Time to Think

Stop whining & waiting.
Switch to Praying.
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Who made it ?

In one Rashi it says that Hashem told Moshe to throw the gold into the fire & the Menorah was made by Hashem.

A later Rashi says Hashem showed him a Menorah design out of fire to guide him.

If it was all by Hashem why did get the vision of fire ?

The answer we need to do as much as we can & then Hashem does the rest.
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The Most Important

Which piece of furniture in ones home is the most important ?

We learn from the Mishkan - the Aron where we keep our Seforim !
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Fw: Really! What's Wrong With Dope?

Question for today

How are we using substitutes & missing the real point of life ?

We have a new bklt called
The Point
That we can mail you if you tell us where to mail it !

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From: Gutman Locks <gutman1@013.net>

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:23:34 +0200

To: Gutman Locks<gutman1@013.net>

Subject: Really! What's Wrong With Dope?

 

 

Really! What’s Wrong With Dope?

 

     “Hey, don’t you see it, man?” He was standing in front of the Kotel, stoned out of his mind. He looked at me and asked, “How come you don’t see it?” He was looking at the stones and seeing lights and hearing sounds, or maybe it was seeing sounds and hearing lights. He was really “getting off” on it.

 

     So what could possibly be wrong with this?

 

   Here’s what wrong with it. It rips you off. big time! (Translation for those of you who did not experience “the sixties,” “a rip off” is a thief who grabs something away from you, something that you want hold onto.) And this is just what drugs do to your life. They rip off both your physical life, and from my point of view even worse, they rip off your spiritual life, too. And, that’s what hurts so bad.

 

     A guy was crying to me, “I need money. I’m broke. I only have five dollars in the bank. I have to pay my bills. What am I going to do?” He was really having a hard time, and for a good reason, too. After all, creditors were closing in on him.

 

     I said, “No problem. Give me your bank book, and I’ll fix it right up for you.”

 

     He gave me his bankbook. I wrote in 6 zeros, right after his five dollar balance, and I gave it back to him.

 

     He looked at it and said, “Wow! Thanks a lot. You saved my life. I’m rich. I have 5 million dollars in the bank!”

 

     And this is what drugs do to your life. Drugs lower your standards so that you are satisfied with much less, and you even call it more! That guy who was stoned in front of the Kotel was seeing the physical Western Wall, and because of the drugs that he had smoked, he was seeing it as if he was having a spiritual experience. He wasn’t. He was having a drug experience.

 

     The real problem is not that he was having a good time. The “munchies” are fun while you are munching. (Stoned people often get ravenous appetites to stuff food, usually, for something like a few candy bars.) The problem is that he is so satisfied with his drugged experience, that he will never feel the need to do the hard work that is necessary in order to have a true spiritual experience. He will go through his entire life “getting off” on the stones, not even knowing that there is a true spiritual Revelation available.  And that’s why they call it “Dope!”