Worries, Worries, Worries!

What is with Israel today?  So much of our discourse is based on our worries.  Not our concerns, but our Worries.  We worry about how we observe every event.  We worry about how we are going to say our prayers in the synagogue (note that there are many of the young jews who needlessly worry to the exact location of their tefillin to an extent that it interrupts their concentration.  Was it a hair off center etc.).
Israel worries today.
I must say that the impetus for writing this entry in the blog is two fold today.
One I mentioned online today that I did not really think that our Creator wanted us to be all "electric free" for every shabbas for our entire lives.  I wrote it on a forum on Vos Iz Neias and more than a few commented that I must pray for forgiveness this Yom Kippur or that I was clearly not a true "Ba'al Tschuvah". (one who makes return to our Laws). 
So I thought tonight, I am not going to serve their worries.  I am not going to do something just to appease the worried minds of the rest of our nation.

One particular conversation I had with myself was about the idea of looking at the "rebbe"  Rabbi Schneerson's photograph before you say the shema when you go to bed.  It was reported on a jewish blog forum this year that the practice of the young chabadniks today is to look at a photo of the esteemed rabbi before they go to bed at night when they are saying the shema.  Not only does this particular practice have a flavor of idolatry and image worship, but I must say that to me, it strikes me as a convention used because they are truly afraid that they might "forget" their rebbe.  So look at him when you say the shema at the end of your day before you sleep. 
Another Worry.
I must say this, if you are worried that you are not going to think of someone you consider your greatest leader in the world for the rest of your life, perhaps he just did not have the true jurisprudence that our Creator afforded him in life to be our true leader and our true sage.  I suggest that if you truly remember someone, it is in your mind and not just on your bookcase.  I think that if you like your rabbi so much you want a photograph, that is fine.  But to think of that rabbi when you are supposed to commit yourself to your Creator by saying the shema, you are completely off the pathway of the righteous and true servant of our Creator. 
So there it is.
Israel today worries.
And it is mostly among the ultra orthodox and ChaBaD like aligned Jews today.
Not to say that worrying is horrible.  It actually is though.
So I must say this.  When I get a worry, I hear a voice in my mind that says "don't worry".  I do that and therefore do not act on this "worry". 
Believe it or not, I think that voice in my mind is Torah and that is how we strengthen our souls.
Photographs are not the currency for gevurah in my beliefs.  Just a memoir or a memory.