today i was at a bris and as the child was cut with the bond of g-d, he cried...as he cried we all cried in our hearts for the moshiach to finally come...we cried like moshe'ly cried "emma-emma" at the memorial for his parents r'l in India
everyone is crying "ad mosia" aloud or quietly..
yet as we rushed our children to say tehillim for the yidden-shulchim of mumbia r"l did we wonder what effect it has on them... "from the mouths of the young children we get strength" we need the prayers of children and yet they need our support and love...
they prayed and have yet to see the physical answer to their prayers ..a child needs support and love...everyone is glued to the media and the constant news -videos -articles -memorials
we must not forget our children and remind them that Hashem is with them and us and they should desire life. teach them to desire shlichus and to do the rebe's work in what ever capacity they find them selves but most of all to live the rebbe's will !
to have miserat nefesh to live in the shlichus of the rebbe.
one can only wonder how the lubavitch kids in Russia living under Stalin learning in a hidden cheder in Samarkand, Tashkent, Charkhov and heard stories of heroism and mesrot nefest of legendary chassidm like r'mendel futerfas, r'chonia marozov, r'yesroel nevelor who spent time in Russian prison and some of whom where shot to death in prison. These little chabad kids hear all the stories and look up to these chasidim as heros'...
people to emulate and hence search for mesrot nefesh that they too end up g-d forbid in a Russian prison or gulag for yiddishkiet..
No! the rebbe taught us...our way is that of avorhom avinu to live and spread yiddihkiet not the meseret nefesh of Rebbe Akiva...our "inyan" is "v'yikra shom bsehm hashem" we do not look for meseret nefesh we look to call out and make others call out g-d's name...we look to do the rebbe's will and if g-d forbid the situations calls for....but we do not look for meserat nefesh.
i do not know what the lubavitch russian kids thought but i do know that some of the finest shluchim living today are those kids growing up in russia watching thier elders sacrifice all of the friedeker rebbe...they choose to live and make others live yiddishkiet
we must teach our children that the true chosid , the true shlaiach is about life and bringing hashem into every part of life living it on earth. Hashem aloud this Moshe'ly to live as he allowed Moshe rabbenu to live. min hamayim meshsehu.... g-d sent baya to take moshe out of the water g-d sent sandra to take moshe out of the fire ...
our generation is the moshe of the golus... we are the remnant of the sword of the crusades...the
public burnings of spain...the ashes of the crematoria ....the sucide bombers of israel ...the bombs and bullets of terrorism.... and mumbia.... ad mosai ad mosia...
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