Just what i needed to hear Thank you, Rivka, (and Rabbi Brody for directing me here from LazerBeams) – I have been in a horrible spiritual/emotional slump this past week, and the theme was more or less what you described – I figured out a long time ago that I don't know diddly, but at least i thought i could rely on Torah – the more i learn, the more confused (instead of clear) i become…and everything i thought i knew about my husband and our relationship has also just shifted in a very unsettling and confusing way; The harder i try to change (i.e. improve, come closer, do better, grow), the more i stay the same…and i feel like HaShem has set me – and the Jewish people – and the entire human race – up for failure. Despair and the sense of "why bother trying? My olam haba is going to look just like this (depressed, distant, disconnected from Source) because I can't seem to do anything right. This puts a whole new – and a much more encouraging and hopeful – spin on the whole thing. Thanks, i needed that…
2. Anonymous
5/15/2011
Thank you, Rivka, (and Rabbi Brody for directing me here from LazerBeams) – I have been in a horrible spiritual/emotional slump this past week, and the theme was more or less what you described – I figured out a long time ago that I don't know diddly, but at least i thought i could rely on Torah – the more i learn, the more confused (instead of clear) i become…and everything i thought i knew about my husband and our relationship has also just shifted in a very unsettling and confusing way; The harder i try to change (i.e. improve, come closer, do better, grow), the more i stay the same…and i feel like HaShem has set me – and the Jewish people – and the entire human race – up for failure. Despair and the sense of "why bother trying? My olam haba is going to look just like this (depressed, distant, disconnected from Source) because I can't seem to do anything right. This puts a whole new – and a much more encouraging and hopeful – spin on the whole thing. Thanks, i needed that…
3. yehudit levy
5/09/2011
thank you you put into words what i didnt know i was feeling…. i am very grateful.
4. yehudit levy
5/09/2011
you put into words what i didnt know i was feeling…. i am very grateful.
5/15/2011
Just what i needed to hear Thank you, Rivka, (and Rabbi Brody for directing me here from LazerBeams) – I have been in a horrible spiritual/emotional slump this past week, and the theme was more or less what you described – I figured out a long time ago that I don't know diddly, but at least i thought i could rely on Torah – the more i learn, the more confused (instead of clear) i become…and everything i thought i knew about my husband and our relationship has also just shifted in a very unsettling and confusing way; The harder i try to change (i.e. improve, come closer, do better, grow), the more i stay the same…and i feel like HaShem has set me – and the Jewish people – and the entire human race – up for failure. Despair and the sense of "why bother trying? My olam haba is going to look just like this (depressed, distant, disconnected from Source) because I can't seem to do anything right. This puts a whole new – and a much more encouraging and hopeful – spin on the whole thing. Thanks, i needed that…
5/15/2011
Thank you, Rivka, (and Rabbi Brody for directing me here from LazerBeams) – I have been in a horrible spiritual/emotional slump this past week, and the theme was more or less what you described – I figured out a long time ago that I don't know diddly, but at least i thought i could rely on Torah – the more i learn, the more confused (instead of clear) i become…and everything i thought i knew about my husband and our relationship has also just shifted in a very unsettling and confusing way; The harder i try to change (i.e. improve, come closer, do better, grow), the more i stay the same…and i feel like HaShem has set me – and the Jewish people – and the entire human race – up for failure. Despair and the sense of "why bother trying? My olam haba is going to look just like this (depressed, distant, disconnected from Source) because I can't seem to do anything right. This puts a whole new – and a much more encouraging and hopeful – spin on the whole thing. Thanks, i needed that…
5/09/2011
thank you you put into words what i didnt know i was feeling…. i am very grateful.
5/09/2011
you put into words what i didnt know i was feeling…. i am very grateful.