@neilsharris: http://RabbiHorowitz.com http://bit.ly/IkbyWc A three mintue request

“Friendship (hishabb’rus) is better than solitude (hisbod’dus).” -from Even Yisrael p.35. Sited by Geoffrey Claussen in the essay “The Practice of Musar”
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http://www.beyondbt.com/2007/03/22/pesach-seder-guide/

Rav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz, the Alter of Novardok

“A man cannot dance at two chassunas (weddings).”

Meaning, you simple cannot be at two places at once. If you are at home with your family, then that you be your focus. If you are at work, then concentrate on work. If you are in shul for davening, then that is where your focus should be.

This story, “I thought I was the last Jew left” was included in this weeks’ AJOP e-newsletter.

Oh Nuts!

I say this every year, but I really do love Oh Nuts!  We always go to their  store on Central Ave when we’re in Long Island.  Their candy collections are amazing.  I’m offering my readers an opportunity to win a $30 gift certificate to Oh Nuts!

There are 3, yes three, ways to enter.

1. You can go to the Oh Nuts Purim Basket Gift page. Then, choose their favorite Purim Gift and leave a comment on my this post with the name and url of the gift yout love the most.  You must include your email address.

I’ll pick a random winner and Oh Nuts! will send you a  $30 gift certificate.  The winner will be picked Sunday night, March 4th at 10:00pm CST.

2. You can go to the oh nuts facebook page  become a fan and post on the wall the url and name of their favorite  Purim Gift Basket . They should also write “I am here via Modern Uberdox”.

Oh Nuts! will pick a winner.

3. You need to follow @ohnuts and should Tweet

“Win a Purim Basket from http://bit.ly/aWXLzp Follow @ohnuts and RT to Enter Daily”

Oh Nuts! will pick a winner.

Hatzlacha!

Dr. Alan Morinis sites a passage in the name of RYS both in the beginning (page 18) and the end (page 222) of Climbing Jacobs Ladder.

“As long as one lives a life of calmness and tranquility in the service of God, it is clear that he is remote from true service.”

The line is actually from an article written by Prof. Immanuel Etkes, titled, “Rabbi Yisrael Salanter and His Pyschology of Mussar” that was included in a book titled Jewish Spirituality Vol 2.
The quote from there (thanks to Google Books) is:
“But as long as one lives a life of calmness and tranquility in the service of God it is clear that he is remote from true service…For it is impossible that a person not encounter things which he desires and which the Torah prohibits.” (Kokhvey Or, 187)

In Prof. Etkes’ book, Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Mussar Movement, he cites a more extensive version of the more the quote from Kokhvey Or (187) in the name of R Simcha Zissel Ziv:
“It is certainly understood that a man is not considered as a human being if he lives a life of ease and does not labor in fear, for this is the whole duty of man…But so long as a person is living a life of tranquility in the service of Creator, he ought to know that he has surely shaken off and is empty of the service of God, may He be blessed…for it is impossible that person not daily encounter circumstances in which his desire and [the command] the Torah conflict with one another…”

Sadly, a 22-month-old girl, Miriam Orit bas Devorah, was diagnosed last night with a serious illness. Please daven for her. Her parents are involved with kiruv and this little girl needs klal Yisrael’s help.

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I was informed that Eliezer Baruch Chaim Ben Rochel Leah was niftar. I thank those of you who davened for him.
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Please continue to daven for ELIEZER Baruch Chaim ben Rochel Leah, who needs a REFUAH SHELAYMAH.
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