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Defining Your World
Discuss (2)We are not passive observers of this universe, but rather partners in its creation. We are the ones who assign each thing its meaning, who bring definition and resolution to an otherwise ambiguous world.
In fact, we are legal witnesses who determine a matter of life or death: For each thing we hold, each event that enters our life, our word declares whether it breathes with G‑dly life or simply idles itself into oblivion.
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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But, I don't understand what you write in the last line that you do not accept that this was G-D ordaining Joyce's death-if not He than who??
On the contrary, our only comfort that can be is that all comes from Him, the Essence of All Good- and that will ultimately be revealed to us with the coming of our righteous Moshiach- May it be NOW!!
Otherwise, it would be scary to think that we are living in a helter- skelter world at the mercy of random accidents and freaks of nature-don't you think?
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Joyce and her husband, a rabbi, were totally lovingly Torah involved in family, friends, and greater community Jewish spiritual life.
Joyce "assigned and brought meaning" to everything.
Joyce "defined her world" for life, and declared what "breathed with G*dly life."
We who are left bereft of her love, compassion, chesed and Torah mitzvot, have had NO say in Joyce breathing continued life into the love she would have continued to give to her young grandchildren, children, husband or communities.
Maybe I have been "witness" to Joyce's spiritual and loving life, but surely not one who "determines a matter of life or DEATH." Joyce did not choose death.
I am witness to this loss of life of a pure gentle good neshama. I do not accept that this was G*d ordaining Joyce's death.
In pain and sadness,
Northridge, CA, USA