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Shema... "Echad"

“My son,  She’altiel basically because of  quarantine has become a stay at home dad because his wife Baruch Hashem is still working.


He said that he  finally understood something I'd said to him when he was a little boy. He didn't understand why he would get frustrated and annoyed by his children. They'd be crying. They'd be whining,  this would get  him very annoyed, frustrated, and was unbearable for him. He'd come home from work, he was tired and the kids would be kvetching.. 


He was worried that his kids would feel that they annoyed him. He didn't know what was going on. Then he realized that when his mind was on work , when his mind was on what “he wants to do”, his children appeared to be  a distraction.  


When his mind is on his kids, there's absolutely nothing they do, or want, that's really unreasonable. And therefore he doesn't get annoyed. He doesn't get frustrated. And they're transformed!  The  transformation in them is remarkable.


When  I was a  little boy, I asked my father Zatzal

Does Hashem ever get annoyed when I ask him for things?

So he said, Tayara, (Precious one) He loves us so much. Every time you ask him for something, even if it's a stupid thing, you make him so happy, I promise you. So I said Pa there are times, I ask you for something and you get annoyed..

And,  he said I am certainly not the Ribono Shel Olam, but I am trying to respond as the Ribono Shel Olam wants me to.”


By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg, n’’y


I heard this story from my Rebbie, Rabbi Weinberg,  and thought to myself, imagine if I can daven this way, use this example of how I relate to Hashem.  Imagine if I can listen to others this way.  Imagine if I can listen to the words of Torah this way   as “Echad”..… I suspect the “annoyances and frustrations will turn and transform into the most beautiful, sweet expressions of love..


“Shema Yisroel Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad”

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