TODAY'S MESSAGE IS DEDICATED
IN MEMORY OF
YITZHAK ben ESTHER A'H
BY ISAAC JMAL

RAYMOND BEYDA'S CLASS
THIS MONDAY IS CANCELLED
MEN AND WOMEN ARE INVITED TO
COME AGAIN ON MONDAY FEBRUARY FOURTH AT 9PM


Little Abraham sat on the floor with a grouchy look on his face.  Ruth, his mother, was unable to get Abraham to explain why he was so unhappy.  She offered a slew of different guesses at what might be wrong and what might be upsetting her son, however, he just sat motionless, with a long face on.  When her frustration reached its peak, she blurted out anxiously, "Well, if you want something, why don't you just say so?"

"I want to call daddy in his office and tell him not to forget to bring home the toy that he promised me", replied the little boy.

"If that's all that you need, all you have to do is ask", mom retorted as she picked up the phone.

 Children sometimes treat adults as if they believe that they have some special power of prophecy.  The little ones become frustrated at not having all that they want and expect that adults in their vicinity should know better than to leave them lacking their desires.  It does not even enter their mind that mom or dad doesn't know exactly what they want.  This may be something that children can't understand, but it is a fact that spouses must know in order to avoid many of the common household spats that develop between husband and wife.  Husbands and wives need to accept the fact that no one in this world gets everything that he desires.  Since humans don't have telepathy.  A person must ask for what they want.  Both spouses must become proficient and asking for what they want in order to function in a peaceful home.
Of course, how something is said is as important as what is said.  Demanding might invoke a negative response.  Nagging may annoy, the one most able to fulfill your wish.  Foremost, however, in getting what you want from another is letting them know clearly that you want it.  Remember, you don't live with a profit, you live with the simple person that you married.

CONSIDER THIS FOR A MINUTE

A Jew is required to say 100 blessings a day because a plague was killing 100 people a day in the times of King David. He determined that the cause of death was that the people were not praising Hashem properly for all the goodness and blessing He was providing. Therefore, King David established that everyone must say 100 blessings every day the dying stopped! (Based on the Tur)