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

There is only one way to bring people closer to Torah, whether your friend, your spouse, your child, or a complete stranger. It is not with rebuke, not with arguments, not with intellectual games -- but by drawing them with thick cords of love, by showing your faith in who they are and with real deeds.

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Posted: Dec 9, 2008
true true
So true, that is the message of the Torah isn't it. We are all special and unique and our suffering and strengths are all unique and beautiful and no one has the right to judge anyone.

It has taught me so much compassion for others and for myself.
Posted By Cecilia

Posted: Dec 8, 2008
Love Pulls
the torah is a way of life, its a way of dealing with one another when issues tear at relationships, its a way of looking beyond ones desires or personal ambitions and to look at how ones beliefs contradict the torah and come then to the way of the torah. so the question would then be, how do you bring people closer to the torah who oppose those who oppose their falsehoods and how can one be expected to show faith in who they are when they oppose so much of who you are when your beliefs are unbending nor compromising with that wish is not compatible? are we to do as Anonymous in Thornhill, Ont says and hug with emptiness and fake love simply to tolerate?
Posted By henk, Buffalo, NY

Posted: Dec 8, 2008
When I try to show love for another Jew I can only give empty gestures. I can give the person a hug, I can tell person that I love him but those acts remain empty, without feeling. I can do those things even if the person is not nice even if the person looks like he is intentionally trying to hurt me I can still give the person a hug but the gesture remains without feeling. Perhaps the fact that I could hug a person that I think such things about shows empty my actions are.

Is there anything that I can do to change the way I am?
Posted By Anonymous, thornhill, ont

Posted: Dec 8, 2008
Exactly
Thank you for so aptly expressing what is in my heart. I have tried to explain before, but have never been able to say it so eloquently as you have. It is a very basic and fundamental truth that we all need to bear in mind as we go about our daily lives, interacting and shining our light to the world.
Posted By Rusti, Quitman, AR



 


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