 the final day of Chanuka, we do well to ponder our stumblings, but, remembering Rav Hutner’s thought, to also temper our anguish over mistakes we have made. To understand that failures, even repeated ones, are integral steps toward ultimate success.
To remember why it is that erasing writing on Shabbos is forbidden.
© 2012 Rabbi Avi Shafran
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