365. Open Eyes
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After 33 centuries, all that’s needed has been done. The table is set, the feast of Moshiach is being served with the Ancient Wine, the Leviathan and the Wild Ox—and we are sitting at it.
All that’s left is to open our eyes and see.
[Adapter’s Note: These words I write, but I do not understand. But then, if I understood them, I suppose I would not need to be told to open my eyes.]
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Perhaps to see we need to open the third eye...
Shabbat Shalom,
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This evening is the Sabbath the 12th of August 2011. Now very most of us SEE Friday Night as egotistically US. The great week at work, the money we made, the money we are going to make even the women and men we are going to see.
Delight in our pleasures that we made. It is not that we can not see. It is that we Can Not Think.
For if we had the ability to think we would know that anything and everything have came from one person that gave it to us, and that is G-D. Of so much that he has given us, yet we have no Gratitude. God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
We can leave all behind except G-Ds words. One thing is not to see and another is to have No Gratitude. We have all the organs that a pig or a horse has, yet we have not even learned from them. For these animals have a sense of Gratitude yet we have failed to See Again and again from G=Ds creations. To SEE we must first learn to feel and sense. SEE what has been LOST!!!!
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I can't say I get it completely either, but I can say this: It's not such an easy thing to open your eyes from a long slumber. In fact, it may be the most difficult part of getting out of bed.
How do you open your eyes? How do you leave your dreamworld behind so you can enter into one much bigger than you could ever dream of?
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I don't get it. What's this trying to teach us? That Moshiach's here already?!
That we don't have to do anything to bring the Geula closer?!
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Ancient Wine, Wild Ox are easy to imagine. The Leviathan might be understood from ' Moby Dick " from Melville. He refers to the white whale they are chasing as The Leviathan. So i guess that this part of the meal is fish, with plenty to go around.
Wine, meat and fish sound like a meal to me. I am not saying that this is accurate because i am writing this with my eyes unopened. They will open when the time is appropriate. It sounds like a Kabbalistic/hidden meaning, and not at the literal level. But this literal level gives us a hint of what will be with the coming of Moshiach. Perhaps it hints at the paradise that our souls will experience at that time.
If nothing else, these words compel us to think ahead to better days.
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so this total destruction of civilization as we are witnessing before our eyes daily has been done intentionally to pave a way for an ulterior motive. as if HUMANS in Government know what is best for G-ds creation? When in history has THAT ever worked out?
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After 33 centuries not only open your eyes, but your ears, your nose, your mouth, and your hands to embrace G-D.
For more the reason after so many centuries we should at the very least realize we have our 5 senses that G-d gave us.
For more the reason We should have more strength after so many centuries. So now develop the Sixth, the seventh, the eight and so on and many more. Remember that everything must grow.
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I believe there is a feast table being served and we are sitting at it, so it is imperative of me to ask you what are the Ancient Wine, the Leviathan, and the Wild Ox that we are about to consume? Of course I should ask the Host but in the mean time I think you are one of His more informative guests... Excuse my excitement of the event... On top of that I am hungry, I am surely ready to eat...
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Agreed with u Rabbi, I don't get what this means either, and I've been hearing it for a long time. Why didn't the Rebbe ever specify what opening your eyes means?! It can't be do more mitzvot and bring more Jews to doing mitzvot, because he said buttons are polished, we're ready and there's nothing else to do. So why couldn't he specify what opening your eyes means, maybe that means believeing moshiach's here or something, but, I'm plainly confused.
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To me, it means, somehow, to relinquish our personal limitations, thereby allowing ourselves to be totally united with others. For some of us, there might be a lot to relinquish. Just let it all go and try to see only the good. And definitely trust Hashem every step of the way.
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