Life in Words - Daily Dose of Wisdom

Plants live in a world of earth, water, air and sunshine. Animals live in a world of the body and its senses. Human beings live within a world of their own words.

The sages called us “the speaking being,” saying that our soul is filled with words. When our words leave us, our very being goes out within them. We conquer with them. We declare our mastery over Creation with them. Our words tell us that we exist.

For us, nothing truly exists until we find a word for it. All our thoughts of every object and every event are thoughts of words. Our world is a world not of sensations and stimuli, but of words.

Build your world with precious words. Fill your days with words that live and give life.

Memorize words of Torah and of the sages. Have them ready for any break in your day. Wherever you go, provide that place an atmosphere of those powerful words.

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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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September 21, 2011

Life in Words

Such a good thought. Thanks!

Ben
Austin

September 21, 2011

...but learn to listen,

Anonymous
portsmouth, ohio

September 21, 2011

'..not of sensations and stimuli, but of words'??

With all due respect, I have a serious problem with this formulation. It also seems to stand in stark contradiction to the title 'Life in Words'.

Is it not so that the words are one of several other conduits for transmitting our own sensations/stimuli and for eliciting/triggering sensations/stimuli in our fellow beings?

If we create our own reality with the power of our words, can this reality have life without senses and stimuli? Is life itself not about senses and stimuli, whether emotional, mental or spiritual in their essence?

Was the Divine act of creation a mere word or a vessel for the Divine Desire for creation?

zeynep
ist

September 21, 2011

I want to pronounce five words now:

Thank you for the words.

Carmen

February 22, 2009

words

sorry about your father Melissa.
yes but when one can not use words there are other senses like looking, feeling, listening, touching etc etc.

Thanks for this daily wisdom Rabbi

kameo

February 20, 2009

words and existence

Although I deeply respect the power of words, how can we reconcile the idea that "nothing truly exists until we find a word for it" with those who are struck with aphasia, a loss of language, such as my father has been?

Melissa Prager