We are not passive observers of this universe, but rather partners in its creation. We are the ones who assign each thing its meaning, who bring definition and resolution to an otherwise ambiguous world.
Don’t imagine that you are just “telling it the way it is.” Choose your words, choose your perspective, like a witness on the stand. Because the way you tell it, that is how it is.
A boat that is let off into the sea with no person can find its way in the sea and waves, a boat with a person or some people can be guided, a boat full of people, how can that be guided. Reply
Hello, Rabbi Freeman
The quote "Telling it the way it is" [as the devotion suggest] is delivered from the perspective of the way a person perceive the reality of their environment and the way they want it to be recognized by others [truth or lie].
20 years after the death of the infamous journalist and anchorman Walter Cronkite, this quote brings significant meaning to his sign-off words, "and that's the way it is." His quote signified trustworthiness to truth being told from his frame of references. Contrast that time period to current events being transmitted today, people need to read and listen to broadcast proclaimations [from whatever platform] with a 3rd ear and a discerning spirit from HaShem to derive at factual truths and trustworthiness.
Thank you for this much needed reminder!
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defining your world Emet Reply
The way You tell it, that is the way it is. Wonderful words. Reply
Important notes, R. Freeman
"our word(s) declare a (world) that (appears) to 'breathe with Gody life .. or simply idles itself into oblivion". And so we see the unfoldment of this dynamic, each day .. sometimes mirroring a 'dance of the happy shades' and sometimes refracting the En Sof with breath-taking efficacy ....
His word is powerful beyond our knowing.
And may we have the ethics of knowing just how to proceed ...
that we be blessed to receive the Torah again & enjoy the fuller fruits of MN.
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My sincere condolences
for "losing"Joyce, for in truth her power and light is unlimited now to affect her family and friends, as explained in Tanya.
But, I don't understand what you write in the last line that you do not accept that this was G-D ordaining Joyce's death-if not He than who??
On the contrary, our only comfort that can be is that all comes from Him, the Essence of All Good- and that will ultimately be revealed to us with the coming of our righteous Moshiach- May it be NOW!!
Otherwise, it would be scary to think that we are living in a helter- skelter world at the mercy of random accidents and freaks of nature-don't you think?
j
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Joyce defined her
Three nights ago a dear friend of mine was tragically killed in a car accident out of town (where she had gone to visit the sick), and she will be buried tomorrow.
Joyce and her husband, a rabbi, were totally lovingly Torah involved in family, friends, and greater community Jewish spiritual life.
Joyce "assigned and brought meaning" to everything.
Joyce "defined her world" for life, and declared what "breathed with G*dly life."
We who are left bereft of her love, compassion, chesed and Torah mitzvot, have had NO say in Joyce breathing continued life into the love she would have continued to give to her young grandchildren, children, husband or communities.
Maybe I have been "witness" to Joyce's spiritual and loving life, but surely not one who "determines a matter of life or DEATH." Joyce did not choose death.
I am witness to this loss of life of a pure gentle good neshama. I do not accept that this was G*d ordaining Joyce's death.
In pain and sadness,
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Entirely consistent with quantum physics where the cloud of uncertainty is not resolved into a concrete reality UNTIL THE OBSERVER SEES IT!