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Keep Smiling
Short inspirational pieces by Rabbi Avrohom Schwartz, Kiryat
Sefer, author of A Handful of Light, Hearts on Fire
and other works on Mussar and Hashkofa
There are flat areas and hilly areas. If you drive a car,
this may not make much difference to you, but if you ride a
bike, this is critical. For while a bike rider may enjoy
cruising down from the high spots, once he hits the bottom,
again, he needs to pedal hard.
In helping us to travel through our lives, it is mostly
bicycles that Hashem gives us and not cars. Moreover, most of
the ground we must cover is hilly and not flat. So we need to
pedal; otherwise, we stand still. We need to pedal;
otherwise, we fail to reach the destinations Hashem wants us
to reach -- we fail to live the lives Hashem wants us to
live.
But can we not somehow arrange to have cars? This is
possible. To get our hands on such vehicles, though, to
acquire the emotional, intellectual cars we need requires
great efforts. Possibly even greater than pedaling up a
hill.
We have to pray, and then pray again. Still, once we have
them, we may cruise through every day with twice the pleasure
and twice the ease.
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