The World at Your Feet

Why are the lives of the sages filled with miracles?

Because they open their minds to truth and labor over it day and night. They are the awakened mind of the cosmos—through them the Infinite Light enters this world.

So, of course, nature bows to them, the angels wait upon them, and everything is arranged to serve their mission.

And so it is with any one of us who seeks the truth and clings to it with heart and soul.

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By Tzvi Freeman

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. Subscribe and get your dose daily. To order Rabbi Freeman’s latest book, Wisdom to Heal the Earth, click here.

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Alice Sood Torrance March 15, 2016

Thank you for this "awakening of mind" dose of wisdom.
Has come like a tap on the shoulder, so as to awaken and remind.
'open mind in truth labor with heart and soul to deserve dear God's help.
Precious! Reply

Brenda Toronto, Canada March 15, 2016

The World Above Your Mind The sages had the desire to rise above their nature which is a mind that calculates how to satisfy your self in this world and detaches you from care of others.

This desire attracts His Light to raise them above their ordinary egoistic logic.

That is the miracle the Rebbe is referring to - with each miracle they come closer to the divine quality of g_odliness. Reply

annie livingston Iselin, NJ March 15, 2016

If each of us could add the goodness that is gifted in us, and add to each other; this truly is a team of angels on earth. Annie Livingston, blessings to all, amen Reply

Anonymous Mesa, AZ March 15, 2016

The World At Your Feet Yes, seek and you shall find, ask, and it shall be given to you. This is the continuation of our beloved Torah, and its teachings. G-d given grace for all those who seek truth which is only given through Him. Believing in our Creator, appreciating all things given from Him to us, freely, the whole world will be at our feet. Blessed is He, the giver of life! B"H Reply

Anonymous Toronto March 14, 2011

Beauty Dear Honourable Rabbi Freeman:

This is such a Beautiful Idea! You have such delicacy and refinement of soul!!!!

Thank you so much for sharing your inner being!!!!! Reply

Simcha Brooklyn, NY January 27, 2009

Agreed, Cecilia. I was challenging Mr. Freeman with the conflicting ideas he posts in the Daily Dose titled "Miraculous Failure." If you have read that post, then you may see it conflicts with "The World at Your Feet." One suggests G-d does not give out an "open miracle" as Mr. Freeman terms it, which seems to imply miracles are hard to come by, and the other post suggests that the intention in striving for the Truth through Torah causes miracles to simply happen, as it supposedly did with the sages. I discern an inconsistency. Reply

cecilia NYC January 27, 2009

Easy, Simcha? The condition of a miracle is that it arrives in difficult and almost impossible circumstances.
The path to G-d (as I understand it) is one of constant difficult choices.You make the impossible choice thinking a big sacrifice has to be made, and like Abraham, in the end, you do not have to make it, because a ram is stuck in the bushes and you are able to do what G-d asks of you. You do not have to be a sage to understand this. Miracles are not rewards, they are relief from the impossibility of being human attempting to do a divine task. Reply

Simcha January 26, 2009

but in the previous daily dose you state that G-d doesn't just give out "open miracles" as you term them; that they aren't so easy to come by. That even G-d has to bow to the cosmic rules G-d put into place to maintain order. G-d follows nature's forces which G-d created. Hence, wouldn't being rewarded for yearning so hard for Truth be an "open miracle"? I don't think life is ever that easy. even for the sages. Reply

cecilia New York January 26, 2009

You have turned dawn into full blaze of morning Dear Rabbi,

Having moved to New York recently, I cannot help but feel the desperation in the air. It is an infectious kind of desperation and one that will convince you if you do not become mindful that it is an illusion.

Studying the Torah taught me that desperation is a stirring of the spirit that knows no place to turn. It seeks movement away from something and not towards the soul. When the inward explodes outward into full expression, the truth becomes expressed in daily life and daily life becomes one miracle after another.

I sometimes feel that the words in Daily Dose are my miracles. Like markers in my journey inward into its outward expression, the words that you send me tells me, yes! The Torah is alive in me.

G-d Bless You for you have found your void and chose to fill it with G-d's light, and so you are able to help people like me in the outskirts to find ours too. Reply

Michal January 26, 2009

The world at your feet Dear Rabbi Freeman,
I am far from being one of the sages, but G-d’s love to us apparently is so great, that He gives the same presents to simple people like me. Every time I finish prayers or reading Torah or Psalms I press the book on my forehead, asking G-d to fill me with His Holy words, so that I can be a lamp, which brings light to the others around me. And I realize that miracles happen. G-d hears every prayer, although He decides how they are answered.
It is wonderful to be Jewish, to be one of His "only" and "most loved children". Blessed be He!
I am not sure if this should be printed...
All the best, Reply

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