Counting Time - Daily Dose of Wisdom

If there is any one thing over which we seem utterly helpless, it is the steady stream of time. We cannot create more of it, we cannot subtract from it. We cannot accelerate it, neither can we halt it, or even slow it down. We are carried along in its steady stream helplessly, ceaselessly and without respite.

We count the days and the years as we count our most precious possessions. But why? Can time be stolen, or can it generate more of itself, that it needs an accounting?

And yet, in truth, time beckons you to count its every moment. For if a moment passes and you have done nothing with that moment, it will never forgive you.

You, after all, are the only one who can give that moment of your life a meaning.

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 29, 2012

Countig Time

Why does the calendar start with the seventh month?

Anonymous

November 6, 2012

love it !

Time is an entity that can be raised in holiness, or at least it has that potential.

mordi

November 6, 2012

We can accelerate or slow time, and R. Schneerson knew of relativity theory, which proves this

When others said that the earth orbits the sun, Rebbe Schneerson said that "according to the theory of relativity", it was equally (or more) valid to say the earth was still and the sun moved. In one case, he questioned how a person could not know this (I am not sure whether he was mocking the person as ignorant, or was expressing doubt as to the person's honesty.)

He was not just aware of relativity; he took the position that it was valid and something that every well-educated person should know. And, unlike most humans, he claimed to have some level of understanding of it.

According to relativity theory, time can be slowed by moving quickly. This has been confirmed by placing very precise clocks on airplanes.

It would seem that Rabbi Schneerson used relativity theory when it supported his position and ignored it when he wanted to make a point that it contradicted.

Anonymous
Camarillo, CA, USA

November 5, 2012

Moshiach is coming now.

One thing that scares me regarding time is that my poor heart has to go on and on along the time. The moment it stops time is over. Oh! what a terrible thing. I delight listening Fiddler on the Roof / Sunrise Sunset but more serious is the Rebbe's radical idea -as Rabbi Manis Friedman puts it in Cold Soup- that Moshiach is coming now. Rabbi Friedman wrote "so let Moshiach come now and catch us here with our cold soup because we have nothing to be ashamed of."

Jorge
Qro./MEXICO

November 5, 2012

Generate more of itself

Yes! Everything created has the ability to reproduce after its own kind.. One gives G-d time, and He multiples it and gives it back.

Dwight D. Williams
Garland TX