This world operates on chutzpah.
It has the chutzpah to declare itself a world, to assert that it is autonomous from its Creator, to deny any relationship to the very force that is continually bringing it into being every moment.
We will fight chutzpah with chutzpah.
So true! My dearest Bubbie, a direct descendant of the Rav of Odessa, always encouraged us to stand up for ourselves (especially when it came to be taunted by others). But also, to know when to walk away. Reply
Good and Bad chutzpah
Chutzpah is the conviction to carry out something with firmness of soul that what your are convicted in firmness to carry out, will be brought about by your intention to pronounce or proclaim with a full heart ( For Example) statements of your faith. Example the wailing wall.
It takes real conviction to stand up for G-D real Chutzpah to be able stand firm in the power of Chutzpah, in our belief based on what we believe from the Torah and the Tanok with a reverence heart and soul.
Reply
Would it make a difference..
Would it make a difference, to follow your heart is more than to follow the voice from within.
Thank you for pointing that out
Reply
I love it when I'm tuned in and can see how the Daily Dose resonates so clearly with what's going on around me. Thank you much Rabbi! Reply
Chutzpah Always well said, my dear Brother! Reply
Oh I get it! Following the small voice that sometimes is drowned out by the mundane world. This one had me going for sure. Yes this is a challenge that requires chutzpa. Since the voice can seem small, chutzpa must be its confident and equally audacious companion: a given. This says a lot about our living here and how we view events past, present, and future. Thanks Rabbi. Reply
Chutzpa
B'H
Chutzpa a very strong word from our Yiddish language. I have never thought of it in the manner it is presented in this daily dose. I find it opens my eyes to another way of thinking an using it, as well showing me a new respect in commuting with people. I should think first about not using this word loosely. Give some understanding for people who do not think as I have been thought. Think what G-D and our Blessed Rebbe is trying to convey to us. Rabbi Freeman, this is a very profound statement and I will think first before I open my mouth and show a disrespect for me as well as others. A gut Shabbos to all.
Reply
The Chutzpah of the world is taking it way “out of orbit”, so to speak, to self-destruction. Ours is working to bring it back to dependence on the Creator and His ways. Unfortunately we have not been as effective as we want, because we mistakenly visualize ourselves as separated physically from Him above us, and continue to look OUTWARD. The world and “space” around us is merely a shared image made by our brains, and consists of their limitations. It’s not REAL or ACTUAL.
Everything is in His Mind, which is created by His thoughts, “separate” so to speak from His Self. We project our thoughts, creating our own little “minds” in our little “selves” each separate from all the others, including Him. We think in terms of words/images which are NOT the actuality of what they seem. As in the word house is not an actual house. His Self is doing EVERYTHING, so we need to see the illusion of our “self” and reunite with the only SELF there is. Let Go and Let God. For real.