Kings Among Men

The second day of creation is unique since Hashem didn’t say “ki tov — it was good,” [as He did on all of the other days of creation]. Chazal explain that this is because the second day was marred by rejection, due to the division of the world’s water into two separate entities — waters above the firmament and waters consigned to the lower physical world. Why is this fair to the lower waters?

Comes the Eibeshter’s assurance that the waters underneath the firmament would have their time by supplying the nisuch hamayim in the Beis Hamikdash on Succos.

All good, right? Not! There’d be no Beis Hamikdash for another 30 centuries! That’s what you call equal status? And how does a “shpritz” of water once a year equal an eternal spiritual upgrade? Too little, too late. (Rav Yisrael Kleinman, Timely Messages)

Often it feels like I’ve raised two separate families. I’ve spent years raising my girls, cooking, baking, shopping, and enjoying them as an extension of me.