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Imaginary Kindness
Discuss (7)Most of the favors we do for others are things they do not need. They only imagine they need these things, since we live in a world propelled by fantasies.
But this does not matter. They are acts of kindness, nevertheless, and G‑d desires to be found in acts of kindness. And where can kindness be performed? In a world of delusions, where people imagine all sorts of needs.
The highest, indeed, is found in the lowest, the deepest truths in the muddiest pit of confusion.
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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New Hope. MN sounds like a great place to reside in.
Good Shabbos all !
New Hope, MN/USA
Vancouver, Canada
like a camera, the human eye has the ability to discover for the mind's eye - that there is a 'perceptive lens' that extends both upward and downwards - like when you take a picture.
So yes, in a sense its only a directional difference; up and down views are shown in a mirror-like function.
(As in how the letter aleph, read in reverse is the same gematria -- as it is forwards)
or, (maybe an easier example): as sunlight reflected on a dense material object, say a pewter bowl, still has the capacity to reflect (or refract) light. So the difference is not the mirror, it's lies in the level of density of the matter reflected.
Kicking Horse Pass, BC
New York, New York
Phoenix, AZ
People have real needs. Otherwise, why do they need practical advice, laws, commandments, justice, procreation, food sleep, weaponry for defense and so on down the line ? And these needs can coexist with the Ultimate Reality. " The deepest truths in the muddiest pit of confusion " is something i don't know what to do with. I need to make a financial living so that i can eat and stay alive. I can still eat in order to pray, but first things first.
If everything is based on mysticism, that is fine. But there is a simple level upon which life is based too.