Machshava:

Chanukah 

Collections: Rabbi Weinberger: Bilvavi IV

Description

Each person must clarify the truth in their life. We should take each thing in our house to verify if we really need it. We should loosen our hold on the "reality" that is blocking our tachlis (purpose) in life. All our aspirations are within our reach. R' Chatzkel Levenstein asserts that each one of us can grow into being one of the greatest in the generation. The one who became great dug and drilled and never let go and built a true opening the size of a needle. The gadol earned a wonderous gift from shamayim since they kept on striving. But a person usually gives up in the beginning. Hashem gives out Chanukah gelt for those who strive with all their might. The greatness of a person is not what "they" have- it is what "they" receive from Hashem.