Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Rebbe Knows Us ... More Than We Think!

Hi everyone!
If this gets published it'll be a miracle but we all believe in miracles, right?
So here goes...
I came across this paragraph in a sicha i thought was sooo powerful i had to share it. twas a sicha on parshas noach and the Rebbe was talking about how we too have the avodah of going "into the teivah" to protect us from the mabul.

To preface i'm gonna summarize a little of the sicha:
The teivah refers the the "teivos" (words) of learning and davening, and the mabul is anything that takes a person away from that. The mabul came from two directions: above and below, and it refers to gashmius things that distract a person (parnassa, etc.) and ruchnius things such as being involved in tzorchei tzibbur or andere zachin. both are part of the mabul when they take you away from learning.
Anyway so the sicha then spoke about how when we get up in the morning we right away say brachos thanking Hashem for all the regular things we have every day... we wake up, we get dressed, we wear shoes, we stand up and check ur local siddur for the rest. so why are we thanking Hashem every day?

The answer is because we are supposed to look at life in a ruchnius way, when the only thing that is for sure is that Hashem exists. from that perspective, all gashmius does not exist, and so neither do our clothes or our shoes... so we thank Hashem that we get them. It's like the Rabbi that used to ask Hashem to give him food when the food was already placed before him... the first thing we know is Hashem... gashmius is only a maybe if Hashem wants.


So that's where the powerful paragraph came in. it said how when someone has the wrong perspective chas vesholom, then it affects his performance of mitzvos too. for him, gashmius (including his tayvos and his desires altogether) is what's most important and so while he is going through the day, his attitude is, as the Rebbe says, "what's allowed is for sure allowed... and what i'm not positive is not allowed... is probably allowed tooo!"
and here we are thinking no one knows how we cheat around things!
Think about it!!! the Rebbe knows exactly what's going on!

And then the sicha contrasts this with the chassidishe way: "what we can't do, we can't do... and what we can do... we don't need to do!!"

Food for thought. please share urs.

1 comment:

cmbc said...

hey hey hey!!
Newsflash form CH!!
i've been waitn for u guyz to post since u left to sem!!!

but the news is that we just learbed this in mrs. lipskers class!! but i still luv the chazzarah!!

luv, ur #1 fan