray enough. Our prayers are not effective because we don't believe in the power of prayer, in Hashem's love, and in the fact that Hashem wants to give us everything.

3. When I told the Rav about the two particular GRAD missiles that landed in our neighborhood - one 200 meters from our apartment and the other about 350 meters from our apartment, both in parking lots of densely populated areas, he said that these are examples of Hashem's love - He's waking us up with a jolt, but doing so in a way that so few get hurt.

4. The Rav says that the current lull in hostilities here in Israel is Hashem's delay of the Geula: Hashem doesn't want to bring the Geula with dinim or stern judgments. Rather, Hashem wants to bring Geula with mercy, b'rachamim, and with joy. But, Hashem needs for more of us to do teshuva and strengthen our emuna to do so. No one knows how long this "quick breather" will last. Many speak about difficult timees ahead, but teshuva, emuna, and lots of prayer can mitigate all the difficult things.

5. The Jews abroad must make Aliya as soon as possible. The only justification for remaining outside of Israel is to spread emuna with total dedication.

What are we waiting for?

Comments

[Puah yiska]

Shalom:)
1) thnx so much for keeping the connection open and strong.
2) I could comment on the article as a whole but I have some specific questions also which are:
a) what/ how is an observant Jew/ or a jewess striving for "when they grow up"? Ie: which careers are encouraged, if any? Isn't developing a talent or learning a discipline healthy for us in conjunction with Torah and mitzvot observance?
Instead of formulating lots of questions about this
I'd just like to know what the ideal observant Jewish man, woman, children, family is?
I'm all for emuna, a spiritual life 24/7, observance of Torah and mitzvot; yet, my question stands: what does the ideal observant person/family's life truely look like? What are we striving for? Obviously Moshiach but meanwhile how do we grow spiritually and materially? What's kosher ? After all, we are a body and a soul. The sephirot (our constitutional anatomy spiritually and physically) are totalling 10--3 intellectual areas and 7 emotive areas (in general 7 emotive cuz they are/can broken into sub-categories)
In other words in the "world" at a certain age one looks at what are the most up and coming careers for the next ten years .....how does a Torah and mitzvot observant person choose or guide a child into a career? Just curious:)
Obviously hisbodedut is essential. What else?
Thnx either way:)

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