Friends Of Youth

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately with growing apart."

I often attend simchas where the chosson and kallah have "flipped out". The chosson has a black hat and payos and always carries around his small gemara and Noam Elimelech. The kallah spends most of her free time crying into her tehillim and asking Hashem for children [at least 12 to start] who are tzaddikim and learning Hilchos Lashon Hara. But at the wedding you see their old friends who have not yet had the Light Of Hashem shine upon them and are still living in the world of Facebook, Monday Night Football and Bloomingdales.

I find this heartwarming. Just because they are on separate paths [in the meantime] doesn't mean that they can't love their friends of youth. Of course in a situation where the old friend doesn't respect the new path of the inspired, the friendship may not continue.

והמבין יבין

ps - those who have called me recently should know I changed my overseas number and in the meantime am having trouble with the new number, so I am not ignoring you.

pps - A new article on the halachic geder of yiras Hashem. The author would appreciate comments, questions, additions or subtractions [even pointing out typos].

Love and blessings and a GREAT SHABBOS!!:)