“I hate my world”, she insisted, her graying arms waving obsessively. “Everything about it is depressing. The longer I’m around, the older and crankier it means that the world is getting!” “
At some point all of us have experienced the pain of rejection, whether it was social, professional or personal. None of us likes the feeling of being considered inferior, unloved, unwanted or unvalued. MRIs have shown that social rejection activates the same areas in the brain as physical pain.
One morning, a Yiddishe Mameh woke up her young son: “Bubbele, you have to wake up and get ready for school.” A few minutes later, “Ziskeit, go brush your teeth. Sheifaleh, don’t forget your breakfast.” Then, just before the boy left the house, his mother turned to him and said, “Tzaddikl, learn well today.”
One of the mitzvos that the Jewish people are commanded is to build the Beis Ha’Mikdash in Eretz Yisrael.
August 1, 2019