Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
The Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, compared chassidic teachings to pearls and coal. Pearls, he explained, are found in the depths of the sea, while coal is found deep in the earth.
“Destroy Man’s desire to sin,” our sages tell us, “and you would destroy the world.”
Not that anyone should actually sin. We need to rechannel that desire for the good. To build a house. To marry. To create.
But one who lacks the desire to sin, though he may be very righteous, is not a true citizen of this world.
And...
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Make that His will should be your will, so that He should make your will to be as His will. Nullify your will before His will, so that He should nullify the will of others before your will.
– Ethics of the Fathers 2:4
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