The World at Your Feet

Dear Honourable Rabbi Freeman:

This is such a Beautiful Idea! You have such delicacy and refinement of soul!!!!

Thank you so much for sharing your inner being!!!!!

Agreed, Cecilia. I was challenging Mr. Freeman with the conflicting ideas he posts in the Daily Dose titled "Miraculous Failure." If you have read that post, then you may see it conflicts with "The World at Your Feet." One suggests G-d does not give out an "open miracle" as Mr. Freeman terms it, which seems to imply miracles are hard to come by, and the other post suggests that the intention in striving for the Truth through Torah causes miracles to simply happen, as it supposedly did with the sages. I discern an inconsistency.

The condition of a miracle is that it arrives in difficult and almost impossible circumstances.
The path to G-d (as I understand it) is one of constant difficult choices.You make the impossible choice thinking a big sacrifice has to be made, and like Abraham, in the end, you do not have to make it, because a ram is stuck in the bushes and you are able to do what G-d asks of you. You do not have to be a sage to understand this. Miracles are not rewards, they are relief from the impossibility of being human attempting to do a divine task.

but in the previous daily dose you state that G-d doesn't just give out "open miracles" as you term them; that they aren't so easy to come by. That even G-d has to bow to the cosmic rules G-d put into place to maintain order. G-d follows nature's forces which G-d created. Hence, wouldn't being rewarded for yearning so hard for Truth be an "open miracle"? I don't think life is ever that easy. even for the sages.

Dear Rabbi,

Having moved to New York recently, I cannot help but feel the desperation in the air. It is an infectious kind of desperation and one that will convince you if you do not become mindful that it is an illusion.

Studying the Torah taught me that desperation is a stirring of the spirit that knows no place to turn. It seeks movement away from something and not towards the soul. When the inward explodes outward into full expression, the truth becomes expressed in daily life and daily life becomes one miracle after another.

I sometimes feel that the words in Daily Dose are my miracles. Like markers in my journey inward into its outward expression, the words that you send me tells me, yes! The Torah is alive in me.

G-d Bless You for you have found your void and chose to fill it with G-d's light, and so you are able to help people like me in the outskirts to find ours too.

Dear Rabbi Freeman,
I am far from being one of the sages, but G-d’s love to us apparently is so great, that He gives the same presents to simple people like me. Every time I finish prayers or reading Torah or Psalms I press the book on my forehead, asking G-d to fill me with His Holy words, so that I can be a lamp, which brings light to the others around me. And I realize that miracles happen. G-d hears every prayer, although He decides how they are answered.
It is wonderful to be Jewish, to be one of His "only" and "most loved children". Blessed be He!
I am not sure if this should be printed...
All the best,