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Playing with Our Minds

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If He had made the world a complete and utter mystery, we would have no path to know Him. And if all would fit together like a neat and tidy grandfather clock, we would not know that there is anything more to know.

So He took His raw, unknowable Will and cloaked it in wisdom, and through that wisdom a world was formed. And in that world, we sentient beings are drawn to the wisdom—only to find ourselves engulfed within an unfathomable ocean of wonders.

Now it is within the mind’s grasp to know that no thought can grasp Him.

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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June 5, 2012
Utter Mystery
When we refer to grandfather clock is the "Measurements of Time" and Utter Mystery of Science thru time and space. The unknowable was known. The will of the mechanism became the wisdom of knowing. In other words, to seek when something is not there, when there is something there to seek. We learned to grasp his knowledge thru Peeking and Seeking with our Spirituality. In other words, We have to observe what and how G-d mind is thru Peeking and Seeking and within our heart.
G-d is one and his name is one, to observe and remember, One G-d always.
Hashem
Eugina G Herrera
New York, New York
May 29, 2012
Strong Will
I see "He" the "World" the "Mystery" I see "Him" Him is teaching us that what we can and can't grasp is our strong will that Him gave us all to grasp what we couldn't.
Eugina G Herrera
New York, New York
May 20, 2012
The Mind
Our minds seem to stray a lot. Unless you practice to focus on one thing or another our stray thought collectively become a sess pool that goes into segmental pond that can do no one any good. A person who practices not allowing stray thought to take over their mind is a person that brings every though into captivity
Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd
Vancouver, Canada
May 20, 2012
Not playing with our minds...
He is giving us a chance to learn His teachings. That's why he gave us the written and oral Torah, inspired the Kabbalah, and given His people Israel Koach and Chutzpah. G-d bless G-d! Baruch Hashem!
Justin Roth
Staten Island, NY
May 20, 2012
thankyou, with love and gratitude reflecting ~
AMEN and Praise G-d we were given freewill to find and feel those spiritual ocean waves wash over and through us so that we can know and feel all ways at home, in this, His world.
Michelle
UK
May 20, 2012
sure enough
I agree with your words. At the same time, a little while back Chabad.org printed a poem by a young poet, name like Newsome. He had this remarkable line about " grabbing Hashem by the lapels " . It struck me numb that he used imagery of Hashem in the same way as i ' see ' it. It is the same as how i understand prophet Micah- ' Walk humbly with G-d '. It fits me at the literal level.

I know that our mind cannot grasp Him, but can't our soul-hand ? Rhetorical question, permission unnecessary. As outrageous as this may sound, it works for me. After all, our soul is attached to Him and so our soul-hand can do the grabbing of a lapel when needed. It beats praying to Him into thin air. The graphics simplify what is otherwise a mind boggling abstraction.

Okay, time for me to say the nighttime Shema to Him, nearby, a tug on the lapels; and far away, Omnipresent.

Thank you for your Awesome words.
Anonymous
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May 26, 2009
HE is as His Word
I believe that the Word of G-d is the same as HE is, a Wonderful mystery that opens as HE allows when we are searching and in need of Divine direction. Sometimes the precious gem is for us alone and sometimes for a hurting souil who is not able, because of their pain to search for themselves.
David Calabretta
Whitefish, Mt.
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