The "Oilam" tells the following story:
There were once two guys walking in the forest and one of them was shaking with fear because of the possibility that he might be attacked by dogs and eaten alive. His friend told him not to worry. There is a sgula that has been proven to be effective that wards off dogs. One says the pasuk written about yetzias mitzrain "ולכל בני ישראל לא יחרץ כלב לשונו" - "No dog barked at the Jews" and the dogs will not touch him.
His fears were realized when a HUGE beast of a dog attacked him. With great distress he tried to escape. His friend, who was standing in the distance, called out "Why don't you say the pasuk?"
He cried back "The dog won't let me."
When one gets married, he [and she] often enters the marriage with a host of poor character traits. Anger, self-absorbtion, laziness, insensitivity etc. etc. He reads marriage books and even listens to shiurim on the ideal marriage, but when push comes to shove the "dog" inside of him won't let him practice what he learns.
The eitza is to buy a Sichas Mussar of Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz and work hard on his middos so that the "dog" is exorcised from his spirit.
ספר האיש מקדש עמ' תמד
There were once two guys walking in the forest and one of them was shaking with fear because of the possibility that he might be attacked by dogs and eaten alive. His friend told him not to worry. There is a sgula that has been proven to be effective that wards off dogs. One says the pasuk written about yetzias mitzrain "ולכל בני ישראל לא יחרץ כלב לשונו" - "No dog barked at the Jews" and the dogs will not touch him.
His fears were realized when a HUGE beast of a dog attacked him. With great distress he tried to escape. His friend, who was standing in the distance, called out "Why don't you say the pasuk?"
He cried back "The dog won't let me."
When one gets married, he [and she] often enters the marriage with a host of poor character traits. Anger, self-absorbtion, laziness, insensitivity etc. etc. He reads marriage books and even listens to shiurim on the ideal marriage, but when push comes to shove the "dog" inside of him won't let him practice what he learns.
The eitza is to buy a Sichas Mussar of Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz and work hard on his middos so that the "dog" is exorcised from his spirit.
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