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I’ve been pondering the idea of time a lot recently and have found that it’s actually extremely hard to actually live in the present. It’s nearly impossible. Like you said on this article, the present is such an intangible thing. I believe that because of this, it’s hard for our minds to handle actually living in the present and therefore we’re constantly thinking about the past or the future.
Looking back, even the moments I thought I was living in the present, I was always waiting for the next moment. Weather it was waiting for tomorrow because today was boring, or waiting for the next minute because this minute is boring.
However there are some moments I truly enjoy, for example being in the car with music on. But am I living in the present? Perhaps not, for I am always anticipating the next song. Perhaps not, for although I don’t want the car drive to end I know that at some point it will and I’ll have to let go of this incredible feeling. Reply

I am also knowing another way to understand now and timelessness from a saying my rabbi always used to say, "G-d is here, G-d is there, G-d is really everywhere".

So if G-d is everywhere then time is meaningless because it takes no time to go anywhere He already is.

Honestly, I was knowing nothing until I threw my lot in with the G-d of Israel. Now I am knowing secrets worth knowing.

Thank you Rabbi. Reply

I did not consider this aspect before reading those words. I suddenly felt a warmth and understanding. Thank you for bringing me closer to G-D. Reply

Where is this letter printed? Dear Rabbi Freeman,
I would like to read this letter in its original format.
Please send me the source.
Thank you

Mendy Reply

This is a wonderful passage of time, of before and now bringing worlds to connect together even if you do not understand them, Only time connects them, only time will tell. When you are here, but you not and you still know you are regardless of where one is at at this present time. Reply

Now I feel the movement of the time. I see the end in the beginning, and in the midst of change I sense temporal eternity of being. Reply

NOW by Tzvi Freeman Dear Rabbi Freeman,
Thank you for this wonderful insight "NOW", and the many meditations about it.

Many of us live in a busy, busy race to achieve everything on time. Many years ago there was a stage play "STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF". A musical with Joel Gray. Well, at the time the play was running, the idea was that life in general was picking up speed, and for some people it was hard to cope with.

So, NOW by Tzvi Freeman, if we learn to focus on the moment we are in, in the NOW, we can catch our breath and gain a new perspective.

i used a trick to do this to quiet my mind in order to fall asleep. i closed my eyes and in my mind's eye i pictured a page from a book with words in sentences on the page. Then you imagine that the SPACE between each word becomes even wider. keep imagining the words getting farrer apart, and the spaces getting wider. When you are able to see in your minds eye only the SPACE and no words
then you are in the NOW. Reply

How can one grasp the now by both ends? It would not have ends.It would be circular with no starting or finishing point. Once this is understood,it will be now. Reply

Rabbi Freeman So, if God is the "Now", how do you have a relationship with God? Isn't this Pantheism?

I read your two other articles on Pantheism but they don't answer the question. My question is, in Likutey Torah and elsewhere it always states (as in this article) that God is "Reality", the "Now", well, how do you have a "relationship" with the "Now"? Is the "Now" conscious?

Thanks. Reply

In Spanish the verb to be is translated into two words: ser / estar. One denotes the state of being and the other the state of being somewhere. When I think of the name of G-d I like to take the second: being somewhere. He is always here with me. What do you think? Reply

NOW by Tzvi Freeman NOW can be less than a moment, it can be a nanosecond, but all together it is part of the continuum of Time, a cycle, a circle.

i came across this in the waiting room of a dr. office:
""Accept your past without regret
Handle you present with confidence
And face your future without fear."" Reply

shkoiah Tzvi wow
what a message for the new beginning of Torah reading.
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Rabbi Tzvi, you rock! It is in Him that we live and move and have our Being
Love ya,
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NOW by Tzvi Freeman this is very beautiful. thank you Rabbi Freeman.

my comment is that now is the nexus point. it holds the past and connects us to the future. it is the paste that holds the past and connects us to the future, so that if we don't like our past and feel we want to change it, so that we can have a brighter future, we have to start now, right now, in this moment--NOW!!! Reply

Tsidkenu Dear Rabbi Freeman:

What a beautiful exultation to G_d because G_d is infinite and cannot be measured by time yet G_d is always omnipresent and known to us. Exalted be He! Reply

What a joy to be part of a secret. What a joy to be part of a secret.
I enjoy whenever a secret is revealed to me. Especially those ones that enhance my relationship to G-d. Thanks for sharing. Reply

This is so beautiful, I want to read it over and over again. Thank you. Reply