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Conscious Creation


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

He creates with Consciousness.

First, He is conscious of a world from beyond that world, of time and place as concepts that might be, but might not as well. And so, that world exists, but it is not a thing. It exists as no more than a dream, a passing fancy.

Yet then He is conscious of that world from within. He judges, He makes distinctions. He says, "It should be like this and not like that. This I like, this I do not." He plays the game that He has made by the rules of that game, so that in this consciousness, a true world is born, a place that feels, "Yes, I exist."

So, does our world exist, or does it not?

That He leaves up to us. "Do something," He asks, "that compels me to believe you truly exist."
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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: May 5, 2010
Conscious Creation
This is a wonderful Torah thought. Don't we learn this, or very similar, in Tanya?

Your final sentence needs a bit of clarification for me. That He leaves up to us. "Do something," He asks, "that compels me to believe you truly exist."

G-d states "Do something." But who are you referring to in the last part? Is this G-d saying to us, if we do 'something', it compels Him to believe in us. Or does this mean, if we do something, it will compel "me" (a person) to believe You (meaning G-d) truly exists.

Does all this mean that G-d want us to do, and then He will believe is us, His Chosen - or is this teaching that if we do something, we will come to believe in G-d?

Can you please explain what you are trying to teach us in these final verses of your deep, yet wonderful article? Thank You! I look forward to your explanation.
Posted By A E Rubin, Chicago, IL USA

Posted: May 5, 2010
i think i get it
everything is a cycle and seems to be mechanized. It is when someone breaks away from the cycle of cause and effect and perform personal miracles that alters their trajectory that our consciousness becomes evident.
Posted By cecilia beltran, new york

Posted: May 5, 2010
Wonderful!
Wonderful message! Thank you!
Posted By Syed Shahid Ali, Karachi, Pakistan



 


Collection II
A Two-Faced World
Martyrs of Life
Leave Nothing Behind
Growing Up
Conscious Creation
Definitions
Understanding & Understandable
Exploiting a Setback
Misappropriation
Inexplicable Justice
Purposeful, But Despised
Insufficient Sins
Protest
Demand Your Rights
Be Quiet
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