Just as wisdom is not something you can touch with your hands,
so G‑dliness is not something you can grasp with your mind.
The mind cannot experience G‑d.
G‑d is not an idea.
G‑d is real.
More than in inspiring thoughts, G‑d is found in inspired deeds.
G_d is found in the connections between us. To the extent we can form mutual positive relationships of unconditional love, empathy, giving and kindness, we will reveal the spiritual sensation of G_dliness within this unity.
By our efforts we will gradually bring these spiritual qualities in alignment with G_d's nature.
This is what was achieved at Sinai, where everybody united above their differences according to the paradigm:
We shall do and we will hear.
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ישר כוח!
Don’t just talk the talk, walk the walk. If the walk is on the Derech Hashem, you can’t lose.
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Love this!
The derech caught my eye, as that is my Fathers name!
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If G-D is everywhere, seems to me He must also have to be in the mind. I'm not disputing what you said but aren't we supposed to love G-D "with all our heart, mind and soul"?
Some people DO only "honor Him with their lips", and to many people His IS only an idea. It's also not confined to only one religion. I should say that, in my experience, only a remnant knows the Real G-D. Religion can be used for good or evil, but only G-D is only good; the real G-D never changes.
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I like your concept; shema in mind!
Shalom.
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Shalom to you A.D.M./Y, Lol! I'm glad it stuck somewhere. I'm not as fancy in speech, as most of you, but it means the same thing. It's the "Rose by any other name, smells as sweet." Reply
Yasher Koach on this Limud. Strenthens Emunah. Reply
This is so great! Thank you for sharing Reply
Excellent - But one does not get the opportunity often enough, to do good deeds Reply
And sometimes good deeds don't go unpunished. Reply
G-dliness
It is not the thought of the mind, it is a feeling of belonging. It comes from the heart, and mind because we are part of that thought who created us. He is the reality of the soul within us, therefore, we are His as
He is ours. G-d is real as we are real and so
are our thoughts and our heart agrees, and
that is how we feel His love. The only true
love, as we describe it in our human terms.
It depends on the individual what love
means. Different people have different kinds
of interpretations voncerning love. What is
yours? Sacrifice, dedication, obeyance,
devotion, or just simply wanting love back
from that union of Creation? If we think with
our mind then we will feel with our heart,
and from there our whole being. That is my
reality of being. But then, everyone's
thought is different. Then, G-dliness, is a
thought, it will be only in our mind.
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" ONLY IN OUR MIND?" What more can there be? In my opinion, what is in my mind is all over me! Reply
To Anon, to me it's honesty, respect, and faithfulness. It's the little things like holding the door for someone, or letting a person in a hurry up in line. A smile of acknowledgement when you pass by a person. Being nice even though your in a bad mood and being a helping hand for a disabled person. It doesn't have to be major. If someone does that for me I feel loved inside and out.
Your reality comes from being very wise and understanding according to your post.
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BE WITHIN STAY ABOVE
anything posted about God gets our attention rabbi...i like what you posted...God is everywhere...in and out....reaching out to us...longing for a relationship with us....He created us for His good pleasure...as a child i was beaten & forced to sit in the sun..once i heard a thought ,,,[not audible] ,,that resonated in first person,
" do not cry, you need the water from your tears for endurance & one of these days you will be grown-up & you will not have to bake like this"...
God has never stopped speaking to me via my conscience or whatever one wants to call it...
i know the abuse moved Him with loving compassion, sorrow, and mercy towards me.....but in way in am lucky...because i was in a home void of God...and God came hard after me...i did not have to do anything.!..i learned later as a teen more about God...& about 10 yrs ago some jewish ancestry....
i was blessed by observing shauvot recently ...& am growing...it will take a lifetime to catch up...
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thanks
Another pearl of wisdom. Guess i had Him ' limited ' in my mind. I still think the mind part helps, even if it is too illusory/unreal .
But no argument, you can't beat deeds. Deeds trump thoughts every time. Forgot that it applies to Him too.
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Doing good deeds without thinking is the best way to be. Reply
Inspired deeds Perfectly said. Inspired deeds will show us and others the way. Reply
Getting sane through inspiration fr. G-D I had an experience that was definitely G-d driven...On the way to a Housing Authority to get an apartment based on how poverty stricken you are...I was stomping my feet saying that I was definitely going to get it get it, get it. You know...raising my fist and all...then I get there and allll these people are dressed in their best?? No. I was dressed in my best as I always am. These people..were dressed in clothes that were never washed at-all and their behaviour was that of desperate people banging on the glass asking to see the one in charge immediately...and I was standing there...in my clean clothes...always...in clean clothes and I felt so very bad I felt that I didn't deserve this apartment at all that they deserved it and I was going to walk out when the woman at the front desk asked for my papers...and took them...I walked home...three miles... Reply
Mental Limits
Wisdom is abstract & a blessing from comes from Yahweh, not from academic qualifications. The purpose of our lives on earth is in fact to experience Godliness through purification.
Inspired deeds are only through inspired thoughts. The deeds are the results of the thought.
I am curious - are your Daily Doses deliberate to check if they are read!! I ask this in good humour!
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Mental Limits Thank you , rabbi. I was so discouraged, did not really understand your answer yesterday either, but I am so glad that it is not the matter of my mind. I know there are many famous Jewish people, genius level. They are also very articulate, expressing things in ways I do not think of before. In one gathering there was a rabbi from England who talked about history into today events and I was so touched. Do inspired deeds are achievements of certain nobility ? What would be something I an average person with certain love to the L-rd considered so in my daily activities? And where does my failure stand? Reply
Who is the "I" who can be missing something?
I suppose in the realm of functionality via structure, you are correct.
But in the realm of simultaneously holding all the precepts in One, all-emcompassing structure-function, the Rabbi's creed holds.
For in every singular mind, there are limited resources of cognition and conceptual items able to be in a working thought at any given time.
So perhaps in a collective body of thought, then a wider knowing, that is knowing-itself, only then becomes possible.
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I 100% agree! G‑d is better found in inspired deeds than in inspiring thoughts. Reply
Am I missing something? How would we know if anything is beyond our comprehension? There is no concept that interested me that I have sought to understand and failed to understand. In terms of ethics, I see what comes around goes around and vice versa. In terms of science, electromagnetism and chemical properties explains any phenomena. Ethics and science combined summarize in the mathematics of music. In music, material ideas subject to quality and interactivity, meet with spiritual concepts such as signal, amplification, rate, and resonance. Reply
Amen. Reply
Deeds are evident as a result of following a life bederech. You don't do the deeds for others but for yourself as a way to stand in this proper path. Deed means Mitzvot that range everyday from morning to the time we go to sleep : from Modeh Ani to the Shma. That is a direct connection with H': prayer. Then we have to be careful of what it comes out of our mouth and not fall into lashon harah. Yes, it is proper to say static in the phone when somebody starts to gossip. Extending oneself via tzedaka with the best being anonymous, helps us also to make contact with H.' Being honest in your words and deeds at home, as well as at work is also a path to stay bederech near H'. Caring actively about nature I would argue these are but minute examples of whatt he fragment of the Rebbe is expllining.