A Mother of a Child-at-Risk
Posted on | September 24, 2009 | By Guest Contributor | 6 Comments
By “A Hopeful Mother”
Do you have a child who’s at risk, or maybe already gone off the derech? Well, I know how misery loves company, so I just wanted to share with you a shocking piece of news I heard… about someone (someone really big) who’s kids also went off the derech (don’t worry it’s not lashon hara, because a lot of people already know about it).
Are you ready?
Perhaps you already guessed… it’s Hashem. He has many, many children who went off the derech. And it’s a terrible source of anguish to Him.
I heard in the name of Rav Usher Freund ztz’l that we have to join our pain to His pain. We need to feel bad that Hashem is in pain. It hurts Him more than it hurts us that His children are lost and far from the truth.
“Anyone who prays for his fellow man when he is in need of the same thing is answered first.” Let’s daven – even beg – to Hashem to show His (and our) children the way back… for His sake… not because of shidduchim, seminaries, what will the neighbors think… but because as much as it hurts us it hurts Him much, much more.
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September 24th, 2009 @ 10:13 am
What an incredibly powerful post. Thanks for posting this.
I heard during a Yom Iyun sponsored by Ohr Somayach from Rabbi Dr. Dovid Gottlieb that if you look at Avraham and Yitzchak they both had children who didn’t follow in their derech.
Again, beautiful post.
September 24th, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
Gevaldig Post! Short and moving. Thank you
September 24th, 2009 @ 7:42 pm
Good job. Thanks for posting this.
September 24th, 2009 @ 8:25 pm
Neal (#1) wrote: Avraham and Yitzchak … both had children who didn’t follow in their derech.
Fortunately, many of the Avot and Imahot didn’t follow their parents’ derech: Those would be Avraham, Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel and Leah. The derech of their parents was idol worship and the accompanying abominable conduct.
They turned from their idol-worshipping backgrounds and led outstanding Jewish lives. They must have had incredible natural spiritual talent. That was their “plus.”
We may not have all of the natural talent that they had, but we all received our Jewish souls directly from our parents or recently found it after it got lost between Sinai and today. That is our “plus.”
Let’s use our positive traits and rechannel our currently negative traits to lead lives worthy of our ancestors.
September 25th, 2009 @ 10:31 am
Gary,
Very well said!!!
We all have access to the spiritual DNA of our Avot and Imahot.
October 5th, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
Gary,
Very well said!!!
We all have access to the spiritual DNA of our Avot and Imahot.