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Time Machine


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

If you could travel back in time, what could you change? The world, its past and its present all belong to the Creator. All is as He wills it to be.

Perhaps you could replay some crucial scenes and distance yourself from the mess that occurred. Perhaps you could jump in and grab credit for some of the good.

But for that, you don’t need a time machine. All you need is to stand right where you are and say, “I messed up. I lost my chance. I learned my lesson and now I will do things differently.”

You will change yourself. You will change your past. You will say, “I am no longer the person who lived in that past.”

In fact, you do have a time machine.
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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: Oct 5, 2011
Time machine
There is no going back. Lets move foward to Moshiach.
Posted By Israel Bitran, San jose, Costa rica

Posted: Oct 5, 2011
time machine
It is very true, what the Rebbe says, I want my self to change, and like a time machine change all the facts that I do in the past wrong.
In the most important day of the jewish religion, I will do my best to became a new person, and try to change, so all my family will be proud of me
Posted By Anonymous, lima, Perú

Posted: Oct 5, 2011
Time Machine
O L-rd I just pray right now that I let go my past because there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. And right now I submit all I am all I do all of my life and to remember to worship You that G-d I Am this very day very moment. Amen.
Posted By Anonymous, Forest Hills, NY/USA

Posted: Oct 5, 2011
I'd eliminate Hitler
I know that my errors are my fault and my life is what I make it - mostly. However, if I could do anything at all to change the past, I would end Hitler's life before he came to power. The Jewish people did not deserve the Holocaust.
Posted By Mr. Nelson Rose

Posted: Oct 5, 2011
Thank you
You all mean so much to me as you are almost the only Jewish contact I have. Thank you for all the wonderful information you send me
Posted By Ron, Roberts, Id

Posted: Mar 25, 2010
Needs clarification
If statement "The world, its past and its present all belong to the Creator. All is as He wills it to be." is true, than Hitler and his actions are correct as they are His will.
Sorry, but I can't agree with "All is as He wills it to be". It looks that His will is not to interfere so people can have their free will.
Posted By Rey, Toronto, CDN

Posted: Apr 20, 2009
Clarification
A reader asked: if the past and it's present all belong to the Creator, please clarify our liability and culpability.

My response: Yes, it's a puzzle and I'm not sure within the realm of the human mind to resolve. But this is the simple faith of a Jew, as the sages taught: Everything is in the hands of heaven except for the fear of heaven. Meaning that whatever occurs is what He intended to occur, but it is up to us whether we take responsibility for the good or for the bad, whether we play the losers or the heroes of the story.

See The Paradox of Free Choice: Six Questions.
Posted By Tzvi Freeman

Posted: Apr 20, 2009
Time machine
Great reminder to be in check w/ourselves.

Thank you.
Posted By Linda Spilka

Posted: Apr 20, 2009
Time Machine
Remorse and resolve are a beginning but they stop short of action. Each of us has the ability to stand in our mistakes, own them and set them to right in whatever way makes sense. That way we are freed of the remorse, our integrity re-established and we can move forward whole and complete to live lovingly and honor ourselves and our commitments to G-d and others.
Posted By Deborah Rosen, MIlford, CT

Posted: Apr 20, 2009
No time
There's no past or future, only the everchanging now. So there'd be no need for remorse as you haven't stuffed up anything. What you do is choose different moments of experience within the now.
There's no right or wrong or good or bad but different choices of expressions.
Posted By Steve Katz, Australia



 


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