46. Nuclear Power - Daily Dose of Wisdom

Momentous Missions

Even from the most horrible things we can learn great lessons. From the threat of nuclear destruction we can learn several things about how to rearrange the world for the good:

• You don’t need great armies.

• It can take only one simple act.

• You don’t have to understand how it works—just what button to press.

• It doesn’t matter who does it, as long as he presses the right button.

• From the smallest things come the biggest changes.

• Tremendous power has always been there—it needs only to be revealed.

. . . and since all this has been discovered only in our generation, it must be of particular relevance to us.

Momentous Missions

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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December 4, 2012

Mind Power

Our greatest power is within - our attitude and intentions. Change your mind and you will change your world. Then there won't be any need for struggle and conflict to fix the external world.

Brenda
Toronto, Canada

July 16, 2010

using it for the good

Using it for the good does not work the same way as destruction. Continuing the analogy of the nuclear power:

1. It takes much preparation and training before you can use nuclear power for the good, e.g. to produce electricity.
1. When you use it for the good, you need to take great care that it does not cause harm.
2. As a byproduct of using it for the good, the material for destruction is made.
3. Because of this possibility of destruction inherent in the good, many good people will oppose using the nuclear power to produce electricity.
4. Nevertheless, because there is possibility of good in the nuclear power, it is our obligation to reveal this possibility and use it for the good and not for destruction

Alexandra
New York, NY

July 16, 2010

moshiach and nukes

"...and since all this has only been discovered in our generation, it must be of particular relevance to us."

This is, for me, the most awesome part of thinking here...that the Moshiach is here, in each generation, and that it is our task, in THIS generation, IN THIS TIME when our service is sufficient to acknowledge him with a million singular deeds that the world be transformed NOW. I think of the text that speaks of "their iniquity is not yet full" being transformed into "their service is now full" and it is like the nuclear reality now being at the threshold of use or non-use.

happyminyan
los Angeles, california

July 15, 2010

Interesting!

This is really interesting. A new approach to view things from different perspective!

Regards.

Shahid

June 16, 2007

All the World is my teacher, nuclear power

It can be said; because we are all G-d's children we are a nuclear power. There are some cultures that feel bound to each other like family, regardless of blood ties; this is based upon cultural bounds that have evolved over centuries. This this cutlure becomes a family, which is said to be Nuclear. Adam and Eve were the first of a nuclear family. So what do we make of this metal and chemicals to which those who made them attach the name Nuclear? We make of it whatever we feel the need to. Negative or positive are its uses.
How do we see our world? Is it nuclear or is it individual. As we travel the road of life we all must remember the words from the poem: no man is an island entire of himself.

Ms. Freedman
USA