Wedding Pains

Some friendly advice:

Are the Chassan or Kallah avoiding you? Please don’t take it personally. I have never known a couple to go from engagement and onward without both of them losing a few friends (at least temporarily). It has probably happened to you from one side of the dais, so now it’s time for the other.

How the State Makes Us Small

Stay away from welfare. It destroys your confidence. Chant the following idiom (from Bava Metzia 12b):

גדול וסמוך על שלחן אביו זהו קטן קטן ואינו סמוך על שלחן אביו זהו גדול