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Daily Dose of Wisdom

Knowing That Which You May Know

A creature born without parents can never know what it means to cry for his father and mother.

A being with no sense of the transcendental can never know what is G‑d and what is G‑dly.

The words, the explanations, we hear them through our minds, but they speak to our souls.

For the soul already knows.


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 25, 2012
Knowing that which you may know
I can totally relate to the first sentence, except in my case, it is as as it it applies to bubbehs. Both my bubbehs died when my parents were 6 years old.

I only know bubbeh as an intellectual word; it has no emotional meaning for me. Since my daughters died before having children, I have no connection there either.

Yet I do have a connection that I feel for I carry the names of my bubbehs and in that sense, I know them - with or without words.
Posted By Karin Kruger, Oklahoma City, OK/USA

Posted: May 25, 2012
wow
i thank and praise G-d you posted this today for my eyes to see and my heart to feel

thankyou so much

G-d bless YOU, one and all who came together throughout every generation to bear this message out. love all x
Posted By Michelle, UK

Posted: May 20, 2012
On "a creature born without parents"...
There is no such thing as a "creature born without parents". As biological beings, everything that breathes has two parents. Even plants and trees have "parents" - the plant or tree that dropped the seed from which it grew! So I cannot agree with the first sentence of this "Daily Dose".
As for the other two sentences, I do agree.
Posted By Justin Roth, Staten Island, NY

Posted: June 1, 2009
For Crofton
Good point, it would seem. But really, you can only teach to those that already know.
Posted By Tzvi Freeman, Thornhill, Ontario

Posted: June 1, 2009
Knowing that which you may know
I don't understand. If the soul "already knows," then why do we need words?
Posted By Anonymous, Crofton, MD



 



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