Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the blessings and abundance that God has prepared for his followers, particularly the Jewish community.
In this quote, Sholom Aleichem expresses a deep appreciation for the luxuries and goodness bestowed upon the Jewish people by God. It speaks to the idea of divine providence and the notion that despite trials and tribulations, there is an abundance of joy and blessings awaiting to be embraced. This sentiment serves as a reminder of hope and gratitude for the gifts in life that may often be overlooked.
In practice
During a sermon reflecting on God's gifts to humanity.
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.
No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
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