Protest - Daily Dose of Wisdom

There are those who are angry with G-d for all the horrible suffering they have seen.

We cannot argue. They have a right. Perhaps G-d will listen.

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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February 22, 2007

Source

The source of this thought is significant to its understanding:

As the news of the holocaust hit American Jewry, there were Jewish journalists began to write along the lines of "there is no longer any covenant. If there is a G_d, He has broken His part of the deal."

An orthodox journalist wrote to the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, and asked if he should "declare war" on those who wrote these editorials.

The above is Rabbi Yosef Yitzchaak's response, as reported in Kfar Chabad magazine, volume 496.

Tzvi Freeman (Author)

February 22, 2007

G-d is always listening.

Really, we don't get any points for complaining. Before we have a problem or protest against G-d, let's think about the mitzvah we could be doing at that moment. Maybe we should keep a list of mitzvahs by our side so that we can shift focus when we start having dark thoughts. We should definitely write down our concerns in a notebook because it provides relief and also then we know that we don't have to think about it anymore because it's in writing and Hashem will look there instead of in our hearts which are becoming blackened by our inability to see any good at the moment of the protest.

Linda Haniford
Brooklyn, NY

July 21, 2004

action and non-action

someone said, non-action, as to those witnesses of the holocaust, is a crime.

we therefore, must ponder, did we all who claimed to be jewish, besides being a g-d obeying race, did we as well, help other race to know and get to the true essence of g-d??

all these talks, all these pondering, all these thoughts and imaginations, teachings and studies, if not putting into sustainable actions with goal and objective orientation, they are just no more than clouds hanging oover our heads, between heaven and eath, but cease to be any good to anyone.

roj