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Thanks a lot Rab Yacob Barber. I was missing your wise and nice speeches! Breaking something in a non-angels team is certainly a good deal.
Isn't the reason for breaking the glass to remember the destruction of the temple?
Really important to hear & remember this in life. Thank you Rabbi Barber
So insightful and so relevant today. Thank you for reaching inside my soul and waking me up.
Please Rabbi we need more videos with your wisdom , I keep watching the same one over and over. Because I like it so much.
Beautiful, beautiful thoughts, and so encouraging.
to anonymous, Chicago and others
Rufuah Shleimah! May you get better fast and have many more years, until 120, together with your husband, in good health and loving peace.
To James Martin, yes, you are very crude and anyway that is not the reason.
to Steven, your story is beautiful.. May you live together in peace for 120 years.
To Steven in Iowa Your story is so funny and endearing. That is love: the fact of making the effort over the years, to appreciate the other person flaws or aesthetic sense. I would bet she knows that, and it would be the reason why she doesnt mind to go shopping again for her new pot not broken ... ;)
Christian Comment At the risk of being crude, couldn't the glass breaking be a reference to the hymen breaking - without that there is no true marriage.
Thank you, Rabbi
You never fail to touch and inspire me.
Thank you.
Yes, my wife was glad when I broke a dish
Rabbi,
My wife likes to buy expensive, functional pottery. She has a good eye for the pieces, and, over the years, I have come to appreciate her aesthetic sense.
Early in our years together, we were in the kitchen. I had been on call the evening before, and I was clumsy. A piece of her pottery slid from my hands and shattered. She saw my stricken face, came into my arms and said, "It's ok. It just gives me a reason to buy more."
So, yes, it can happen that the wife says, "I'm happy you broke the dish!"
And, yes, she is a very, very forgiving wife.
Thank you Every couple should listen to this at least once a year
Amen Thank you for this lesson. You gave this drash over just when I needed to hear it!! My husband and Ii have been married for only 5 1/2 years, and we are both a bit older than most newly weds (I am 53, he is 68). Lately I have been going through some health difficulties, and it has affected my temperment in a negative way. My husband is a saint, though. . . . I do manage to apologize for my emotional slip ups, but I would still rather be better at not finding fault and at being patient, etc. in the first place. I agree so much with what you said at the end, Rabbi--our fault finding radar is usually really a mirror of our own character. Thank you so much for this reminder.
Such beautiful and true
Dear Rabbi Jacov Barber,
I find your explanations so useful for me and my particular case, because your examples are so clear and symple. Thanks a lot for keeping our faith alive in this way. Your words are true from many perspectives, I think. One is the Psychological one: when one person sees a fault on someone else, more than likely they have the same fault belongs to themself. That is why a Psychologist might have little faults or any to be able to help other people. Berakah.
Thank you Rabbi! So good to hear! May all the singles be zoche to find their bashert and to live up to this Torah.
Rabbi my husband and I have not ever heard the why and the wisdom of these customs. Thank you for the insight it was beautiful and much received. We have been married 40 yrs and have never heard this type of teaching/ wisdom spoken of...Blessings and Mazel Tov!