Authored by: העורך Editor
[Note: mostly unedited.]Everybody has a good relationship with Hashem until they see someone who really davens.
Everybody feels pretty good about themselves until they read Pirkei Avos slowly.
Everyone knows how to learn until they meet someone who wipes the floor with them.
Everyone has a great spouse until someone decides to change.
Everyone has a great connection with their children until they go and get married.
Everyone knows why children go off until, until… rachmana litzlan…
Everyone has a wonderful, comprehensive, and Torah-true shita for life’s challenges, until forced to test it on themselves.
Everyone can resist temptation (the yetzer is an intellectual thing!) until they meet temptation.
Everyone adores that sefer until they check the footnotes.
Everyone has a close rebbe until he is stone cold when you need him the most.
Everyone admires our perfect Achronim until they seriously study some sugya for themselves, and then wonder.
Everyone is a big masmid until they must travel, make a simcha, or it’s Bein Hazmanim.
Everyone has a great Talmid Chacham they are proud to know, until the mask slips.
Everyone understands Hashem’s world plan until they read the wrong Holocaust book.
Everyone understands almost everything until they wake up and realize they understand almost nothing and look up Descartes (or a frum alternative) as they struggle to put their finger on what it is they do know.
Everybody is alive and active until God Almighty kills them dead.
A prayer found online:
Dear Lord,
So far I’ve done all right.
I haven’t gossiped,
haven’t lost my temper,
haven’t been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish, or overindulgent.
I’m really glad about that.
But in a few minutes, God,
I’m going to get out of bed.
And from then on,
I’m going to need a lot more help.