The Best Kept Secret in the World

The subject here is supposed to be a secret, but they turned it into a blunder. It is something so well kept that we do not know its nature, what it is made of or what consequences it resulted in. It seems that the secret is that Teshuvah (repentance) allows us to return to G-d and discarding from our being everything that G-d does not like we will get a self-transformation that will make us both happy and productive people.

I think it’s a utopia because for people who don’t fit into any religious organization, how could we approach G-d from our loneliness, and how would we know what G-d doesn’t like. Reply

Brilliant piece. Like so many of your other ones. G-d bless you for taking such difficult concepts and making them accessible to us. Reply

A lesson I recently learned a great lesson from an article on this site. Maimonides teaches us that G-d loves a sinner more who returns, than the purest soul.

I wondered for a long time about that myself. How could I feel G-d's blessings if I committed such huge mistakes? Than it hit me, and this is what is written on that: 'When Maimonides wants to explain why one who has stumbled, fallen into the muck and mire, picked himself up and returned is dearer to G‑d than the most innocent, purest soul, he writes, “Because he has tasted the taste of sin, and parted from it.”''.

Ain't that cool? ;) Reply

What is G-d's Plan Anyway? Is G-d telling the truth? An abused infant never becomes socially adapted as his very arrival turns out to be the first blunder of his earthly existance. As a result his spirit wishes to leave and the memory is retained until his formal education wipes it out. Every young child knows that the whole purpose of his existance is love. He is then indoctrinated into a system of fear, hate and greed until his memory fools him into believing that all people are puppets with no meaningful purpose on earth. At that point of rejecting G-ds love G-d reveals his plan. Man has free will to choose right and wrong, love or hate, is held responsible for his own soul and his own survival. All his blunders serve to remind him that love is the only truth in the universe and that man was created as a co-creator and it is entirely up to him to create a heaven on earth that loves and values all men, all earth, all space, all time and abuses nothing. G-d is telling the truth but who is listening? Reply

Blunders Blessings and wishing a peaceful Sabbath:

I sit in amazement looking at my many blunders, feeling more positive in the test that I am constantly faced with.

Have I had more blunders than anyone? Probably not, yet I feel that I have had more than most or many.

Great comfort is derived from knowing or even imagining that my many blunders are a test from G-d. there is great comfort and hope. Perhaps that is the meaning. A source of comfort and hope. Reply

Thank You HaShem for Yanki Tauber I can't remember if I've ever DISliked an article by Yanki Tauber; Certainly, not in recent memory.

With a deft hand, he summed up centuries of disputations on sin and repentence, the human condition, and the man - G-d relationship in about a page.

Thank you Yanki Tauber. You shape Torah and the words of the Rebbe to our current times in simple, understandable, yet powerful language. I forwarded this article (with appropriate copyright attribution) to my mailing list of people with whom I want to share a new, vibrant. Judiasm that we never got as part of our Reform Jewish education. Reply

The best kept secret in the world In reading your commentary about the "Best Kept Secret in the World", I can't help but wonder if a reason, at least my human interpretation of a reason, for mistakes is that sometimes a person can repair imperfections in their spiritual and material essense through attention, reflection, and concerted effort. However, sometimes we need a bit of a nudge. Can it be that errors and mistakes are a way to force the issue and to confront us with the impact of our decisions and spiritual needs? Perhaps mistakes are G-d's way of letting us know that we still have much to work on. Reply