I SAW AN HALF PAGE ADVERT IN THE JEWISH TRIBUNE,
LAST WEEK 17 JANUARY 2013.
PLEASE, SAVE ME FROM THIS TERRIBLE ILLNESS !
HOW MUCH MORE CAN A PERSON ENDURE ?
R. CHAIM SITS IN A SHUL,CRYING BITTERLY,FEELING DESPERATE AND ALONE,
HE LEADS A LIFE OF INDESCRIBABLE PAIN AND MISERY,
FILLED WITH TRAGEDIES AND SUFFERINGS .
DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
WHOSE HEART CAN REMAIN PASSIVE AFTER HEARING THIS
UNBELIEVABLE TALE OF WOE, PLEASE DON'T STAND ASIDE,
REB CHAIM IS CLOSE TO COLLAPSE.
IT WAS FOR A MAN WHO HAD SICK CHILDREN AND HE HAD CANCER.
OUR PAPERS ARE FULL OF TRAGEDIES AND THE HOLOCAUST.
WE SEEM TO LOVE IT AND IF THERE AREN'T G=D MADE TRAGEDIES,
WE MAKE THEM OURSELVES BY TREATING EACH OTHER LIKE ANIMALS.
BUT THIS IS NOT NEW AS IS WRITTEN IN THE TORAH.
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS WHEN MOSES WAS GROWN UP.
HE WENT TO LOOK ON THE BURDENS OF HIS BRETHREN.
HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY G=D LET THEM SUFFER SO MUCH.
HE SAW AN EGYPTIAN SMITING ONE OF HIS BRETHREN,
HE COULD NOT ALLOW THIS AND HE SMOTE THE EGYPTIAN.
HE WENT OUT ON THE SECOND DAY AND BEHOLD
TWO MEN OF THE HEBREWS WERE STRIVING TOGETHER.
HE SAID TO THEM, " YOU ARE RESHOIM ! "
THEY SAID TO HIM, " WHO MADE THEE A RULER OR JUDGE OVER US ? "
AND NOW MOSES KNEW WHY THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE SUFFERING.
IN YEARS TO COME WHEN WE WILL SEE STORIES LIKE THE ADVERT
IN THE JEWISH TRIBUNE,
WE AND THE RABBONIM SHOULD LOOK AT THE THIRTEEN PRINCIPLES OF FAITH
AND TRY TO LEARN AND KEEP THEM.