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FarbiPhone!<br />
Hello!<br />
Hey, Mendel! What’s going on<br />
Oh, nothing. I’m just being<br />
an awesome juggler!<br />
Good! I remember when you<br />
felt that everything was too<br />
much and that you were<br />
dropping all the balls.<br />
Yeah, then you told me to<br />
start with one ball and only<br />
add more one at a time.<br />
That’s exactly what I’ve been<br />
doing every since!<br />
Baruch Hashem! See,<br />
“mitzvah goreres mitzvah,”<br />
one mitzvah brings another.<br />
Right! And I’m juggling for<br />
the greatest audience,<br />
Hashem.<br />
Exactly! When you juggle you<br />
need to focus on what the<br />
audience (Hashem) wants to<br />
see rather than what you<br />
want to juggle.<br />
I guess that makes sense, if I<br />
am performing for an<br />
audience then I should do the<br />
acts they like best, but…<br />
RIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!!!!<br />
What’s the matter, Mendel<br />
Why did you suddenly get so<br />
uncomfortable<br />
I don’t want to speak loshon<br />
hara about another person…<br />
I’m happy to hear that, I<br />
wouldn’t want to listen to<br />
loshon hara.<br />
…but there are some people<br />
who really bother me, every<br />
single day!<br />
What type of people<br />
Well, that’s what bothers me<br />
the most. If it was a goy or<br />
le’havdil a Yid that’s not yet<br />
frum and doesn’t know any<br />
better, it wouldn’t bother me<br />
as much. But it’s my close<br />
friends who make fun of me<br />
and even gang up against me.<br />
I get so angry with them!<br />
Why do you get angry with<br />
them<br />
Because they know what the<br />
right thing is, yet when I<br />
suggest we do something<br />
good they start working<br />
against me.<br />
How What do they do<br />
On Shabbos, for example, I<br />
have some extra time to<br />
daven, so I say each word<br />
carefully and think about<br />
what I’m saying.<br />
That’s amazing, Mendel! So<br />
what do they do<br />
Instead of doing the same<br />
thing, or at least davening<br />
quietly to themselves, they<br />
just stand around and talk.<br />
It’s so distracting and it’s so<br />
hard to concentrate when<br />
they stand there and talk<br />
about such juicy topics.<br />
Wow Mendel, that must be<br />
tough. Do you know the Alter<br />
Rebbe actually discusses your<br />
exact problem in Tanya<br />
Really What does he say<br />
The Alter Rebbe explains why<br />
they’re being so distracting.<br />
Hashem wants you to have<br />
more kavana than before so<br />
he sends people to talk next<br />
to you. When you ignore<br />
them, you become stronger<br />
and reach deeper levels of<br />
concentration in your<br />
davening.<br />
Hey, this is just like what we<br />
learned about Dovid<br />
HaMelech! Even when Yidden<br />
were fighting him, he sang<br />
praises to Hashem because<br />
he knew that no bad comes<br />
from Him.<br />
That’s right, Mendel. In the<br />
end Dovid realized that<br />
everything he went through<br />
was to prepare him to be the<br />
king and leader of the Yidden.<br />
Wow! So I should ignore them<br />
and work harder on<br />
concentrating and maybe<br />
they’ll even do the same one<br />
day. Thanks Z!
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