Rosh Hashana 5770/2009 - Jewish Infertility

Chizuk
Of Wishes and Windows
The List
By Rabbi Yechiel Spero
SHAAREI TIKVAH/ FALL 2009
Another year has passed us by.
A year filled with tragedy and triumph, highs and
lows, heartache and joy.
We hope that the good times outweigh the bad. In all probability,
there are many events that have happened this year
that will remain with us forever, both on a personal level and
a collective one. We have endured the worst financial crisis our
nation has faced in 80 years, including one of the greatest financial
scandals in the history of man, by a Jew no less. We
watched together with the rest of the world as a handful of
Jews were targeted in a terrorist attack, halfway around the
world; a needle in the haystack of a billion other people. And
yet, amidst the tragedy of that event, a child, Moishele,
emerged and became Klal Yisroel’s yasom.
It has been a year when history has been made. America
has an African-American president; something many thought
was never possible. History is being rewritten. Communication
has reached new heights. Inventions allow us to achieve and
accomplish many ideas that were never thought of as anything
more than a pipedream.
Yes. This year has been quite a year.
On a personal level, many have lost loved ones, some in a
tragic manner and others in a more natural way. Some have
been blessed with a child, while many, too many, continue to
wait for their prayers to be answered.
How can we possibly daven any better on Rosh Hashana
Hashem knows the pain of our yearning. He knows what we
are waiting for. What could we possibly do to make our prayers
more potent and more powerful
The Michtav Me’Eliyahu gives a brilliant tool to make our
tefillos that much better. He suggests that before the Yom
HaDin we divide a sheet of paper in half with a straight line,
and above one side write the word “Good,” and on the other
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