Stay Calm and Change Your Future

Can men keep in mind their family members when shaking the lulav and etrog? Or do they have to do it themselves. Reply

These are powerful words and so true.
At this time as I face a serious disease, which will close my life, I am deeply aware of the meaning of trusting in G-d. This Trust, brings peace, and gratitude within our hearts. Reply

These are very powerful and uplifting words and I do so believe in them.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Reply

When I was a child, I watched the movie Ruth. The words were profound! My friends and I did not understand the impact of the those words and why we cried. We made a vow, when I become an adult I want to say those words of commital, but I said those words to G-d as a child:

Ruth 1:16-17 "And Ruth beg not to leave her or return following after her; wherever you go I will go, and wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people will be my people and your G-d my G-d. Where you die I will die and there I will be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also if ought but death part me from you. When she saw the depth of her commitment, she left speaking unto her.
Tragedy - A young woman and an elderly woman lost everything. Nothing. Trust.

Now, I am an adult. I still cry. Trust.

Thank you, Dr. Freeman for reminding me. Reply

ruth 3 Obviously there is much for you to say on the topic of sensitivity lost and how it will be regained on a massive scale.

This forum is not about this subject. i'll catch up to you in a future forum that is more germane to the hearing/listening/revolution. Reply

ruth 2 Very very interesting.

I think that i have narrowed it down a bit, but that is just for my ' hearing '. To me, there is a box filled with some liquid medium and a filter. What we hear comes in one end. Step 2 is that it hits the filter. Step 3 is that it comes out the other end as 'listened'. There is a conversion taking place at the filter. We can both ' hear ' the identical thing, but once it comes out the other end, the ' listened ' thing is possibly different to you and to me.

I have noticed how often you speak to a young person at an appropriate volume and they reply " Sorry, what ? ". To you, they are lacking ' hearing sensitivity '. To me they did not process it to ' listening ' skill.

Your last statement is very exciting. On the hearing sensitivity, i am pushing the same angle but from listening. Hearing or listening - the way we are using them is semantics. Loved your material about how the next generation are ' hearing and processing/listening differently from us. Reply

Awesome You're right anonymous, all the kids use this, and it's a great word to use for G_D. The sum of all awe.

I find myself wanting to keep all the words my grandchildren are using, as in writing them down, but also what they put to paper, because they "hear" words, in ways we don't. Spelling prevents our hearing words as they come in. When you look at the productions of children, their ways of writing down what they hear are really instructive and quite wonderful.

I believe there is a massive opening of consciousness headed our way, and it is deeply going to concern what we hear, a sensitivity that has been largely, lost. Reply

ruth the word you are looking for is ' awesome '. Today's generation use it as a catchall cool phrase and there is no problem with that. However, if you confine Awesome only to G-d, it becomes a very powerful description. For example, nature is Awesome. Nature is a part of G-d. Maybe, try it for a while. It makes me chuckle how young kids use it. " Let's go to the the mall. " Awesome. " My favourite is the reply to a mistake " It's all good. " It's small potatoes of course. The English language is not static, nor are its idioms. Reply

what is our responsibility we live on planes of existence. On this level we need to act with an ethics of choice, and we have the concept Tikkun, to repair what is broken, to heal, support, nurture. On a cosmic plane G-d knows everything we will do. Actually nothing is random. I do not imagine this. I know this? How? I keep a Diary that is by now needing a word that is more astounding than astounding because I have proof of constant Divine Providence which I record. It is a story that is irrefutable & stands as Proof. And to be sure the implications have scared me but I feel great love. It is a constant communication through sign, focus, experiential events. It all mirrors. G-d is indisputably in charge of all stories or this massive synchronicity could not be happening. Sure this poses problems. Would you rather a random universe or a guided universe with Love at the helm? I also know it is not over when it's over.
That's the good news. Reply

ruth I don't think that G-d can be held responsible for everything. That would be a cop-out. We have Free Choice. Therein lies the responsibility. If there is a gray area, therein lies the struggle between Free Choice and Divine Providence. With each birth we pray to G-d that a baby lives its destiny. There is an actual prayer for this. I heard it sung once at a bris and was blown away when it was translated for me. Reply

When He sees how much you trust in Him, He will make it be all for the good. Does this work for everything?
What if the situation occurred when we were, say, 18 months old, or two years old, and we, in our childish ignorance, deduced inaccurate ideas and made wrong decisions? And what if those inaccurate ideas and wrong decisions were so terrifying that we were forever after crippled in our approach to life?

It's very difficult, it may even be impossible, to feel that terror, much less to stop being inhibited by that repressed terror and by the chronic physical disease that resulted from it.

But what if we NOW make an intellectual decision to trust GD?

Tell us, Rabbi--Will Gd still "make it be all for the good" after so many years? Reply

all for the good I see it's ALL G_D so ultimately G_d is responsible for Everything that happens. Now it's a hard notion to confront, and perhaps it is meant to be hard. Yes, I regret those things I did wrong, but on another plane I have to know, I am actually not responsible, but that doesn't stop me from asking forgiveness. There is a profound paradox here. So these words are true, but it goes way deeper. Reply

Stay Calm This is definitely one of the most meaningful and truthful statements I've heard in a long time. I've been looking for a Jewish way to say something like this. Reply

full of wisdom so true Reply

Wish I wish that i could believe this. Am struggling to work on it. Thanks for the reminder. Reply

stay calm Did you write that for me? I just can't believe I just read this. Thank-you so much. It speaks right to my life. I will so definitely take this to heart! Reply

Thanks! Many thanks to Rabbi Freeman for bringing down this wisdom to earth!

Regards. Reply

stay calm Thank you for this...just what I needed ... Reply

Just Beautiful.... When I read "stay in calm" My soul felt peace and my heart love.
Amazing how just a few words make you feel this way.
Thank G-d. Reply