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Today i had to be at work, i didn’t want to, i was hoping not to, but that is besides the point right now.
I was very excited that this week is designated as standardized testing week and i have to spend the mornings proctoring to children with accomodations. This means I don’t really do my “work”, I am just present to read or type answers.
The students are provided snacks by the school and they brought them with them to the testing room. One of the students asked if I had mints as his teacher was giving them out. I sent him back to the teacher to get his mint. When he came back he had a whole plate of lifesavers wintergreen mints and he said, “here, they’re yours to keep”!!!!!!!
NO!!NO!!NO!!
I don’t want to own lifesavers wintergreen mints on pesach, I dont want to be at work while it’s chol hamoed and i just want to be home making lunch for my kids and taking them out! When will Moshiach come and rescue me from all of this?!
Iy”H b’karov.
Agav, you don’t have to be konah the mints if you don’t want to, and they are probably not chometz, just kitniyos.
I hope they give you off for the rest of Yom Tov.
And I’m stuck trying to find a place suitable for our whole family… When will I get rescued…
Could you have taken vacation days during Chol Hamoed?
She said she had to be at work, even though she didn’t want to.
Syag Id like you to visit someone that doesn’t have a job this Pesach. Then look yourself in the mirror, Mr. Tzadik.
Most US jobs only give you 10 vacation days
between 4 for Peseach, 2 for Shavouth , 2 for Rosh Hashanan, 1 for Yom Kippur and 4 for Sukkoth, thats 13 days. usually you get lucky and some of those days occur on a Shabbos, Sunday (Or Memorial Day for Shavouth). You dont have days left for Chol Hamoed especially if you try to take off for Purim and Tisha B’Av as well
I’m sorry for being a wet blanket but
You want moshiach so you don’t have to work on chol hamoed?
And then people wonder why moshiach hasn’t come yet
When a person wants something -be it a Shidduch, children, or Parnassah etc….- he needs to do more than just daven or say Tehillim he needs to YEARN for it. Sadly in today’s situation in the world we’re not yearning for the Bais Hamikdosh and Mashiach why should we? We have everything we need from planes to cars and iPhone etc… even the gift of Shabbos which I can use for physical pleasure of sleeping and relaxing. Im sure if your child came to you begging for a bike that you would get it. Why wouldn’t you? The love from a parent to a child is unlimited and this is the way Hashem loves his children k lal Yisroel.
So when we ALL YEARN and call out from our hearts for Mashiach and a stop to this time of endless tzaros then he will come
May it happen very soon.
Gut Moed, everybody
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I think not going to work on Chol HaMoed is a commendable reason to have a desire for Mashiach, if, as in this case, it is spirituality, not laziness, that is the underlying motivation.
Syag,
I expected the same with you
Moshiach’s agent touched upon it (briefly) the point of moshiach coming is “it will be on that day Hashem’s name will be one” I paraphrased the passuk
We also know “make your will like His will so that he should make His will like yours”
Until then, I think we’re going to come up with nothing
“And then people wonder why moshiach hasn’t come yet”
You want one piece of the puzzle?
Ask yourself what writing that sentence accomplished in the world.
And what was the motivation for you to write it.
And yes. Longing for Moshiach so one can spend Pesach with the family is perhaps quite a desirous thought.
Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt’l said more than once that one of the important purposes of Yom Kippur is to teach us how enjoyable it is to eat.
Maybe you should be more careful when you publicize your judgements of the properness of another Jew’s motivations.
In the future.
I hope.
One should never say “and THIS is why moshiach didn’t come.”
Syag,
I’m sorry if it comes out that I am attacking you just when people say I want moshiach because of how it will benefit ME it makes it sound rather shallow, and I hate that
If that is your intention then yasher koach
You have to really want it and wait for it everyday and soon b’h this year! AMEN!!!
No
It means I didn’t see it as your intention but if it was…..
Additionally, I’m sorry to say but I didn’t read your reply to me so thoroughly because I was too riled up
I’m sorry
Yasher Koach to everyone
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