None of us can claim to have attained enlightenment as long as there is another who has not.
No one is liberated until we are all free.
Ultimate truth is an unlimited light
—and if it is unlimited,
how could it shine in one person’s realm
and not in another’s?
In the World of Truth there is one soul. It is an interdependent, interconnected network in which each part plays it's role. Harmony, cooperation and integration reign. This system is aligned with G_diness.
When we are free from self-focus and self-benefit we can create this perfect state in which G_d's light can dwell amongst us.
We must build this one unified system for G_d's unlimited light to shine between us.
We create our common Soul.
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If this is true then it is a futile effort to try. Yet the Torah was never given to be looked upon as futile.
No, the struggle to reach some level of improvement isn’t a competition with my neighbour, it’s a struggle within myself to address flaws and weaknesses, to address my own shortcomings and become a better quality individual for a more useful helpful purpose in life.
That is my view anyway.
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Every Jew has a bracha (channel) to receive and bask in the light of Hashem. Each person’s level of concealment may regulate how much light is received. Being aware of this, being compassionate towards others (admittedly this is not always easy), is a way to help more light filter through others’ levels of concealment, including our own filters. As this becomes more apparent and evident among ourselves, and manifests through our practices, helping to enlighten others, more space becomes open for Moshiach to arrive. Reply
GM 🌻It is an impossibility for light to be trapped by darkness. When GD speaks the seed, encased within darkness, translates via the light, grows, and is carried away by the breathe of the wind to its soil, and it blossoms for a moment. We each become apart of an array of flowers in the beautiful garden of enlightenment. Our blossom's food is the nectar that is suckled by the honeybee[s] enabling one to eat, and become wise - Torah. The soul of the flower does not die, but it is reborned - "gigul neshamot."
Baruch HaShem,
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GD's Word Is the Joy and Delight of Divine Truth.
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question Say that your premise could ever be true. Who owns the truth ? Chabad ? Satmar ? Reform ? Agnostics ? Atheists ? Reply
Truth. Truth as we humans know it is at best, subjective. Each of us can witness a crime and come to a different conclusion. None of us will tell the same story if asked to recount the facts of the crime. Therefore, the truth has to be defined on an individual basis. So, redemption must be obtained on an individual basis. To do otherwise would be egocentric... Or would it? Only G*d knows the truth, and that is because he is perfection personified. The rest of us are just human. Reply
It is a mystery of G-ds grace like our father Avraham, why him, so full of Light , caring about others. Redemption to me is in all of us and its door is closed until we let go of self and with your heart be your brothers keeper . Reply
Facing the truth Most people can't handle the truth,and would rather live in darkness. Reply
But wait !
I've got a question on this:
are you saying...with Redemption, we will ALL, each one of us, have access to unlimited understanding? What will be Moshiach's role ? Why would we even need a teacher ? Seems impossible. Sorry, I just can't get this. Also, this might be a really stupid question: but could someone please define what it means - how to recognize when someone is redeemed? I thought it meant the end to all tzoros, now maybe I understand it also has to mean that we have unlimited understanding, is unlimited understanding part of its definition ? Each soul has different capabilities I don't see how it is possible.
thank you.
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Interesting
This certainly makes the question, "Am I my brother's keeper?", uncommonly relavent. And the idea that we are given more strength when the work we do, we do for all others. Can it be said that if one claims to have reached the ultimate truth that this is in fact the substance of its nature? Ultimate redemption of all? Escape from bondage and go, free all who you can from bondage?
This is quite the breath of Spirit and a heart opener.
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No One
Then no one will ever reach the ultimate truth or ever be redeemed.
I'd rather choose to think that there is a possibility of hope in my life. And I do so choose.
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All Or No One
Concerning?...
If it is Heavens, then how do we know that there is one?
If it is the Living G-d, how did the Patriarch know them? For it is written....
If it is Truth itself, how do we come to trust?
If it is about the "Redeemer," why do we call Him "Our Redeemer?"
Could it be possible that the "unlimited light" have not reached one because of lack of faith, and doe shines on other, because of?
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how could it shine in one person's realm and not
anothers?
Because they refuse to open their eyes and look.
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Can't accept this
Only G-d has/is ultiment truth. No man will ever acheive that level of light. But to the stated premise, as long as man is free to choose, there will always be those unable to receive, and some who choose to refuse, light. Such inability/rebellion may bring sadness among those observing who have received light, but in no way diminishing what they have. To adopt the stated premise robs the possibility of enlightenment for anyone.
Was Moses not in light even when he dwelled among those who refused light? Have I misunderstood?
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thought for the day Extremely well said, well written, and truly understood Reply
There is something called reality that leads us to a substantial level of truth. Not all because we are human beings, but more than partial because we have reasoning and a capacity to distinguish between sheer lies, and the approximate truth. Without a question, the whole truth is with H". Yet, we were endowed with rational thinking and free will; plus the Torah, and the rabbis are there ALSO to guide us. Torah is truth. This fragment of the Rebbe is inkling that we, as Jews, have an obligation to stick with that truth and spread it out. To whom? To those unfortunate fellow Jews -that for one reason or another have no great time to spend learning Torah. Indeed, that is how Chassidism grew, it had social reasons, and gave joy and truth to those who had to work to sustain their families, and could not sit day in and day out learning. Given that, it is our obligation to spread how little ,or much we know. Sharing Torah's truth elevates all of us since personal ones differ.