Don't Become Rich

By Adam

Yesterday I was at a L’cheim (Engagement party) in C-Hs. Many of the richest, and most influential people of Crown Heights, were there.

Although most of the parents were modern Lubavitchters, their children were barely religious. Poor people have the same problem, as rich people, when it comes to this; but it seems greater in the wealthier families, than it does in the poorer families of C-H!

In reality, to be wealthy in the religious world, is to put your Kids at risk, of becoming non-religious.
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G-D took the Jewish people out of Egypt early, because they were in danger of becoming non-Jewish. If Moshiach is coming soon, it is probably because, we, like the Jews of ancient Egypt, are falling away from G-d, as the Jews of Egypt did.

I am asking, I am begging the young men and women of C-Hs: Run away from the pleasures of the physical world; Run away from the desires to become rich. It will only hurt you, and your children, and the Jewish people as a whole, in the future.

Sincerely: Adam J.
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Comment

Adam, I sincerely empathize with you. You want to help Lubavitchers, to be able to hold their heads up high, and stay Lubavitchers. Which is a goal, that I totally agree with.

I would like to step back, and put things in perspective for a moment.

All throughout history, Hashem has raised the stakes, so too speak, as to what it takes to remain Frum and Jewsih. Examples, Egypt. When the Beis HaMikdosh was destroyed, and the Jews were exiled to bavel.

In Spain, and the catholic church. In Russia, the czar, and the Cossacks, the pogroms, etc. Then communism. And now, democracy freedom?

Hashem wants to squeeze out the deepest levels of our souls. The Rebbe wanted us to do this the easy way, by telling the world about Moshiach, and preparing the world and ourselves, for this infinite revelation.

But human nature being what it is, it is easier to do things, when you are forced to do them.
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In the last Maimer the Rebbe handed out (Purim Katon) he explained, that Mesirus Nefesh in Russia, was Jews rebelling against the communist rule, at the risk of their lives. But when these same people came to America, they assimilated.

Because in America, everything is easy, you don’t have to fight. There is no outside force, that you have to overcome. As a result, the test of America is, that things have to come from within the person. Each person has to discover G-d within themselves.

This will reveal the deepest and highest level of the Jewish soul, ever to be touched- Etzem.

People who look not religious, are like the Baal Teshuvah, before they found themselves. They searcehed, until they found the place within, that was previously hidden.
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The soul is stirring within people. They are not happy with what they have, they need more. They are in a desert, and are desperately searching for water.

It is known, that Baale Teshuvah explode, and go much farther, than others, who were religious all their lives. G-d is waiting, for this explosion!