“My father said ‘A chassid creates an environment. If he does not, he had better check his own baggage carefully, to see whether his own affairs are in order. The very fact that he fails to create an environment should make him as broken as a splinter. He must demand of himself: What am I doing in this world?’”  ~ Compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, from his father, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory.

My friend, R’ Menachem Mendel Rafael (Mark) Weisman explains “One is supposed to create the environment, not wonder why it’s a bad environment.  We need to try and make a place for Hashem, connecting the world above with the world below.”