Q&A: With God's Help
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With God's Help
Question
Hello and blessings.
I wanted to ask… what is the meaning of the "With God's Help" that appears at the top of every column if the Rabbi does not believe that help from Heaven will arrive?
Answer
I've already been asked this. First of all, it's simply a habit. If you like, you can see it as giving thanks to the Holy One, blessed be He, for giving us the power to act and to write (through our creation and the creation of the world), exactly as I wrote about expressions of thanks in prayer. It's like a logo that appears above a notice for a conference, listing the parties who helped and organized the conference.
Just yesterday I had an employee edit an index, and he added "With God's Help" at the beginning. Then, in the automatic alphabetical sorting, the "With God's Help" got stuck there among the entries under the letter B. I wrote to him: sometimes you write "With God's Help," and for some reason instead of help, it does the opposite…