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Today’s Daily Dose of Emuna is dedicated to the hatzlocha of Nissan ben Malka who is scheduled to have a court hearing today to be released from prison. I have been B’H dedicating chesed projects in his merit for his safe arrival home and end to his terrible ordeal of being in jail for 3+ years on charges that were not justified. Please daven for his release. I will update later B’H with good news, amen.
We live in a generation where we long for practical advice on how to live with Hashem. Pesach, the holiday of redemption, teaches that through a pure and holy mouth, words that are spoken from our inner point of truth (aka our G-dly soul), is the way.
Prayers that emanate from our soul, words spoken of yearning to connect with Hashem and fulfill His will, are essentially the language of the soul. They are intimately bonded to our craving to reach our point of greatness and complete the mission which we were sent to fulfill when we came into this lowly world. Not only does this lead to clarity of mind, thought and action, but it sweetens personal and collective judgments.
Hashem wants only our ultimate best. Therefore, He will do whatever it takes to shift our paths to where we must travel and for which we are here. There is a midrash that teaches that Hashem does not want His children to come to Him after 120 and complain with words of, “Why didn’t you ‘wake me up’ and show me that I was living without purpose?” Hence, Borei Olam does everything possible, keeping with the world’s design of free will, to veer us from our erred path.
The immediate affect of conversing with our Creator and expressing our innermost desire and struggles is one achieved by the known service called therapy. Actually this is appropriately called ‘self-therapy’, a chance to engage in honest soul searching that in due time rewards us with bountiful emuna.
