<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Tzvi Freeman wrote:</span></font> "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; ">We don't like it when we lose something. We think, "What gain could there be in loss?" But loss, too, is a way of growth.Much of growth is simply learning to let go, to loosen the cord that ties you to your "stuff" -- to your material things. Such as this thing you are missing. Only once that is achieved can you emerge onto a higher plane, a plane open wide enough to contain more light and life than before. The divine energy that before brought a loss, can now bring -- openly and clearly -- a blessing and much gain."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">The above is so apropos to what has happened to our economy and probably the worst situation since the Great Depression. However, this may be a blessing in disguise -- a message to let us know that we are NOT in control. Only the Almighty is in control and when things get out of hand, then our material possessions get out of our hand.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">This makes us more aware that our hand should be used more for giving tzedaka, putting on tallis and tefillin, cooking for Shabbos, sounding the shofar and compassionately putting your hand on the shoulder of a relative, friend or unfortunate soul.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">rw</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;"><br></span></font></div></body></html>