All our philosophy is meant only to achieve some sort of grasp of what a small child means when he prays to G‑d.
But we can't.
As soon as we grasp, it is gone.
Shabbat Toldot 5752.
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February 18, 2018
This is, I think, the meaning of Chapter 1 of Tanya. Stop trying to BE __[fill in the blank], and just do what you need to...
If I'm trying to be a tzaddik/ona high level of righeousness, then I am disincluding myself by virtue of my very existence as someone trying to be something, whereas in reality the highest state is not of someone who is but someone who simply does like a servant...
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O. Turcotte
Cambridge, MA
March 5, 2017
Difference between Faith & Belief Faith is ungraspable; belief makes for good philosophy. Reply
Anonymous
March 5, 2017
Perhaps
Perhaps try not to grasp;
if you are a vessel
and fill that vessel with a desire to grasp
that which you would like to grasp
does not have enough room anymore in the vessel
cause it's filled with desire.
A child doesn't try to grasp you; he just holds you
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