There are dark jewels in this world that can be salvaged, purified and taken as precious bounty for the good.
And there is darkness itself, the absence of light, that must only wait its time to expire.
How can we tell between them?
If the darkness fights back, there is hope.
It means there is something there worth fighting for.
The essence of Hashem lives within the souls of each us and therefore we can not lie to our subconscious. The knower, seer and hearer of all has built in a natural defense mechanism for darkness and that is the glimmer of light within each soul. But we must first light the wick to fight the evil of darkness within the soul. Reply
Beautiful. Lighting the Menorah for the soul. Reply
When Darkness Figtht Back I am trying to understand this concept. I understand darkness as evil thoughts, deed, etc. but it fighting back, I cannot grasp. I have been through a lot of experiences where I get evil in return for "good", which I sort of call it, to the point of almost finding myself lost in my dreams after these experiences. Especially with my family and love ones. I do not understand what I sm doing wrong. I pray to Hashem to reveal to me the truth, He often speaks to me in my dreams, but the symbols He gives me I often do not understand. I seek His councel constantly, and He is so good to me; but maybe I am like the horse who needs brittles to guide me. I ask for that too. I just want to be with Him. I cannot deal with the world, my family any longer. I seek refuge in His word and guidance. I am called a "fanatic" by my family. I decided to just leave them and continue on my my of Torah and Mitzvot. failing but I have chosen His ways, and the world leave behind. I am wrong? Rabbi help. Reply
The precipice of a Vacuum Right now the asistant living Facility situation that I am living in is getting wise to the lecturing I do to a bunch of invisible individuals in my room which helps my writing , drawing and even helps my painting when I do it because it airs out the past and what has happened to me-but they are not in the same place with it as I am and want to hospitalize me which means an oversaturalization of drugs and 50% less of my glorious glorious work-including Judaism and the comments and reading the great articles which has brought me closer to G-d and closer to my Art actually-but each day I find they don't drag me in quite yet so in my darkness this darkness does in fact fight back to give me more each time there is a wrestling match with it. Reply
Read Isaiah 9 : 2 & 6 About people walking in darkness with no idea how to embrace the Light and find hope, even when they see the light they runaway, reject and ignore light with hope, for their own comforts sakes. Reply
Shkoyiach!
Powerful!
When he says:
"If the darkness fights back, there is hope. It means there is something there worth fighting for."
He is referring to our yetzer hara (evil inclination)...his job is to make us lose our focus... His focus however is on the most important things...the strongest urges are usually the ones we have to work on, if the yetzer is giving it importance...where ever there is holiness is were his focus lies...
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darkness fighting Eternal 'light' is always worth fighting for. Reply
How true Thank you for sharing! Reply
Darkness with Hope As cosmology defines the ultimate darkness to be a black hole, which definately fights back, what do the philosophers consider the ultimate light by comparison? As the iniverserve was considered to explode from a minute entity and is ever growing then the light is also ever glowing in its presence. Reply
Darkness is weakness and can't fight back ! Light exposes darkness, so darkness becomes helpless, with no defenses, only manifesting absolute guilt for hiding the silent & concealed truth. Reply
darkness exists only because it is necessary to single out those worthy of a place known as heaven, this is all by design, (hard to imagine,) those who seek the ways of darkness (fight against themselves and topple over one another as well as those who they prey upon that are pushed toward the light, when ever darkness fights, it fights with an unrelenting vengence even though it is with greater fault it seeks to win at any cost, when darkness seems to resist or appears hesitant, or even reluctant, it is merely a lost sheep unsure of what to believe or what direction to go and usually sides with its self, darkness is stubborn and unrelenting and it seeks to impose its corrupt confusing ways upon others (though its lost,) by its very corrupt nature it seeks to convince the world it is just and it the light, but it is light that never forces its ways upon anyone, it welcomes only those who seeks it with the 'freewill' they have been given, it sets out its instructions but twists no arms Reply
Darkness with hope.
"If the darkness fights back, there is hope.
It means there is something there worth fighting for."
NOT NECESSARILY.
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Darkness with Hope As I read this, I thought about some of my acquaintanceswho argue with me regarding Orthodox Judaism. It is clear to me that if the darkness that fights back is within a fellow Jew, that means that the Pintle Yid within him/her is fighting to emerge. Reply
The “darkness” in this world stems from the illusion that we humans are separate entities with our own will to do what we want to do. It is true that we can choose between various pairs of opposites, which choices cause happiness or misery in the end. The inner aspect of all this is a dead-end walk based on ignorance of anything else.
As for the “Light”, the only source is the will of the Creator, because He is the only Doer there is. Everything else is mere chaos. So those in the darkness just try whatever they can think of to force their lives to get whatever they think they want; of course that constantly varies. As they develop their understanding, their darkness dims behind some inner light, until they themselves are fully lit.
So to let go and make room for the will of the Creator is what we call Emuna. Our fears disappear, and we go free.