Continuing the Modeh Ani meditation with a contemplation of the Creator as Author of our personal stories.
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You have illuminated and elevated these prayers for me. Please do me a favor, take the repetitive new age music out of the background...it is very distracting, please. Said with all appreciation:)
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Once i sat on Shabbat meditating on" Why do we grant a human being the privilege of even being a king?" Then i began to vision a poker tournament where all the nations of the world where given a chance to play at being the king of poker. Some nations just got greedy,others just wanted to survive and even some nations we're looking to take out the competation.The remaining nations just wanted a chance to play to be king.The dealer, well that represents the choices of the players ability to have what it takes to be the king.The odds of having all four kings in your hand is pretty rare. Sometimes we can't call the shots in the game of chance we have to hope that the good life we live could merit the hand we are dealt with. The last part of the thought is that G-d is the king,He is the chance ,He is the life, He is apart of everything that goes on during the game of life. For only the Creator can crown a king, it might be good or it might be bad its your choice not His.
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In Jewish law, the king stands beneath the law. It is a historical that when the British parliament executed Charles 1st in 1649, they cited the ruling of Maimonides that a king can be punished by the Sanhedrin for breaking the law.
So, in truth, you are already following much of our religion, since so much of modern civilization is based upon Jewish values.
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In your case, the KING is responsible for everything, because his word is your truth, isn't it?
So, where is your responsibility for something, for anything? Where can you divide your responsibility from the KINGs responsibility?
You should explain that to yourself, and you should ask yourself: Do I believe in my explanation?
What you are telling there, is nothing but a pitfall. It has a huge range of interpretation space, and therefore it's worth nothing... finally, because you cannot define where exactly the line between your and the KINGs responsibility can be drawn.
This always will be highly speculative, so it will always be a truth to believe in, and not a truth to know.
Sorry, but I will NOT follow your religion in any way.
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Dear Rabbi,
Your video explaining the Modeh Ani in three parts, has brought me into contact with an experience unknown to me, awe inspiring and full of life. I struggle to fully understand the meaning of the first video though. I hope the experience of the words will reveal themselves to me as has part two.
thank you so much for making the meaning of these words available.
gratefully,
Aline
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This is helped me so much!
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Rabbi Tzvi,
I loved this teaching. This is what I wanted. To pray in Hebrew.
There is one question I have. Why is it that I cry from the deepest of my soul when I think about G-d? I feel such a great love for him that I want to be with him.
Is that right or wrong? I feel that my soul missed him my entire life. I know so well that He is not that far away from us, yet I do not want to be here but with him. Please give me an insight on this? Thank you so much.
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read something last week that said that good deeds are light, and live on eternally while bad or evil is the darkness which just fades away.
So thank you Rabbi Tzvi, yes we must increase our awareness of that and indeed live in eternity. powerful. amen
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exactly what I was looking for !
Appreciate you so very much
Awesome !
Thank you
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Thank you for your uplifting words. We can debate this again in the New Year :)
Thank you also for the insight you gave me that with each year more light is present and that therefore I can and must believe in myself. It is true , there is more light. So excited for Rosh HaShanah. :)
Is it a very good practice to have the words in front of us when we say a blessing? I understand our Holy Tongue is really fire, G-d fire. I understand its a powerful force. If i see the words in front of me , they will imprint on my mind and effect my tongue and my thoughts as I pray. No?
I want to take on this habit this year to only say a blessing with the words in front of me. I want to burn them into my soul. Is this a great idea?
Rabbi Tzvi and all Jews May you be signed and sealed in the book of LIFE, life of Torah, Mitzvot, Kindness and Unity, Shalom, Blessings and material and spiritual wealth, revealed and manifest
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