The Tragedy of Not Accepting All Your Children..... by DIN

The latest tragedy of the poor young Satmar girl taking her own life got me thinking.

I am not suggesting in any way that I know the details, I don't, I know what I read in the various Israeli Hebrew papers .and I heard the interview that she gave to channel 12..and of course there is  a lot more to this story that we will never ever know...

There isn't a week that goes by where another Jewish child or teenager is so despondent, so miserable, that they don't see another way out but to take their very own lives....

These children will never be parents, they will never be grandparents... they will no longer contribute to society....

and will always be the cause of broken hearts to their families.....

Parents will never forget that awful tragic day that their own flesh and blood was torn from them....

As we approach Purim a day of celebration I found an interesting and fascinating "Akeidas Yitzchok"... that I feel is relevant to our times....and would like to share it with you .

The very last verse of the megillah reads :

כי  מרדכי היהודי משנה למלך אחשורוש וגדול ליהודים ורצוי לרוב אחיו דרש טוב לעמו ודבר שלום לכל- זרעו

"For Mordechai the Jew was viceroy to King Ahasuerus, he was a great man among the Jews, and found favor with the multitude of his brethren; he sought the good of his people; and spoke peace for the welfare of all his seed (children)"

Rashi says ... that the pasuk praises Mordechai's lifetime achievements ...

and the ones mentioned last, are his greatest...

in other words, his being appointed viceroy was his least accomplishment....

while his "speaking in peace with his children" was his finest.

Question:

Can it be possible that the last accolade of Mordechai that he spoke in peace with his children" was a greater achievement than being viceroy?

Is this pasuk trying  to say that the fact that  Mordechai "was a great man among the Jews" a tzaddik, was not his best accomplishment?

Answers the "Akeidas Yitzchok" 

that yes, a Jew becoming a viceroy in Persia was in fact a great accomplishment, 

and yes, the fact that "he was great amongst the Jews" a tzaddik, was even a greater achievement..

a greater accomplishment than being a"great man" was the fact that almost all Jews accepted him as their leader, 

and a even greater achievement of being accepted by his fellow Jews was the fact that he only wanted the best for the Jewish people...

But you know what was his finest and probably the most difficult task?

It was speaking with all his children in peace!

It could be that not all his children followed in his ways ... and it could even be that he had children that were rebellious.... 

could be he had a child that refused to dress in a shtrimal and vaaseh zokin...that he chose to wear a colored shirt on Shabbos...

Yet Mordechai chose to speak  ודבר שלום לכל- זרעו

to all his children equally in peace!

And that my friends is the most difficult thing to do ......
and if one can achieve that, he has achieved the very best and finest accomplishment in life!

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