**********TUESDAY’S D’VAR TORAH********* by: R’ Asdfghjkl Chairman of the CR Board
from the Shaarei Teshuvah:
Two men were in the royal prison!!! One day, one of the walls collapsed, allowing the prisoners to escape!!! One of the men immediately seized the opportunity to escape!!! He asked his friend if he was coming??!! The friend declined, not wanting to break the law again!!!
Later, the King’s Guard arrived and found that one man escaped while the other, who could have easily have escaped too, was still sitting there in his cell!!!
The guard began to furiously beat that man with his club!! The man asked the guard, “Why are you beating me??? It was my cellmate who escaped!!!
“Yes, but you had an opportunity and didn’t take it. For that I beat you!!!”
The prisoner by not escaping showed that in his mind, the prison was not such a terrible place to be!!!
??? traps us in a prison!! We become so set in our bad ways and so full of shame that it is difficult to do ?????!!! We have a golden opportunity to break out of that prison and do ?????!!! Hashem gives us this opportunity every day with ?????- and even more so with ?????-as I had said before- ????? ???? ????????. If we do not seize this opportunity to escape, we would be showing that in our minds, the prison of ??? is not such a terrible place to be!!! That would be the saddest shame of all!!!
Have a wonderful day everyone!!!!