Miracle that Hashem Did for His children in France

The story behind the terrorist attack on the kosher supermarket. The terrorist and his wife were on their way to make a most terrible terrorist attack at the local Chabad school which is one of the biggest in France. During their drive there, they had an accident and so it drew attention to the police in the area. They panicked and shot the policewoman that approached their car to investigate the seemingly minor traffic accident. This accident saved the life of tens or even hundreds of Jewish children at that school. The car was later found abandoned with weapons as they could not carry so many weapons on foot. Police also found a note with the address off the Chabad school in the car, so the target was very clear.

They then realized that their plans had gone wrong and decided to separate.

The terrorist then decided to attack another Jewish target and went for the only other Jewish place he knew, the kosher supermarket

The terrorist was then dropped off by his wife at the kosher supermarket and then drove to the airport to slip out of France. She caught a flight to Turkey and then went onto Syria, where she is believed to be and has joined up with the ISIS terrorist organization that she and her husband are members of and had undergone extensive training with the group.

We know the tragic circumstances that it ended in.

Can we now not see how Hashem is still always looking after us and our children. Look what kind of miracle there was that could have gone down as one of the worst terrorist attacks in the history on our pure innocent children. I know we lost 4of our best people, and this must not be overlooked, but look what could have been without that little simply stupid car accident that saved the children's lives.

To have a target of innocent children, must tell us great things as to what these Islamic terrorists hold by in terms of humanity. This whole story is so bizzare that it's beyond the imagination of any normal human being.

The amount of arms and ammunition found astounded the police that found it. It was supposed to be a very high toll on our Jewish community.

Ein od milvado, efes zulato.


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R' Tal Moshe Zwecker
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URGENT!

Please dear friends, we need your prayers!

Last night, in an car accident, Rabbi Shalom Arush's one and half year old baby granddaughter died and his son, daughter-in-law and other two grandchildren were severely injured. They were on their way back from the Hilula of the holy Baba Sali ztzl in Netivot, Israel.

PLEASE we request of our dear friends to recite the Tikkun Haklali and Tehillim -Psalm 91 in particular- for the refuah shelemah-complete, full and total recovery of:

Shimon Machluf ben Miriam Varda
Daniela bat Zehava
Nachman ben Daniela
Miriam bat Daniela

and hopefully in the merit of all your prayers we will hear only good tidings and big miracles!
Please spread the message to as many people as possible.

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FAQ – Studying the Inner Dimension vs Simple Faith

QUESTION:

What is the practical way that we can go about the study of the inner dimension, to connect with the G-dliness in everything?

ANSWER:

A] The underlying foundation of Chassidus is to look at the wisdom contained in everything, to attach our thoughts to the inner G-dliness which is found in everything in the world:

(1) To look at the inner grace which every Jew has, and at the joy which he gives Hashem. (2) To connect our thoughts to the inner light within all the Mitzvos which we do, within the holidays, and other Mitzvos. (3) To always find a way not to forget Hashem throughout all of our mundane activities, such as eating, earning a livelihood, and other needs, because we know that the whole world is just a covering of false charm which hides the light of Hashem. (4) To strengthen ourselves throughout all types of falls, sadness and worries by realizing that Hashem is with us everywhere.

It’s clear that anyone who wants to increase his awareness in these things, to know more about the inner ways of things, he should study sefarim which discuss the inner dimension and reveal wondrously how the whole world is but at the bottom of the chain stemming from spiritual sources which took on material form.

B] But the Rebbe teaches us that after all of this, the main Yiddishkeit must be with ‘innocence and simplicity’. In truth, our main searching and struggling isn’t in order to acquire more knowledge, but to be close to Hashem. Therefore anyone who bases his Yiddishkeit according to what he knows is standing in great danger for many reasons:

(1) When a person derives fulfillment only from those things which he knows and understands, even if they are true and holy things, still, Hashem’s light is like the sun’s rays which rises and sets. It’s necessarily so, and it’s impossible even for the great Tzaddikim to be in a constant enlightened frame of mind. If a person bases his Yiddishkeit only on knowledge and understanding, what will he do at the times that the light isn’t shining?

(2) Hashem’s light in itself is very great, and it can’t be grasped in a material body. We therefore have to purify and sanctify our bodies and to withstand trials until we begin to grasp a little of the true inner light.

(3) As long as a person isn’t properly purified, even if he becomes inspired from learning sefarim which discuss internal levels and Kabbalah or Chassidus, that feeling generally comes from the beauty of the novel idea which he has discovered, and that he now knows new and wonderful things. This is of course is also very good, that a person’s thoughts should be elevated a little above the vanities of this world. But usually this only happens the first few times that he learns that topic and he first discovers that idea. When he wants to go back and go over it again, it becomes ‘old’ and he loses that first spark which he originally had.

(4) Even if he enjoys this type of study, usually there is an element of ego and pride mixed into it. Not necessarily pride relative to others, but pride within his own self, that he feels that he’s a person who knows something wonderful which is not readily seen. This isn’t yet the true enjoyment which he can have from entering into nullification before Hashem, to realize the truth of Hashem’s presence in his place.

C] Therefore, the main Yiddishkeit and fulfillment has to be Emunah with innocence and simplicity, to keep the simple faith of Hashem and to know that the whole world is full of His glory, even if he doesn’t see or understand this.

QUESTION:

If so, why do we have to study the sefarim of Tzaddikim? Isn’t it enough just to go with faith with innocence and simplicity?

ANSWER:

A] The passuk says, “The desire of a man’s heart is evil from his youth.” The ‘simple’ thoughts of a person are thoughts of fighting and politics, confusion and doubts, sadness and bitterness, anger and sorrow, and other illnesses.

Therefore, it’s understood that ‘innocence and simplicity’ doesn’t mean to think about whatever comes up in our heads without trying to think.  This is why we have to study the books of Tzaddikim. 

They teach us what the proper way of thinking about everything is, what is the true light in this world, how should we look properly at every situation, how can we remember Hashem every moment, in good times and otherwise, in every Mitzvah that we do, to know how to connect with Hashem specifically through this Mitzvah, be it Torah or prayer, Teffilin, Shabbos, Pesach, etc. how to remember Hashem when we have to take care of physical material needs, and especially how not to forsake Hashem during down times.

B] This is innocence and simplicity: Not to leave the sensible path. On the contrary, we all have to study and learn as much as we can, and it’s a great Mitzvah to sharpen our mind (Likutei Moharan I 62).  The thing is that in our learning we are not looking for the knowledge itself, but rather in order to cling to Hashem.

Therefore, we learn an idea from the Tzaddikim, and we start to think it over, to believe in its truth as the Tzaddik revealed it. For example, how to remain connected to Hashem while in a low, and how Hashem listens to every prayer, and how every word we study ascends up high, etc. Thus, we liven ourselves up with simplicity while being connected to the awareness, even though we don’t see it with our eyes. The light is very great and we don’t have the vessels to contain them as they are.

C] The Tzaddikim therefore exerted themselves to reveal to us Torah, to clothe Hashem’s light with words of Torah, in order to give people a handle on a way to think properly, with a different teaching and idea all the time, not just with an overall knowledge of Emunah that “His Glory fills the world”.

The tool that we have to use to hold onto the Tzaddik’s teaching is innocence, the simple faith that this is the truth. This is perfection, to connect with light of understanding with simple faith.

D] In addition, we have to know that the holy Tzaddikim put a great potency into their words, that someone who studies them should have the merit to enter a little into grasping the light of understanding even when he doesn’t deserve it by himself. The study itself affects a rectification in the subject being studied. But this is only when a person has the simple faith in Hashem’s light being revealed through their Torah, even when he doesn’t see it.

E] Reb Nosson asks in Hilchos Chezkas Karkaos 5, that we find it written that Yehoshua never left Moshe’s tent. How is that possible? Didn’t he ever have to take care of his own needs? The Torah doesn’t exaggerate.

Reb Nosson explains that Yehoshua was so attached to his Rebbe, that even when he went to take care of his needs he would remember his Rebbe, and thus he was able to be connected to Hashem constantly through the power of simple faith in his Rebbe’s words which revealed to him how to always live with Hashem in every place and situation even when we don’t see anything.

By: Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Kletzky.

Taken from Gates of Emunah.

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The birthday of the Journal Mitzvah

Dear friends,

B"H, Today is the birthday of the Journal Mitzvah, completing five years, thank G-d.

I'm very happy for the interest and support of our readers and contributors, as you all know, the journal production is simple in blog format and the printed version is done in photocopied yet I realized the demand of the people for the contents and wishing approach Hashem, it is wonderful to see the hearts sweetening and surrendering to G-d.

Please continue to visit our website every week, there will be lessons in Torah Kabbalah.

May G-d bless you with happiness and health, much peace and harmony to their homes, every member of your family and we can perform many mitzvoth, G-d willing.

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My mission

My mission is a secret. It is such a secret that even when I reveal the secret, it still remains a secret.

Siach Sarfey Kodesh 1-54

Maybe one drop will enter

Why have I revealed so many amazing teachings and stories and shared so many of my thoughts with you? Let me explain it with a parable.

There was once a king whose only son became so ill that all the doctors despaired of curing him. Meanwhile, a doctor of outstanding wisdom came and the king begged him to try his best to cure the prince. The doctor told him truthfully that the chances of the prince being cured were very remote, but if they tried one last thing, there was a very faint possibility that the prince would be cured. 

“But I don’t know if I should tell you what this method is,” said the doctor, “because it will be very hard indeed to apply it.”

When the king pressed him to reveal the method, the doctor said: “You must understand that your son’s illness is so desperate that it is now quite impossible to put even a single drop of medicine in his mouth. However, there are certain remedies which are so priceless that a single small bottle costs thousands and thousands of gold pieces. Now you must fill barrels and barrels full of these precious remedies and pour them in bucketfuls over your son. Obviously these precious remedies will almost all go to waste, but the prince will become slightly stronger. And it may be that as they are poured all over him, one tiny drop will enter his mouth and he might be healed.”

The king immediately agreed and gave instructions to do what the doctor had suggested, and this was how the prince was healed.

Precisely because we are so crushed by the sickness of our souls, the Tzaddik, the faithful doctor, is forced to pour priceless remedies over us, even though it would seem that virtually all of them will go to waste. Nevertheless, the sweet scent is absorbed. And in the fullness of time, maybe we will allow one drop to enter into our mouths and our inner being, and then there will be some hope for us to be healed spiritually and physically.

Chayey Moharan #391

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