has been a while since i have been on the forums due to a horrible motorcycle accident my eldest son was in. good to see you are still here and have not
changed a bit. very refreshing indeed!!
Pninah
Pninah
Shalom Rabbi Daniel
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Posts: 2534 (01/04/09 13:55:30) Moderator |
Thank you, but, I'm scared to ask, is your son ok?
A continued refua shelaima [complete recovery] if he hasn't had one already!
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Posts: 2103 (01/04/09 23:23:22) |
Rabbi Daniel wrote: No, he is not ok. His face hit a guard rail at 60mph with no helmet on. He was air cared and on life support for a period of time. His recovery has been slow with many set backs. He now lives with me under my care as I try to help him recover. His brother Aaron, who is a police officer, was the first responder to the accident. Prayers for both of my sons would be appreciated. Has been a difficult time for both of them. I know this is not the forum for this but wanted you and others to know why I have been gone for a period of time. It is good to be back! Have missed the connection with my Jewish family here. |
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Posts: 2535 (01/06/09 00:13:12) Moderator |
Hashem yirachem!
It's unbelievable! In the town where I live, a mother of 7 whose Husband passed away just 2 years ago, Chanukah her house went up in flames. Someone else, their car was just blown off one of the bridges [he lost control] in the recent storm with the 50-60 mile an hour wind gusts. The tragedies are just... May G-d give you all strength and your son a refua shelaima bikarove!!! What is his Hebrew name?
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Posts: 2104 (01/06/09 07:14:52) |
Rabbi Daniel wrote: Jacob. Even though his tragedies are just, it is difficult to understand at times. Would love for you to expound on this lesson, Rabbi. It is amazing at the chain of events that one tragedy can create, affecting the lives of many. Within these tragedies purpose can be found. This I know. However, many times that purpose does not surface for a time, making it more difficult to understand. Not accept, but to understand. I believe binah gives me a glimpse of the purpose. |
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Posts: 2537 (01/06/09 20:25:57) Moderator |
In the Torah portions these recent weeks we've had Joseph, as Viceroy over Egypt, putting his brothers through an ordeal. At some point the brothers say to
themselves that their suffering must be because they did not have mercy on Joseph's cries from within the pit.
From their words we learn there is an appropriateness to stopping and thinking about our troubles and trying to make a correlation to a shortcoming or character defect we can improve upon. This being so and being said, there is still a very MAJOR caveat that comes with it. WE ARE NOT PROPHETS. WE DO NOT HAVE DIVINE INSPIRATION! This means we do not KNOW what happens to us. We can use the above as a means, a springboard for introspection. Making a personal accounting. We shoudn't thinking we've "got it!" It can quickly turn dangerous should we start thinking we know the connection. It is great to feel that G-d's judgment are just. Remarkable! Of ourse it is difficult to understand. No one expects a parent to understand their child's suffering. We try to accept it. We have ideas which can help us accept it. Like that hardships quickly develop sensitivities in a person they did not have before. They create unity around the person that might not have existed before. There is, of course, the spiritual dimension of suffering, it being some kind of reparation, atonement, cleansing for us, to use some bad translations. While we were thinking of growing from a 54 to a 57, suffering can help us go from a 54 to a 79. Without seeing the scope of human history through G-d's eyes, from one end of time to the other, understanding is not part of our equation. That we can understand. To help us accept and to help us cope. And to help us hope.
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Posts: 2106 (01/11/09 21:26:45) |
Rabbi Daniel wrote: Thank you Rabbi Daniel. I am far from understanding this. But I have seen how this has played a part in many lives around my son. Is interesting to say the least. Many lessons in this accident for all involved. |
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Posts: 11666 (01/12/09 10:56:11) Moderator |
Pninah, when Joseph confronts his brothers he does not punish them for having sold him into slavery. Joseph realizes that if it had never happened, if
he'd stayed at home and never left -- his entire family would have starved to death in the famine.
Joseph himself also did a lot of "growing up" from the pampered, favored child, to a man tempered with trials and tribulations -- who rose to the second most powerful position in Egypt! In other words: everything happens for a reason. When Joseph was in that pit, or in prison, or being accused of sexual advances to his master's wife -- he must have been miserable! Yet all of those things happened to bring him to the point where he could help save both Egypt, his own life, and that of his family. We don't know why bad things happen to us. We can't see the big picture and understand "why?" Each soul born into this world will die. Some die far too young, some suffer far too much -- and we may never (in this life) understand 'why." There is an answer. Ask Joseph. Ask Moses, who had to flee from Egypt. Ask those who died in the Holocaust, or those who fight today in Israel. The answer IS there, Pninah. It is there in the Torah. Kol Tuv.
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And everything that Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. Bereshit (Genesis) 21:12
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