Being Not That

A question of why nations are again attempting to murder the Creator's covenant people if the Jewish people are following His Torah commandments? If the orthodox community of Traditional Rabbinical Judaism is righteous and obeying Hashem's Torah, why is God again about to do what He did to Sodom and Gomorrah?

I remembered Genesis 18:32 when Abraham was speaking to Hashem. "'And he said, “Let not my lord be angry if I speak but this last time: What if ten should be found there?” “I will not destroy for the sake of the ten.'

If there are ten righteous men in the world, would there be, as promised, a land of peace, milk, and honey?" Reply

I disagree with this. We are what we make ourselves

God might bestow his gifts on us but in the end we are the sculptors of our own being. Reply

Hashem created each human in His likeness and imageless, and the meaning of this statement prompts a question of how matter or atoms can contain the imageless mind-consciousness, the neshuma.

It could be that Hashem gave us a clue in Psalms 62:10, saying, “Men are mere breath; mortals, illusion; placed on a scale altogether, they weigh even less than a breath.”

אַ֤ךְ ׀ הֶ֥בֶל בְּנֵֽי־אָדָם֮ כָּזָ֢ב בְּנֵ֫י־אִ֥ישׁ בְּמֹאזְנַ֥יִם לַעֲל֑וֹת הֵ֝֗מָּה מֵהֶ֥בֶל יָֽחַד Reply

I definitely agree. Simple is when a user pushes an off/on button that brings connectivity to the entire world through means such as the internet, and perhaps even beyond because there might something out there in the universe monitoring us too! Reply

Becoming That Now I am filled with egoistic desires animated by the smallest light of Nefesh.

During the spiritual process of correcting these beastly desires to become altruistic, we shall be awarded the greater lights of Ruach, Neshama, and Haya.

Then finally we have become the Soul filled with the greatest light, Yechida. We can enjoy this Light without any limits as an altruistic spiritual being.
…… Remember you are not that Soul yet. Reply

Brilliant

Shabbat Shalom Reply

bieng simple difficult to be some one else and forget your true self....for selfhood is infinite process of multiplicities Reply

Being Not That I read this one this morning before work but absolutely could not get it. Thank you for your answer on The Convenient Mind. But I start feeling I do not get the hold of your teaching very well. Reply

being simple that's so deep that does not depend on how observant one might be, on who is your tsadik, on this or that. That's everlasting lesson. Reply

Being Not That Does not make sense. Reply

Retain Memory.. Thank you so much for your explanation of "retain memory, that is not you" I feel suddenly "liberated" You have no idea, during the course of the day I have to be many things to many people. But what I really would like is to be what I am inside "ALL THE TIME" without measure. Thank you again, Rabbi. Reply

Being That...For Paula Dear Anonymous,
Thank you, but I am very young. I have been blessed with 5 grandchildren, ages range from 12-2. I will crawl about with the young ones, as with the older ones we often have books that we read together and then share comments. This does not make one young, although it helps.

Being young is the age of my heart. I was from the age of approximately 40-53, then life was young again. I am very far from stagnation/petrification. In all honesty I am about 180 degrees from the stagnation time of my life. May it never come.

Be well, Reply

For Paula Perhaps you need to become young again. Perhaps deciding you are "that" is the stagnation/petrification of old age. Reply

Being Not That For almost all of my life I wanted "To Be That". I would vision all forms of what I was, truly I was playing the game of "if only" in my mind.

Now at the age of 59 finally I have realized that I am that. Meaning I am what I have been created to be.

Once this was firmly planted into my heart it does not matter that I am "not that" Reply

Being not that What is that? Reply

Retain memory.... Everyday while my son was in camp in N.Y . I emailed "Daily Dose" He said they were uplifting and encouraging. He had a hard 2 weeks of camp (not used to being away) and it was these "simple" doses, just what the Doctor orders, to help one gain back strengh. So I thank you, I do have a question, can you help me understand what you mean when you state: "retain memory thaat you are NOT that. Thank you. Reply

Being not that I had to reflect on that expression. My English does not know any other meaning of it, but the simplest one, simply that I am not simple. We are all such a melting pot of a multitude of fragments, we are not a simple structure to find out of, at all. Than - what a release to be able to - without any effort, rather some kind of submitment - to be simple. That is to experience true blessing. Being blessed is to be simple and trust The Heavenly Father who is Light and Love. G-d bless! Reply