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Comments for 148 West http://148west.com NEVER EVER DESPAIR! Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.37 Comment on Links by Ozer Bergman http://148west.com/links/#comment-476 Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:43:10 +0000 http://148west.com/?page_id=127#comment-476 CHAZAK ACHI!

]]> Comment on What Does Rebbe Nachman Want? by Ozer Bergman http://148west.com/what-rebbe-nachman-wants/#comment-475 Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:42:28 +0000 http://148west.com/?page_id=187#comment-475 Sorry for the delay in responding. I’m not the most active blogger, to put it mildly.
Hope you are still doing hitbodedut.

]]> Comment on Can’t Make it to Uman? by Avrohom Rek http://148west.com/topical/cant-make-uman/#comment-471 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 06:08:58 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=492#comment-471 Thanks this connected me with the previous times I was in Uman and what Hashem gave me then and continues to give me and WHOLE family.

]]> Comment on Links by Avrohom Rek http://148west.com/links/#comment-470 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 05:50:25 +0000 http://148west.com/?page_id=127#comment-470 Love it. Hatzlocha. I’ll be back. IyH . I read Likutei Tefilos 1-84, the first paragraph, I reviewed its love, desire, and yearning for Eretz Yisroel with my Wife and Shabos guest, who’s a Rav and lives in Afula, with my Chavrusa, learning associate, and son. I can’t put it down.

]]> Comment on What Does Rebbe Nachman Want? by Sheila http://148west.com/what-rebbe-nachman-wants/#comment-431 Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:02:32 +0000 http://148west.com/?page_id=187#comment-431 Just to thank you in giving classes and giving the opportunity to connect more to Hashem by explaining more each day.

Sheila Rubio

]]> Comment on Anchors Aweigh! Away? A Way? by Shlomo Dubrowin http://148west.com/practice/anchors-aweigh-away-way/#comment-344 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:35:58 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=472#comment-344 I just read your post. It’s interesting. 2 Shabbatot ago I was in a southern city and there were 2 Jews in the city. The other Jew is not yet religious, but when he saw me wearing my Shabbat clothes he said he felt like it was Shabbat and he even came up to make kiddush in my room.

Our mantra for the trip was “Gam Ze LeTova” from Nachum ben Gamzu. On the way home our flight from that city to Beijing was delayed and I was really worried we would miss our connection. I was worried about making my wife upset if I wasn’t home for Shabbat with her parents and that I didn’t have any food left. My colleague was the one with Emuna and I was afraid.

That being said, there are times when I have Emuna and I can let go and let Hashem control what is going on.

Last Shabbat, I made it back to Israel Friday morning, I was at the Kotel and 100 soldiers walked in. We davened with the soldiers and when I said kaddish (I was the only one) 200-300 Yiddin answered. Davening and dancing with the holy soldiers was such a high, but having so many people answer my kaddish loudly was really over the top. I felt the warmth coming off Har HaBayit. I could feel Hashem’s embrace.

I think it’s like everything in spritual pursuits. Sometimes we need to bring it out from the inside and sometimes we have to push or force it from the outside. As far as I understand it, that is why we have the Shemona Esrei written out, but we can also add to it. We are given a structure a framework and we can add to it when and if we feel the need.

Thank you for sharing your story and letting me know it’s not just me that feels fake (half-hearted) sometimes in my strive to become close to Hashem and do his will.

Shlomo

]]> Comment on Erev Shabbat with the Zohar (Part 1 of 2) by Moshe Dovid http://148west.com/practice/erev-shabbat-zohar-part-1-2/#comment-289 Sun, 06 Jul 2014 09:12:08 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=392#comment-289 Yashar Ko’ach! Thanks for this.

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