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Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
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Being Not That

Be simple.

In whatever you do,
in whatever form you take,
in whatever you decide you are,

 . . . retain memory that you are not that.

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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: June 23, 2011
bieng simple
difficult to be some one else and forget your true self....for selfhood is infinite process of multiplicities
Posted By sharif abdo, agadir, morocco

Posted: June 21, 2011
Being Not That
I read this one this morning before work but absolutely could not get it. Thank you for your answer on The Convenient Mind. But I start feeling I do not get the hold of your teaching very well.
Posted By Anonymous, Forest Hills, NY/USA

Posted: June 21, 2011
being simple
that's so deep that does not depend on how observant one might be, on who is your tsadik, on this or that. That's everlasting lesson.
Posted By shlomo

Posted: June 21, 2011
Being Not That
Does not make sense.
Posted By Monty Pogoda, Efrat, Israel

Posted: Aug 20, 2008
Retain Memory..
Thank you so much for your explanation of "retain memory, that is not you" I feel suddenly "liberated" You have no idea, during the course of the day I have to be many things to many people. But what I really would like is to be what I am inside "ALL THE TIME" without measure. Thank you again, Rabbi.
Posted By Anonymous, Owasso, OK

Posted: Aug 20, 2008
Being That...For Paula
Dear Anonymous,
Thank you, but I am very young. I have been blessed with 5 grandchildren, ages range from 12-2. I will crawl about with the young ones, as with the older ones we often have books that we read together and then share comments. This does not make one young, although it helps.

Being young is the age of my heart. I was from the age of approximately 40-53, then life was young again. I am very far from stagnation/petrification. In all honesty I am about 180 degrees from the stagnation time of my life. May it never come.

Be well,
Posted By Paula Bonnie Golladay, Falls Church, VA

Posted: Aug 10, 2008
For Paula
Perhaps you need to become young again. Perhaps deciding you are "that" is the stagnation/petrification of old age.
Posted By Anonymous

Posted: Aug 9, 2008
Being Not That
For almost all of my life I wanted "To Be That". I would vision all forms of what I was, truly I was playing the game of "if only" in my mind.

Now at the age of 59 finally I have realized that I am that. Meaning I am what I have been created to be.

Once this was firmly planted into my heart it does not matter that I am "not that"
Posted By Paula Bonnie Golladay, Falls Church, VA

Posted: Aug 5, 2008
Being not that
What is that?
Posted By Joanne Ronay, Brandon Brandon, FL USA

Posted: Aug 5, 2008
Re: retain memory...
Let's say you are forced into a position where you need to be strict with your kids. Retain memory that this is not you.

You need to take a job as a secretary. Retain memory that this is not you.

You need to fight with the world and eek out a living. This is not you.

Who are you? A G_dly being of light.
Posted By Tzvi Freeman, Thornhill, Canada



 


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