Daily Chizuk #0704

If We Care About The Glory Of Hashem
We say in the Amida that we look forward to the Geula and Hashem returning His Shechina to the Beit HaMikdash and we ask Hashem to return. But that’s not good enough. Hashem wants to return much more than we want Him to. That part is up to us – we need to make teshuva and fix ourselves to allow, kavayachol, the Shechina to come back to its home. It is apparent from pesukim, in Sefanya, perek 3, that being dishonest and deceitful with people holds back the Geula and those who are guilty of such crimes will not be a part of the Geula when it comes. Rabbi Matisyahu Solomon explained, because those sins become public and it gives the Jewish People a bad reputation and thereby desecrates the Name of Hashem, lo alenu.
We should all, in our own way, do our best to bring about glory to Hashem and then, b’ezrat Hashem, we should see His true glory with the coming of the Mashiach and the binyan Beit HaMikdash. Amen.
תזכה בנחמת ציון and שבת שלום!!!