Self-Surrender

Now this puts self-surrender into perspective. Thank you Rabbi. Reply

Thank you, Rabbi Freeman. Reply

G d doesn’t want followers; he wants thinkers, doers, go getters, people who use their voices to bring about change for the better. G d wants all of us to use our brains, and unique personalities to become leaders in every possible area we can think of. When we accept G d with our whole hearts, minds, souls and bodies, we don’t lose not one blessing or gift he instilled in each of us. We gain freedom for who we’re meant to become. All the chains break lose and we step out into the world as a new human being who can become greater than we ever thought possible. There’re no bounds on us, the world is ours to make it into what G d had in mind for us to achieve and become before he even breathed that first breath of life into us. All of us who love and obey G d owe respect to him by giving more back to him and his world that he even created us for. Reply

Self-Refine G_d gives us a unique experience - the sensation that each is an individual entity. This attitude together with the desire to enjoy are the ingredients that produce an intention to benefit the self!

He arranged our matter this way so that we would recognize how destructive this combination of qualities that aim at self- love/concern/benefit is when we are all interconnected in global system!

The time has come for us to recognize this disasterous state.
We need to imagine how to refine our attitude towards others.
- Then we allow his Light to bridge the separation that our ego has inflicted upon our human system
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We retain our unique functions but need to use them to operate in a unified system in which we rise above self-interest for the sake of using our qualities towards the higher purpose of Life that exists in a harmonious integrated system.

Our minds and hearts must surrender in unity to this divine goal in order to elevate the self to G_d's place - a new level of existence! Reply

self surrender/the 'new' self sacrifice yes, thank you Rabbi Freeman. who is "they"?? as in....They think self-surrender means to say, “I have no mind. I have no heart. I only believe and follow, for I am nothing.” regarding self-surrender, that thought would never occur to me!?
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if we all lived by this truth wed have heaven here on earth Reply

Self-Surrender Self-Surrender to me is: Freedom of mind and soul to accept the Divine Presence in my life as EVERYTHING that there is REAL and TRUE. To connect to this Divine Power for direction to walk in the path He, and only He has set up for me, in my life. Therefore, nothing can violate this freedom that only He has given. Each individual has its own G-d given soul. The body is only a means of revelation of this soul. And no one can make us a slave but our own selves, by abandoning His presence by choosing the ways of the enemies of Hashem. Because, when we abandon His ways, then we become slaves. And that is exactly what the enemy of HaShem wants. His greed, and personal desires of power, disregarding the Power and Might of the True Giver of Life, try to enslave us with his promises and lies of a better world without G-d's ways, but his ways of self sufficiency based in their intelligence which is only brain matter. This latter will go to maggots and dust. Torah is Truth. Soul is the truth. Reply

and ignore? and ignore the Pharaoh which controls you?

What would Moses do? Live with the Pharaoh? Deny G-ds freedom of the Soul?

And the real reason religion is being dissolved.......it doesnt exist anymore....as written....

There is no need to run from "reality" to protect the Pharaoh's image of freedom.....Denying G-d in the "public square" or his existence at all is NOT freedom OR reality......

Time to choose....the Red pill....or the Blue pill.......and WHO will lead the Exodus this time around?

This is what people are waiting for........whie the Pharoah continues to grow and inhabit the entire Earth....... Reply

Surrendering the yes, i really appreciated this, because like a surgeon you have located the bleeding edges of nihilism; and sewed them back together with Godly kindness;

The needle of truth is given unto a tapestry again.

"Forge a sanctuary" ...
"to be ... the divining fork for that Divine Light, the Shabbos Bride, to enter in ..."

Yes, the 'forging' passion is not ALL; ...
but it is that which, after a surrender has occured; learns and yearns to desire connection, again.

Thank you.
Very meaningful. Reply

Bringing Earth Heaven The idea of surrender is central also to 12 Step recovery, where we often hear, "surrender to win." Modeled perhaps on Jewish belief, it does not mean the surrender of a physical self to another more powerful physical being. It means acceptance, total recognition ("with complete abandon") of our spiritual origin: G-d, in our belief, a "Higher Power," in 12 Step lexicon. At the point of surrender (complete by nature), the physical realm: desire, fear, ego, lust, envy, etc., ceases to have power over us, as that part of "us" has has been relinquished; there is nothing left for physical powers to dominate. Our "golden calf" has been shattered and we recognize the Oneness of our creator. Now we are free to use properly our abilities in the material world. Reply

Great! Wow, what a fresh way to state self-surrender! Thank you Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. Reply