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Mixtures


Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

Once we ate from the tree of knowing good with evil, our world became a place of compounds and mixtures. You will not find beauty without ugliness, joy without sorrow, pleasure without pain. You cannot invent a thing that will provide benefit without threat of harm, or a man on this earth who does only good without fault.

Wherever you will find one form of good, you will find another sort of evil. And where that evil does not lie, another will take its place. Rare it is, so rare, to find pure and simple goodness in a single being.

Therefore, do not reject any thing for the harm it may render, nor despise any man for the ugliness within him. Rather, use each thing towards the purpose G-d conceived it for, and learn from each man all he has to offer.
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Posted: July 14, 2009
What if?
What if a person believes they have not caused harm. Yet they leave a path of hurt and emotional harm behind them, wherever they go?
Posted By Chava, Asheville, NC

Posted: July 14, 2009
Re:how delightful is your train of thought !
G-d teaches us to have many good character traits- He is, after all, G-d! We learn these from Him throughout the teachings of Torah. But G-d sometimes also sends people as messengers. Yes, man is imperfect, but there are still many positive things we can learn from him -- love, kindness, humility, etc. As the Ba'al Shem Tov says, every single thing that a person sees or hears is an instruction to him in his service of G-d. So seeing a person with a good trait can be seen as a reminder, from G-d, that we ourselves should strive to be the same.
Posted By Sarah

Posted: July 14, 2009
So true and yet us humans wouldn't have it any other way; we just love to have that freedom of choosing, and as much as ugliness and evil is so painfully part of it, this is what we are but we can fix it...
Posted By Anonymous, woodland Hills, CA

Posted: July 14, 2009
mixtures
This is so true. True of myself. True of someone in my work environment.
The last phrase/clause so absolutely true and so very very wise.

This will not apply to a Tzadik, right?

Thank You,
Posted By ingride lewis, kfar saba, israel

Posted: July 14, 2009
how delightful is your train of thought !
Let me agree and let me agree to disagree, only in the quest of perfecting your profound insight.
You end by saying: "and learn from each man all he has to offer." We learn from infallible G-d in Torah about G-d and His Creation, including sinful man. We learn little except self-indulgence from fallible and imperfect man, except from his daily & often repetitive mistakes. Dare you agree and expound / comment more on G-d and less on His fallen man??
Posted By mark alcock, Durban, SA

Posted: Oct 18, 2006
Just for a moment though, it is a flash of what still lives with us, we can experience Eden once more. Vibrating, living spirit. Eternal Light right there with you the entire time.
No matter the darkness, no matter the pain, nothing could compare to just one glimpse of eternal Light. It conquers and restores.
Posted By P. Huff, Alhambra, Ca.
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Posted: Oct 18, 2006
That's a great thought.
it gives a logical reason to disregarding the shortcomings we see in others.
it's not just 'nice' or 'civilized' or it'll help you to make friends easier, it has a true reason.
Posted By Risa, Oak Park, MI



 


Collection I
Delight
Dark Paths
Who's First?
Why The Heavens?
Inside Workers
The Echo Upstream
Identity
Mixtures
The Lie That Is Truth
Reciprocity
How To Criticize
More on How To Criticize
The Last Word on Criticizing
Unreacting
Being Paradox
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