Mendel Bluming | Blogger

If someone came to me and said, "I'll give you ten thousand dollars to buy your son/daughter," what do you think I would say? Would I sell one of my children for ten thousand dollars? No way! So what if they wanted to give me a hundred thousand? I still wouldn't agree to it, right? And if they raised it up to a million? Ten million? A BILLION dollars for my child? I wouldn't even need a half a second to think it over. There is no way in the world I would sell my child- even for all the money in the world. A child is far more dear than anything. And thank G-d, our family has been given a few, alright more than a few :) But each one of them- individually- add to making our family rich beyond measure. Some people think kids cost a lot of money. Teach your children that having children is our real wealth. Menachem Mendel Bluming and Rabbi Moss and Chabad.org

The shamash’s flames is there simply to serve, its existence is for the other. It is content in its flame being used to light others, warming and illuminating. It reaches high above the rest not to turn itself into a ruler over them but to carefully watch over them. The shamash’s fire is not effected negatively because of this, it is only given more power to keep spreading light. Our world is waiting for us to assist just like the shamash, to cover light in places where there is only darkness, spread heat where it’s cold, Torah in situations of confusion. To facilitate growth, care, to reach out. Happy Chanukah! Menachem Mendel Bluming and Chabad.org

You can learn so much about yourself in the way you answer that question about who you are and what you value. Our children pick up what makes us mad and they internalize from it what to value. “Dad’s car, now that is out of bounds! You dare pour orange juice on his car carpet and boy will you hear about it…” Things that make Dad happy? Tennis or values? When so you see mom truly glow? What we teach our children when we open our mouths (mostly) goes through one ear and out the other (sorry to break it to you). However, if our children see that real values give us true happiness (nachat), if we get angry only over those utmost important issues, our children will absorb volumes from that. Menachem M. Bluming and Chabad.org

I didn’t imagine so. It is beyond the human ability to conceptualize anything whatsoever that has no basis in reality. All human ingenuity is the result of taking pre-existing ideas and readjusting them, using ingredients that are already present and making a new concoction. There is nothing completely new under the sun. Human invention is the simulating and harnessing of our environment. That's why airplanes are similar to birds, with wings and tails, and cars look like horses, on all fours with two eyes at the front. If you think about every human invention, you will discover that nothing is absolutely original. Even in the world of dreams, human imagination can only design characters that somewhat resemble physical creatures. Any aliens from the weirdest science fiction stories are only overgrown frogmen or human rats with big ears. The scariest space giant looks strikingly similar to a giant lobster. The wildest imaginations have never been gifted to create an entirely...