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Finding an Angel


Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

A mentor, our sages tell us, must be like an angel. That's a problem. Having never seen an angel, you will always be in doubt: Perhaps the mentor you have chosen is not like an angel. How can you ever rely on your mentor while so unsure of his or her qualifications?

So we will clarify: The mentor must be a human angel.

An angel, because just as an angel has no body, no hatred, no jealousy and is not in competition with you, so the mentor must remain objective and uninfluenced by any personal benefit from the advice.

And yet a human being: With compassion, with a conscience, and with a passion for kind deeds.
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From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

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Posted: Feb 21, 2012
Angel found
The same angel that leads us to seek Hashem`s face.Standing before us every time we engage in Torah study and share in the light of observance . Knowledge wisdom and understanding passing into our G-dly souls and over coming the animal soul . Manifesting into kindness and pure compassion for those in this world, and those that love Hashem.
Posted By Lamont Myers, hallandale, Fl.

Posted: Apr 11, 2010
My mentor is a human angel! He is Tzvi Freeman!
Thank you, Angel!
Posted By Hannah, Brazil, BH

Posted: Oct 16, 2009
Finding an Angel
I thought this was a very good article. As for myself I try to have the angelic characteristics for all my family, friends and aquaintances. The older I get the more I try to fulfill the qualities I admire. Blessings all.
Posted By jane, Mission, BC CANADA

Posted: Oct 16, 2009
Finding an Angel
Interesting thought. From what i have learned, the word angel simply denotes "servant of the Most High". It is my understanding that an angel can be whatever is elicited for the service of G-d. Thus a butterfly could be a form of angel, seeing that it accomplishes the will of the LORD.
Posted By Erric Lolo

Posted: Oct 16, 2009
Angels, Human Beings and Compassion
Thank you, Rabbi Freeman, for the kind (and kindling) sound, for song and melody sung by your written words of today.
Posted By Silvana Origlia, Vienna, Austria

Posted: Oct 16, 2009
Finding an Angel
Rabbi Freeman......where do I go and who do I speak with.
You are so right.
Posted By Sam, castro valley, ca

Posted: Oct 16, 2009
this is a very hard criteria
i often wish it were easy to find one. when you're at a certain level of understanding, it is very hard to find someone like that.

It's very hard to find someone who can answer the questions I ask. I come here because I feel that the writers here are my mentors. But in truth, you don't know me and I don't know you.

I feel a mentor must know his student and a student must be able to watch his mentor's face and listen to his voice and meet his gaze and understand him even if he doesn't talk.

Sometimes, Torah study is very isolating especially the Chassidic texts, not for anything other than very few people want to understand it deeply and very few people can teach it.

I wish to find a mentor like this and follow this mentor around and acquire his compassion first-hand. But where? Where for someone like me, other than words in this site?
Posted By Cecilia, new york



 


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