We feel both the trust and the pain simultaneously, and that’s what Hallel is all about
“Maybe it’s time to rethink how we do this whole mechilah thing — no pain, no gain!”
I feel it’s time we graduated from bochurim trips to their grown-up version: shul expeditions
Succos is the zeman simchaseinu, the Days of Joy. The contrast seems abrupt and jarring — why the sudden shift in mood?
Put differently, true mesirus nefesh is not self-reduction; it is self-expansion, an opportunity to push oneself beyond the limits one assumes for oneself.
The Chofetz Chaim’s deep emunah in the imminent geulah was so real to him that despite all the difficulties involved and all the objections, he felt that he had no choice but to make his way to Eretz Yisrael even at such an advanced age
