4th of Nissan

Chasidishe Maaseh
Once when the Alter Rebbe was farbrenging with his fellow students of the Mizritcher Maagid, he filled up his glass and said “L’chaim! May G-d help us with our physical and spiritual needs!” His friends looked at him in surprise. “Why did you request physical before spiritual blessings?” they asked. The Alter Rebbe said, “Our forefather Yaakov did the same thing, asking Hashem for gashmius before ruchnius.” His companions responded, “True but the physical of Yaakov Avinu, was on a much higher level then ours. How can you compare the two?”
Replied the Alter Rebbe, “And his Ruchnius can be likened to ours?"
In other words, even Yaakov, whose spirituality far exceeded his involvement in the physical world requested his physical needs before his spiritual concerns. So we too can ask the same thing.

Question of the day
What did the A”R say?

Quote of Day
A chasidishe thought clears ones mind and cleanses ones heart.

Hachlata of the day
Think about the Rebbe for a minute before you go to bed.

Point to Ponder
Seven years old and yet to speak. His parents would have been more worried if the doctors hadn't reassured them that their child seemed neurologically sound, and fit within all the expected parameters of normal development.

One day at breakfast he suddenly turned on his mother and complained, "Mom, this porridge is cold and the toast is burnt!"

Shocked, his mother responded, "If you can talk, why have you said nothing till now?"

"Till now everything has been fine."

How many act like the little chutzpanyak in the above story; never a word of gratitude until everything goes pear-shaped, and then, don't we just kvetch and moan. It's almost as if we expect and demand the good times keep rolling without any effort on our part, while we reserve the right to blame everyone else when the music stops.