A Response.
I cherish your friendship.
I cherish your support.
I cherish your bracha.
But you say you've never stood in my shoes.
You've never seen the cloud hanging over me.
How can you help?
How can you walk me through my troubles?
But maybe You already have.
You say You're there for me, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE.
You say You'll always stop by to stay "Hello!"
You say You'll always stand by me and help me push MY boulders out of the way.
And I know that Your promises are genuine.
Now it is my turn to take Your hand.
I have everything You have given in front of myself.
It is now my turn to open the pages and study each letter.
It is my turn to act.
"Heavenly Fire only resides on an alter built from the ground"
It is my turn to build the alter
In order to be able to accept Your Fire.
Thank You my Friend.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Wow Hello!
"She's very kind, and she's got a great sense of humor. Extremely witty. I don't know if this is really important or not, I know you're looking for a date for Motti, but I can just totally see her sitting around the dinner table with his sisters and them getting along great! I mean, they've got very similar senses of humor!"
I was staying with a friend in Crown Heights for the week and this was just part of the routine. To me it was so unusual however. Where I come from people meet at school or at work and introduce themselves to each other and go from there. But in the Jewish world, there are so many people setting up matches left and right whether they know it or not.
"Sarah*!" I exclaim. "Did you understand that you could have just said one word differently, ONE WORD, and the person on the other line (the brother of the possible groom) could have associate a great experience with it and that would make the match before the two ever met? YOU could be the REASON why they get married!"
A couple days later another friend of mine was taping me for a video she's working on. She was interviewing girls and young ladies who recently started lighting Shabbos candles. I had done another video with her a few months ago and was really looking forward to the opportunity to get to share my newly enlighten Jewish experiences with the world. And then as I sat in the chair I thought about how much my words, the things I say, can change another persons life. WOW. I better say the right thing. This is a lot of pressure. After we were done she told me that I should really make sure she gets the videos to me. At first I just kind of brushed off the thought, but then I realized: "She's so right! I can record my whole journey. I've just recenently started to learn. Why not start writing it down now, and ofcoarse a few videos will help".
So now I come to this moment and as I sit and think of what to name this place where I'll be recording my thoughts I find myself trying to relate this situation to one part of an email from a freind I read just hours before. "If only we had a cosmic view of the world - we would see the ripple effect that everything we does has on all of creation." But at the moment, we don't. But to KNOW, how something that I say here, that I write down, can inspire someone else to thrive closer to their potential. At the moment, I have no other expression for this feeling then WOW! Wow because I know that at that exact moment it is not I who is speaking and you who is listening. It is Hashem revealing Himself to anyone open to his Glory. WOW.
I guess for a little background on myself, I've grown up on a secular home. The past 7 - 8 months I have started to learn about my culture and my heritage. From here comes the word Baal Teshuvah. This is the definition I have found: (lit. “master of return”); a person who turns to G d in repentance, after willful or unknowing transgression of the Torah’s commandments; a Jew of secular or not fully observant background who has decided to undertake full Torah observance". I am so far from the full embodiment of that definition. So when you read the title "Baal Teshuvah, and I" think of it as my memoirs on learning the ways of the true masters and my reflection of my journey home.
May the journey be the embodiment of The Essence for each of us, and thank You for allowing me to share my journey with you.
I was staying with a friend in Crown Heights for the week and this was just part of the routine. To me it was so unusual however. Where I come from people meet at school or at work and introduce themselves to each other and go from there. But in the Jewish world, there are so many people setting up matches left and right whether they know it or not.
"Sarah*!" I exclaim. "Did you understand that you could have just said one word differently, ONE WORD, and the person on the other line (the brother of the possible groom) could have associate a great experience with it and that would make the match before the two ever met? YOU could be the REASON why they get married!"
A couple days later another friend of mine was taping me for a video she's working on. She was interviewing girls and young ladies who recently started lighting Shabbos candles. I had done another video with her a few months ago and was really looking forward to the opportunity to get to share my newly enlighten Jewish experiences with the world. And then as I sat in the chair I thought about how much my words, the things I say, can change another persons life. WOW. I better say the right thing. This is a lot of pressure. After we were done she told me that I should really make sure she gets the videos to me. At first I just kind of brushed off the thought, but then I realized: "She's so right! I can record my whole journey. I've just recenently started to learn. Why not start writing it down now, and ofcoarse a few videos will help".
So now I come to this moment and as I sit and think of what to name this place where I'll be recording my thoughts I find myself trying to relate this situation to one part of an email from a freind I read just hours before. "If only we had a cosmic view of the world - we would see the ripple effect that everything we does has on all of creation." But at the moment, we don't. But to KNOW, how something that I say here, that I write down, can inspire someone else to thrive closer to their potential. At the moment, I have no other expression for this feeling then WOW! Wow because I know that at that exact moment it is not I who is speaking and you who is listening. It is Hashem revealing Himself to anyone open to his Glory. WOW.
I guess for a little background on myself, I've grown up on a secular home. The past 7 - 8 months I have started to learn about my culture and my heritage. From here comes the word Baal Teshuvah. This is the definition I have found: (lit. “master of return”); a person who turns to G d in repentance, after willful or unknowing transgression of the Torah’s commandments; a Jew of secular or not fully observant background who has decided to undertake full Torah observance". I am so far from the full embodiment of that definition. So when you read the title "Baal Teshuvah, and I" think of it as my memoirs on learning the ways of the true masters and my reflection of my journey home.
May the journey be the embodiment of The Essence for each of us, and thank You for allowing me to share my journey with you.
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