THE EXPRESSION IS, “You only get one shot at a first impression,” and in life, a first impression can mean everything.

IT ALL COMES down to mentality. I look at someone in wonderment and ask, “How can they do that?”

Who knows how many Germans that Hitler, ysv”z, sent to their deaths in the name of his ego? The Nazis could have surrendered earlier, and might have, had Heir Hitler not insisted on pretending that there was still hope for his Third Reich…just to keep his own ego inflated.

WHEN ADAR COMES in, increase your joy, or at least that is what the Gemora tells us we should do. But as we all know, you can’t command an emotion.

THIS SHABBOS IS Parashas Shekalim (yes, already), because next Tuesday and Wednesday will be Rosh Chodesh Adar, b”H, making this also Shabbos Mevarchin.