By a Bais Rivka High School Junior who was inspired by the spontaneous dancing that went on for hours in her school for the refuah of Naftoli Hertz ben Rochel on Monday.
Prayer tears at the heavens, but joy breaks all boundaries.
The news spread fast and the tehillim was split between each class. Hachlatos were made. But there is only so much that that can accomplish.
When all is said and done, when all tears are shed, all we still have left to do is smile. And dance. And sing.
So that is what we did. We grabbed hold of the girl next to us and formed a circle. Who she was didn’t matter. It was about who we were and what we were doing. And what we were doing is shaking the heavens and breaking boundaries.
“Der Rebbe hot geheisin freilach zein.” We are chassidim. We follow the Rebbe’s directive. We dance; we sing. We allow sweat to pour instead of tears. We allow simcha and positivity to rule our minds, our hearts, our souls.
I’m not a singer and I’m not a dancer, but I am a believer. And that’s why I danced. That’s why I sang. That is why we all did. For hours, on our own time, we Bais Rivka girls linked our arms to give support, to give love, to give joy.
We were taught and we believe that with our joy we can bring about a complete and speedy refuah for Naftoli Hertz ben Rochel and with our joy we can bring Moshiach. Like all the generations of Jews before us, we believe that joy breaks boundaries. That is why we danced.
so happy when i heard he was home!!!!!
its incrediable how one day we were sick with nerves and today a week later it seems like ages ago bec hes home with him family bh!
thank you everybody for all the daveninig etc.
He is on the way home!!!!!
After the amazing Shabbaton we were in a spiritual high we all tried to keep our commitments. This week when we heard the news we said extra tehillim and learned and learned in our own time. The dancing was in response to the igros. It wasn’t just the simcha but also the achdus that was poretz geder
simcha poretz geder works!!
incrediable
11th grade split the tehillim too:)
got no idea who he is though:)
bh that hes getting better!!
the achdus was incredible… most girls had no idea who they were saying tehillim for… one girl said lets split the tehilim and within 5 min the whole tehhilim was said between 30 girls!!! after saying the tehillim so many times and taking on so much learning and hachlatos,and so many farbrengens for a girl in our schools brother that most people didnt know… there was nothing left to do but be happy and have emunah!! and it worked!! within just a 2-3 hours we recieved good news and then more good news and now we hear that he is… Read more »
talent as such deserves to be mentioned. she was raised well!
ITS TOTALLY AMAZING AND INSPIRING THAT THIS WAS THEIR RESPONSE TO SOMETHING SO TRAGIC!!
no one was eating lunch everyone was dancing and singing and some girls like me joined in and we didnt know why we were dancing later we founf=d out that naftoli was getting better
simcha poretz geder
tracht gut vet zein gut is real, real real
Who is A junior in brhs encouraged everyone to be happy and dance. I think that is the epitome of what it means to believe. I am wowed by her unbelieveable emunah. It is beautiful to see.
wow!! this is so special!! what a lesson 4 all of us!
refuah shelaima naftali hertz ben rochel! who he is doesnt matter but that article just gave me goosebumps!
Its time to rebind all angles of reality, and our different points of view, with the joy of love and the love of G-D.
Ki Bisimcha tetzeihu uvishalom tuvalun heharrim vihagbaos yiftzichu lifnaychun rena vchol atzay hasadeh yimchau kaf!! may it be acomplete complete refua and it should continue getting better and better!!!!!!
Only *3* hours after they started dancing did he wake up. THIS IS SUCH A CLEAR MESSAGE!!!
Amazing writing and amazing school!
nice sweet and
It was amazing! BRHS is a school like no other!
being happy worked!!
My daughter came home extremely excited and told me the whole story. I felt like this is why I send my daughters to Bais Rivkah – the power of so many beautiful Chabad girls put together for good is unbelievable- let it bring more yeshuot to klal Yisrael.
the floors of the school were shaking!
instead of eating lunch we were dancing and dancing.
GO BRHS!!!!!
Somebody wrote to the REBBE asking a Bracha for
a refuah shleima for Naftali Hertz Ben Rochel and
placed the letter in a Book of Igros Kodesh (The
Rebbe’s Letters answering people’s questions).
They opened up to the place where their letter was
only to see the words “SIMCHA POIREITZ GEDER”
which means ” joy breaks all boundries.” So they
danced and danced. May all Tfillos of Klal Yisroel be
answered letovah velevrachah immediately!
and it was truly uplifting and inspiring
The author clearly states that the dancing was on there own time. (recess during secular studies and after school). The girls also did lots of extra learning and Tehilllim on their own time.
Please don’t look for a negative angle.
Theres no doubt in my mind that his refuah came about because of this!
What abt having him in mind in ur Lemud HaTorah that also breaks boundries. Especially learnin with Simcha & Shkida & Hasmada
Speedily.
yasher koach
Would it be out of place for me to suggest that possibly Naftoli Hertz’s future kallah was among those dancing?
🙂 Just a nice thought that came to mind
Ki Bisimcha tetzeihu uvishalom tuvalun heharrim vihagbaos yiftzichu lifnaychun rena vchol atzay hasadeh yimchau kaf!! may it be acomplete complete refua and it should continue getting better and better!!!!!!
BH Naftoli is improving. Keep it up!
He woke up from his coma
This is chilling. Very inspirational. Naftali Hertz should have a full refuah.
amazing and beautiful article!!!!!!!! may he have a refua shleima now and all cholei amo yisroel!!!
You have inspired me so much with your very well written, short and to the point article.
May ALL Cholei Yisroel have complete Refua Shlaimos and may our tefillos for Moshiach be answered.
Look at how much GOOD is going on and how much GOOD there truly is in this world.
WOW
This girl who wrote this is amazing she can be a huge inspiration to all those around her! i wish there were more girls like this…what a happy place this world would be….you wrote it very nicely!!! kol hakavod to you and all those who taught you this way…much better then all the other negative letters that are posted on here!!! well done…:):)
BH Naftoli is out of a coma
beautifully written too
Beautiful!!!
so inspiring