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Darkness With Hope


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

There are dark jewels in this world that can be salvaged, purified and taken as precious bounty for the good.

And there is darkness itself, the essential absence of light, that must only wait its time to expire.

How can we tell between them?

If the darkness fights back, there is hope.

It means there is something there worth fighting for.
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Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson   More articles...  |   RSS Listing of Newest Articles by this Author

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 8, 2011
The precipice of a Vacuum
Right now the asistant living Facility situation that I am living in is getting wise to the lecturing I do to a bunch of invisible individuals in my room which helps my writing , drawing and even helps my painting when I do it because it airs out the past and what has happened to me-but they are not in the same place with it as I am and want to hospitalize me which means an oversaturalization of drugs and 50% less of my glorious glorious work-including Judaism and the comments and reading the great articles which has brought me closer to G-d and closer to my Art actually-but each day I find they don't drag me in quite yet so in my darkness this darkness does in fact fight back to give me more each time there is a wrestling match with it.
Posted By Miss Judith Witten, Brockton, Ma/USA

Posted: Dec 7, 2010
Read Isaiah 9 : 2 & 6
About people walking in darkness with no idea how to embrace the Light and find hope, even when they see the light they runaway, reject and ignore light with hope, for their own comforts sakes.
Posted By mark alcock, Dbn, SA

Posted: Dec 6, 2010
Shkoyiach!
Powerful!

When he says:

"If the darkness fights back, there is hope. It means there is something there worth fighting for."

He is referring to our yetzer hara (evil inclination)...his job is to make us lose our focus... His focus however is on the most important things...the strongest urges are usually the ones we have to work on, if the yetzer is giving it importance...where ever there is holiness is were his focus lies...
Posted By Malka, Montreal, QC

Posted: Dec 6, 2010
darkness fighting
Eternal 'light' is always worth fighting for.
Posted By gigi, amarillo, tx

Posted: Dec 6, 2010
How true
Thank you for sharing!
Posted By cecilia , NYC

Posted: Dec 6, 2010
Darkness with Hope
As cosmology defines the ultimate darkness to be a black hole, which definately fights back, what do the philosophers consider the ultimate light by comparison? As the iniverserve was considered to explode from a minute entity and is ever growing then the light is also ever glowing in its presence.
Posted By joseph. Leeds, UK, Leeds, UK

Posted: Dec 6, 2010
Darkness is weakness and can't fight back !
Light exposes darkness, so darkness becomes helpless, with no defenses, only manifesting absolute guilt for hiding the silent & concealed truth.
Posted By mark alcock, Ethekwini, ZA

Posted: Jan 7, 2009
darkness exists only because it is necessary to single out those worthy of a place known as heaven, this is all by design, (hard to imagine,) those who seek the ways of darkness (fight against themselves and topple over one another as well as those who they prey upon that are pushed toward the light, when ever darkness fights, it fights with an unrelenting vengence even though it is with greater fault it seeks to win at any cost, when darkness seems to resist or appears hesitant, or even reluctant, it is merely a lost sheep unsure of what to believe or what direction to go and usually sides with its self, darkness is stubborn and unrelenting and it seeks to impose its corrupt confusing ways upon others (though its lost,) by its very corrupt nature it seeks to convince the world it is just and it the light, but it is light that never forces its ways upon anyone, it welcomes only those who seeks it with the 'freewill' they have been given, it sets out its instructions but twists no arms
Posted By henk, Buffalo, NY

Posted: Jan 6, 2009
Darkness with hope.
"If the darkness fights back, there is hope.

It means there is something there worth fighting for."

NOT NECESSARILY.
Posted By Paul Palnik, Columbus, Ohio

Posted: Jan 6, 2009
Darkness with Hope
As I read this, I thought about some of my acquaintanceswho argue with me regarding Orthodox Judaism. It is clear to me that if the darkness that fights back is within a fellow Jew, that means that the Pintle Yid within him/her is fighting to emerge.
Posted By Anonymous



 


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