More Reality to Help Us

                                                                                      בס"ד
I received this beautiful message from one of my dear, faithful readers. It is meant to be shared with all my readers. I withhold the name since I anticipate cynical readers who may get nasty as they have been with me. Here is the message:

Dear brothers, sisters, friends and fellow readers,

I am saddened to learn that so many people push away the messages that Rav Menachem shares. I understand some of the many reasons as I too hesitated to accept the "doom and gloom" the "conspiracy theories" and all of that.

Can it be that the world, as we know, will EVER come to an end?

Can it be that some "truths" we took for granted are not true?

Could it be the lifestyle we are living is not quite what Hashem intended for us?

That we need to adjust, large or small, to align ourselves with the Ratzon Hashem - the Will of Hashem....

But I keep Shabbos!?

But I keep kosher!?

But I give charity!?

I host people who need a warm house!?

But I daven three times a day with minyan!?

But I learn Daf Yomi!?

Etc

Etc

Etc

But I also make Bar Mitzvahs for tens of thousands of dollars.

But I also don't have Kavana (focused intent) when praying.

But I also spend most of Shabbos sleeping/drinking/reading magazines/newspapers.

But I also vacation in places where I should not be exposing my eyes to.

But I also open my mouth with anger and hurtful words and Lashon Hara, with words against good people...

But I also don't spend much time thinking about my relationship with Hashem.

But I also look with envy at others.

But I also check my phone messages during Daf Yomi...

But I also do business deals with just a little too much shrewdness...honesty? Halacha? I think it's ok....

Am I PREOCCUPIED with Torah and with what Hashem wants from me?

Or am I preoccupied with what I can get out of life and the accomplishments I can make and the money to make and the food I can eat (with high quality hechsher of course)

Doom and gloom can be harsh.

But what way can he wake us up??

If we don't want to look at the earthquakes and weather and a star or planet that one might think is imaginary, just look around your neighborhood!

Kids falling off the derech left and right.

Marriages collapsing weekly!

Children sick in the hospital with terrible diseases.

Couples without children waiting for years to give birth.

Singles getting older and older as the Shidduch scene gets narrower and narrower.

People burying loved ones from accidents or illnesses or even suicides all too often.

Poverty sneaking up on people and losing their homes.

Isn't that enough?

Apparently it hasn't been.

So either Rav Menachem can sit by and sigh as his fellow creations of Hashem are lost one by one, devoured by this lifestyle of living for THIS world, and having the world to come as a little afterthought each year around Rosh Hashem's time.....or he can risk getting Emails and comments like he is getting, and scream out to people to change their lives while we can.

Put aside the doom and gloom - are you and I doing Teshuvah daily?

Are we adding minutes each day to learning or davening or have we corrected our tzniut or our Shmirat aynayim??

So if you don't like doom and gloom....try looking at hospital wards or the list of Shidduchim or OTD list or any of the tzarus in the Jewish community....and let's get to work.

No one likes to hear that the fires were because of Chilul Shabbos

No one likes to hear that bad things happen because men at a Simcha are looking at women who aren't dressed tznius.

No one likes Musar.

No one

One way or another we have to wake up.

Hayinu k'cholmim (we will be like dreamers)

Let's make sure we wake up with a smile and not into an eternal nightmare...

You matter!!!

You're actions thoughts and words matter. This is how we build our personal eternity and how we work as a Tzelem Elokim (in the image of Hashem) - we're creating our eternal reality.

With or without doom and gloom the truth exists -

Let's wake up and get going on building our best reality ever, with good deeds, increased delving into Torah, better tznius, deeper Tefillah and authentic Teshuvah, Building a deep relationship with Hashem.

L'at l'at, but we need to get moving!

Thank you Rav Menachem.

Thank you fellow readers, Jews and righteous Gentiles; now is the time to come closer to Hashem.
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I thank you so much for this very inspiring and thoughtful picture of the reality of the world. Your message is very clear that if we were doing the right thing, Hashem’s will, there would be no need for us to be scared into the proper Teshuvah. Doom and gloom has been necessary and used by Hashem throughout history. The fact that we have not caught on is our problem. I should mention that I am aware of the Hebrew that is being used in your presentation. I was going to translate the words, but I believe each of my readers should take the time to look up any word that is unfamiliar. Learning is a big part of doing Teshuvah – here is an opportunity to learn.

As I have said, people who are having problems in this life, or are subject to experience the doom and gloom that is already happening, need to pay very definite attention. Hashem is sending you very detailed messages. There is nothing random in this world. Everything that happens to each one of us, every problem that we have, is Hashem telling us we need to do more. Measure for measure Hashem is talking to each one of us. As my dear reader said so eloquently, we need to wake up, pay attention to Hashem’s messages and do Teshuvah – the correction needed, the improvement needed to solve each problem.

I would like to make a change on this blog. I will no longer post Anonymous comments. When you make a comment, there is a list of categories that you can comment under. The Name/URL is the one that you should use. If you are not brave enough to give me a comment with a name or even a code name, I am not interested in your comment, and it is obviously not something that is helpful or even being nice to my readers. If you have something to tell me personally, send me a private Email. If you are not mature enough and fall under the category of a coward, why bother at all.

Nobody is forced to read my blog. If you don’t agree with my posting, or chas v’shalom, you don’t agree with Hashem, such as getting us to do the right thing using doom and gloom, go elsewhere, you won’t be missed. The only problem is, and I say this sincerely, you need more help than any of my readers. The statement I just wrote will probably go nowhere since I do believe the ignorant cowards who write nasty comments, don’t even read my blog, they just voice their opinions. Why? Because they are so lost in life that the only thing they know is to find a scapegoat, someone to blame for all their problems that they have caused. Here I am; a very likely scapegoat. Come Judgment Day, you will be with such painful remorse, beyond description. That is the punishment Hashem gives to such people.
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Note: I am still receiving comments from Anonymous.  I have stopped opening them since I now know that these comments come from an individual or individuals who don't even read my blog; they just ignorantly show hatred.  I believe that they are all part of the 2/3rd group, so they will be gone soon to start their suffering.