I just turned 44. I am living the dream. Living in Eretz Yisrael, I have a Beautiful wife and amazing kids, but something is off and it’s affecting my whole life.
When you hurt your toe or finger, your whole body suffers.
I am fixing that.
I am jumping off a cliff and building my hang glider on the way down.
I spent decades following the world’s advice – go to school, get a job, work hard…
I always felt like I didn’t fit in. I wasn’t made to follow the popular paved path through life.
It took me years to find out that I have ADHD and Dyslexia. Then, parts of my life started to make sense.
Many more events took place in my life. Each one opened my eyes a little more.
The midrash says the whole world is blind until Hashem opens their eyes.
You can’t connect the dots in the future but can connect them in the past. I have “dots” scattered around in so many directions that nothing ever made sense until it did.
I have my own business that I’ve been running for a few years. Over the last while, I felt like I was hitting a wall in any direction I would go.
At the back of my mind, I knew I wanted to do something bigger. Something more meaningful. Something that I was meant to do.
People have told me that I am inspiring. People have asked me and told me to teach Torah.
The voice in my head kept telling me “I’m not good enough”, “What if I mess up?”, “I need to make a living so I can’t leave my business”, I’m not a Rabbi”, and more.
Maybe if I work really hard, and do really well in business, I can start to do what I am supposed to do on the side at some point. Maybe when I retire.
Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. Hashem wants something else from me.
I spent my time between my moment of clarity and now, ignoring what has been staring me in the face for so long. I’ve become so good at not taking hints that it comes naturally to me.
I’ve been through a crazy journey that got me to this point and now I’m going to share it with you.
I don’t know what I am doing but I know it’s what Hashem wants from me. I’ll figure it out along the way.
Back to that cliff…
This may be the biggest leap of Emuna that I have ever taken. Forget the hang glider, I know Hashem will catch me.
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Geronimo!!!
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