Given at “The Institute For Advanced Professional Training at Ohel.” In these times before Moshiach it is important to have listening friends to help our neshama (soul) complete its task. People are terribly lonely these days. Children are hearing a silent message that there is no hope for them to reap a portion in the world to come. Some troubled children despair; others figure they might as well live it up in this world. How can we help troubled children? What should we tell them? Each of us needs to carry two seemingly contradictory mottos: “I am dust and ashes,” and “because of me the world was created.” On the one hand we have to tell troubled children not to focus on themselves, but rather to focus on how they can help others. Survivors survived the concentration camps because they had a reason to live. In the concentration camp, anyone who stopped caring enough to pick out their lice was destined to imminent death. We have to seek out the small kindnesses Hashem sends us within a hardship. An amazing story of how Rav Weinberger’s father was able to keep his tefillin throughout his entire duration in the Holocaust. We have to seek out the small positive attributes within ourselves and within others. We compose a song for Hashem with our small positive attributes. We end of with a prayer from Rebbe Nosson, Rebbe Nachman’s disciple.