Every hundred years or so, a person comes along and changes the way we look at ourselves and our world. But there is something that is rarer still -- someone who will tell us something that we already know
I've read about all these truths... one author would write about one or two of them... another (and yet another) would do the same. But now, beginning with "And these are the things he taught:" I have all these truths together, in a list format.
Do you know what I kept repeating to myself, over and over after having read this? - ("Oh my G-d, thank You, thank You..." ).
Do you have any idea how many !!!!!!!!!!!!!!s I wanted to add after my words "in a list format " ?
Do you have any idea what a treasure this is, these truths in such a format?
I want to tell you a thousand thank you's, but I think one heartfelt one should do - and believe me, this one can't possibly be more heartfelt than it is.
Last, the writing in itself is beautiful.
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The Baal Shem Tov saw that even evil longs to be one again. Maybe, if we listen carefully, we would hear the husks and shells saying, "we are the things that hold the material world together, but inside we hold light. Yet you struggle with the shell." Moses, peace with him, struck the shell of the rock, when G-d told him to address that which the rock contained within.
One day we will understand that, as Rabbi Akiba said, "the world is based on the Spirit and Water, for they were there from the beginning. 'the Spirit of the L-rd hovered over the Face of the Water', and then G-d said, "Let there be Light."
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Thank you for these wonderful words. I am posting them near my desk right now so I won't forget them. G-d bless.
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thank you for the story/ies. i really enjoyed reading them.
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It is already said by G-d;
"Why are you annoyed, and why has your countenance fallen?. Surely, if you improve yourself, you will be forgiven. But if you do not improve yourself, sin rest at the door. Its desire is toward you, yet yo can conquer it."
In one word the revolution is to be rigtheous as well as to discover this righteouness, by our teachers, inside us.
Nice. It teach us; Read your soul.
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the short passage summarizing the teachings of this great Rebbe simply makes life so easy and meaningful.
its the entire philosophy of life
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This article really gets to the holy essence of reality. Highly inspirational!
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thank you for putting these ideas so concisely and for reminding us of the deepest home truths taught by the Baal Shem Tov. It is so true that the truth that resonates with the truth of our soul is what we need to reconnect with in this maze of a world that we live in.
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