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

A team, a society, a world is healthy when each member says, "If I don't add in my two bits, the whole system will fail."

Not just any two bits, but the two bits that belong to that individual in particular. Nothing can be allowed to just serve another. Nothing can function only according to instructions. For each thing has a spark of the Divine.

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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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Posted: Jan 19, 2009
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Thanks a lot! Mr. Tvi Freeman!,
it is a beutiful synopsis (what this is i have to look up) it is really something to keep and hold in the mind!
Posted By kameo

Posted: Jan 19, 2009
My two "bits"
this has been a good lesson for me, although how i choose to understand it, cause not only enemies but also friends can harm your bits by unawareness, stupidness or carelessness.
Posted By kameo

Posted: Jan 18, 2009
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This is a synopsis of an idea the Rebbe expressed in a letter to an Israeli sociologist who had written on kibbutz (communal) society. The Rebbe discussed how a community is there for the sake of the individual's growth, not the other way around. And he also made this point that the community benefits from the unique and particular contributions of each individual--as I tried to express here
Posted By Tzvi Freeman, Thornhill, Ontario

Posted: Jan 18, 2009
The quote says "For ach thing has a spark of the Divine......"
When I read this and take it seriously, to heart, I understand that all human beings are connected and if this could be brought toto everyday awareness, if we each can acknowledge the Divine in each other, then there can be no killing of another human being. that is justifiable. The statement about Divine Spark appears to be a 'Universal tTuth' not separate as only intended to be applicable to 'us' and 'not them.' How could it be that the the Divine could approve of the killing of itself? If each person is contained within a spark of the Divine ...we are not, in truth, divided by geography or culture or personal belief. We are all One. Perhaps everyone's two bits is to put down weapons and begin to contribute in a way that acknowledges the Divine Spark in each of us.
Posted By Anonymous

Posted: Jan 18, 2009
to Max
I think Max the emphasis belongs on the words just and only, if you put the emphasis there then it makes sense,
but i still can not get the meaning of a bit!
Posted By kameo

Posted: Jan 18, 2009
p.s.
and what is the meaning of a bit, a quater of a pound, I agree with Max, can not get it!
Posted By karin post

Posted: Jan 18, 2009
two bits
sorry no joking but really i do not get the two bits why not 1 or 3 why 2, must have a significant meaning!
Can anyone help out?
Posted By karin post

Posted: Jan 18, 2009
two bits
Max, are you also from Holland?
Posted By kameo

Posted: Jan 18, 2009
Sorry I can't get "Nothing can be allowed to just serve another. Nothing can function only according to instructions. "
Thanks
Posted By Max

Posted: Jan 18, 2009
two bits
Why 2 bits? is the meaning of a bit a distance?
sorry am dutch
Posted By kameo



 


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