Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
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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November 1, 2012
Do you feel bad seeing the wicked prosper?
There are times when the wicked prosper. In Tehillim we read not to envy that prosperity because the Lord is watching all of us on and we have to have faith that evildoers will get their demise.
Jorge Qro./MEXICO
November 1, 2012
Let the Light repair the faulty Connections
Each soul has 613 connectionso that enable his soul to form a bond of mutual love and giving, (the Creator's quality), with the all the other soul's qualities. These connections were broken when the One Soul shattered. They are now the 'impure 613 desires to receive for the self' within each person.
One needs to raise the special prayer MAN to request correction, when the Light reveals through sensations of despair our lowliness compared to the Creator. One becomes filled with 'more Light', his qualities resemble the Creator ...until all the fixed connections will reveal that everyone is connected within you. The Soul is 'awakened'.
When one is able to exit his ego - cross the Machsom (or his barrier of self-love) to enter the Spiritual levels, he is guided by the Creator to do spiritual work.
It was from this exalted place that the Rebbe imparted the wisdom of the Light to us. The external evil is only the consequence or dressing of our faulty connections.
Brenda Toronto, Canada
August 12, 2010
I love this teaching
It has stayed with me since I first read it, and has helped to guide my actions since that moment.
Thank you, from a grateful gentile.
Gayle Birmingham, AL
June 14, 2010
But I feel compelled
There is a constant stream of anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic attacks, both physical and stories in the press. I feel compelled to take these head on and to draw as many others into this good fight as possible. We are under attack like never before.
Marc Louis Fredericton, Canada
June 13, 2010
fighting evil
The evil that we must now fight is Big Oil and the desires that enable it to profit egregiously from the distribution of a necessity of life. The same thinking is true for any industry that profits egregiously from the production and the bringing to market of any necessity of life, for the apportionment of land and its wealth is to be done not only meritoriously, by size and accomplishment, but equitably, by lot, or birthright. We have to figure out how to do this successfully if we are to survive as a species.
Michael Davis New York, NY
October 1, 2007
Our job is to bring in more light
Dear Anonymous from Mexico City.
I loved your comment very much. It gives me hope, or better, it strengthens it.. And it made me happy. Thank you for writing your comment!!! Shalom to you too!
Anonymous Passau, Germany
October 1, 2007
I am not Jew but I believed in God...
I believed that you can bring light to each person in this World no matter what. My Jew friends, they have brought light in my life, and now I can bring light too. Believe me, God will not punish you, if you bring light to other people or place. I think G-d will be happy. Go take your light and transform the darkness that it may also shine! Shalom.
Anonymous Mexico City, Mexico chabad.edu
May 13, 2007
Can I bring in more light at every place?
I live totally among Non Jews (Catholics). Can I bring in more light in every place I am? Everybody knows now, that I am a Jew. My son even says it openly now. Deep indside I feel guilty living here and not in a place amongst Jews. It turns out that I have to stay here for the next three years. I still have in my ears: "... and your footsteps were guided to reach that place. And you are here. Now." Can it be that this is "my place" G-dwanted me to be? I have no difficulties to talk about my Jewishness (I can do it better than the average Jew, as I am used to Christian thinking. ) I do not understand it, but might it be possible, that a Jew can fulfill his *mission in life" at every place in the world?
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Qro./MEXICO
One needs to raise the special prayer MAN to request correction, when the Light reveals through sensations of despair our lowliness compared to the Creator. One becomes filled with 'more Light', his qualities resemble the Creator ...until all the fixed connections will reveal that everyone is connected within you. The Soul is 'awakened'.
When one is able to exit his ego - cross the Machsom (or his barrier of self-love) to enter the Spiritual levels, he is guided by the Creator to do spiritual work.
It was from this exalted place that the Rebbe imparted the wisdom of the Light to us. The external evil is only the consequence or dressing of our faulty connections.
Toronto, Canada
Thank you, from a grateful gentile.
Birmingham, AL
We are under attack like never before.
Fredericton, Canada
New York, NY
I loved your comment very much. It gives me hope, or better, it strengthens it..
And it made me happy.
Thank you for writing your comment!!!
Shalom to you too!
Passau, Germany
My Jew friends, they have brought light in my life, and now I can bring light too.
Believe me, God will not punish you, if you bring light to other people or place. I think G-d will be happy.
Go take your light and transform the darkness that it may also shine!
Shalom.
Mexico City, Mexico
chabad.edu
Can I bring in more light in every place I am?
Everybody knows now, that I am a Jew.
My son even says it openly now.
Deep indside I feel guilty living here and not in a place amongst Jews. It turns out that I have to stay here for the next three years.
I still have in my ears: "... and your footsteps were guided to reach that place. And you are here. Now." Can it be that this is "my place" G-dwanted me to be?
I have no difficulties to talk about my Jewishness (I can do it better than the average Jew, as I am used to Christian thinking. ) I do not understand it, but might it be possible, that a Jew can fulfill his *mission in life" at every place in the world?
Passau, Germany