Inner Connections Bursts-7 Weeks of Consulation

I know a woman, well actually I know not just one, but quite a few who are waiting. These women are specifically waiting for the birth of their babies. They are women who, according to their calculations or to the date on a doctor’s calendar are quite “overdue”.

Now I tell them, “You are not early, not late. We say b’shaah tova-at the right time. Each one has its time, its mazel. Wait, wait, wait.”

But come on, I’m not in their shoes and it’s so hard to wait.

Yes, it’s not easy to be at the end of a pregnancy. To feel hot, swollen, tired, heavy. These women go to sleep each night thinking, “Maybe tonight I’ll go into labor?” It might even start and then they go to sleep and they wake up and they call me and tell me, “I’m still pregnant! I’m not in labor.”

Until of course that day or that night when they are.

בְּטֶ֥רֶם תָּחִ֖יל יָלָ֑דָה בְּטֶ֨רֶם יָב֥וֹא חֵ֛בֶל לָ֖הּ וְהִמְלִ֥יטָה זָכָֽר

Before she labored, she was delivered; Before her pangs came, she bore a son (Isaiah 66:7).

And so during these seven weeks between Tisha b’Av and Rosh Hashanna when each week we read in the haftorah words of consolation you must know that these words are talking to you.

You?

Yes, each woman. After all, who isn’t waiting? Waiting for something. Something to come. Whatever it is you that are waiting for read these words. Say them out loud.

It will come.

B’shaah tova. At the right time.

Say the words. Believe that it’ll come.

בְּטֶ֥רֶם תָּחִ֖יל יָלָ֑דָה בְּטֶ֨רֶם יָב֥וֹא חֵ֛בֶל לָ֖הּ וְהִמְלִ֥יטָה זָכָֽר

Before she labored, she was delivered; Before her pangs came, she bore a son (Isaiah 66:7).

(P.S. From writing this last night to being able to send it....One of the women gave birth this morning b"H to a healthy boy!)

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