Only You - R. Don Jarashow - TorahAnytime.com

once saw from Revd Miller. He shares perspective just on this. He says a person can get very comfortable in this world. those to have families, to be married, to have wives, a wife and children. It creates a safety net, a safe haven hopefully for that shias, peace, harmony in the home. We have children and we get comfortable and that's the way it's supposed to be. We breathe for them literally. We work for them. We sacrifice for them. We build our homes around them. And ultimately, we fill our hearts with them. We become we're a family. We're a unit. We're one. And that's the way wants it. But there's a sobering truth we dare not forget which is what the over here is saying and that is that on the day of judgment they won't be there with us not because they don't love us not because they don't want to be but because they can't and Miller would say that as much as we find security in our family and as dear as they are to us and they are everything but they cannot carry us through that moment. That moment of raw truth of reflection possibly and hopefully not of remorse of guilt loss of opportunity not becoming who we could have become. In that moment, it's only you standing before Hashem. Stripped of roles, breath of titles. It's just you and the version of you that no one else sees. The thoughts, the choices, the small victories, the quiet failures. It's the moment when Hashem puts his hand on your shoulder and says, "Talk to me. I want to hear your voice. Not your resume, not your family photos. I want you." And it's hard to hear, but it's not meant to break us. It's meant to wake us up. Asal say, as the pal is telling us, the left hand that pushes, but the right hand that pulls close. Hashem gives us this lonely truth, not to frighten us, but to guide us. And Hashem says, "You spent your life giving to others around your family, around the security net, that safety net. Now give something to me. Give me you." So as we keep loving our wives, our children, as we spoke about in the previous proim, we keep giving to our children, we hold them closer than ever, but we also prepare for that moment. We build ourselves quietly, daily, privately, so that when we stand alone, it won't be terrifying. It will be intimate. And the ones we lived for, although they won't be for us in that moment, but if we live right, they'll be the reason that we