Coming up for air
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, but BH, I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
Honestly, I’m not so unhappy about being mostly offline at the moment, as it’s kept me out of the stomach churning ‘Gaza Big Brother’ happening at the moment, that just feels so very wrong, for so very many reasons.
And it’s also keeping me out of all the pointless speculation about evil politicians who OF COURSE ARE EVIL.
Like, duh!!!!! a million times over.
That we even have to ponder this question is a sign of how ‘Amalek’ has confused us all, and sown so very much doubt in our minds that we literally think that ‘bad’ is ‘good’.
And vice-versa.
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So, lots of good has come out of me being mostly offline.
And I’m not planning on running back into the muck so fast, tell you the truth.
That said, BH, I am working on translating more of the Rav’s stuff, and I’m also continuing with my ‘real Jewish history’ stuff, behind the scenes.
But most of all, I’m planning on trying to see the ongoing good in my real, every-day life, and to make more of an effort to appreciate the good in the real people around me, and also, in myself.
There’s been such a ‘vibe’ of yeoush, such a down vibe of Jewish self-loathing raining down on us recently, in a million ways.
But so many Jews are still so awesome.
So many Jews are still getting up every day, and serving God (trying to…) and continuing to live life, and continuing to move forward, and continuing to do kindnesses for others, and continuing to try to improve things within themselves and around them, even though the media is painting such a horrible, depressing picture all the time.
Tachlis, most of the Jews are not giving up – at all.
Even though of course sometimes, we all have ‘down’ days when all we want to do is crawl under a rock somewhere and wait for the madness to pass.
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This is probably driving the Evils nuts.
I’m sure they were hoping we all would have just broken apart by now, with all the constant pressure they keep applying in a million different ways.
That’s not happening.
We are battered and bruised, for sure.
But the Jew is like an olive.
The more you squeeze, the more the good stuff is extracted.
And that’s what is happening now, albeit not in the media, and not for what passes as our public discourse and institutions.
But it’s happening in the homes and hearts of so many Jews, all over the world.
And every drop of ‘good’ extracted will be used to light the way forward, here.
Because we aren’t giving up.
And we are fast approaching the point when the Evils are finally going to be unmasked and punished for all the destruction and suffering they’ve caused, and are still trying to cause.
Personally, that’s the bit I’m really looking forward to.
Please keep updating us with the ravs wisdom when you feel up to it! I get so much out of it
mazel tov grandma,youre a very smart lady but not appointed by hashem to save israel(a little jerusalem syndrom?) enjoy your approaching old(ER)age and as the natives hereboughts say “kechi et zeh be easy!
Lovely bizayon, thanks. Did you pick that up from Chabad?
i was joking(albeit in a sarcastic way) but i greatly respect your intelligence and caring. i thought of adding ‘pleasing your husband ” but thought you might take umbrdge(i was right!)dont take it(or me) seriously!
Thanks for coming back on this. ‘I was just joking’ is one of those get out of jail free cards the yetzer loves to use.
All of us have a yetzer hara, and even with a full hour of hitbodedut every single day trying to catch where the ‘shadow side’ is in the driving seat, it’s still very hard to figure out what our true motivations in saying stuff sometimes might be.
In my experience, ‘just joking’ is used when people really do want to say what they said, but don’t want to deal with the consequences.
I think we all need to start thinking about the next (few?) step(s) it will take to get us to the Kingdom of David’s (son-after-son, from his day to ours and beyond) Descendant.
I’ve already written one post (https://havahaaharona.blogspot.com/2025/02/now-its-time-to-think-about-kingdom.html) It’s time to think about The Kingdom!
Seriously, I see a lot of people not trusting our government, and wondering what would happen if we just let it fall.
I don’t know, and, like most people, I’m not accustomed to living under a kingdom (unlike you, Rivka, and people from the few nations on earth that even have one, even if it’s only a figurehead, unlike the one we Jews in Israel are supposed to have…). I’ve been working on myself to even accept the idea that society would run very differently from what we have now.
While I was writing the post, I looked up where HaShem promised David that his kingdom would be forever, and found links to these passages online. I usually use Chabad’s site because I like their format (and also because I don’t know of others that have Hebrew, English and the choice of Rashi, other commenters or not).
If you have links to places you like better, please let me know. Many thanks in advance!
❤thank you