Daily Chabad

Why Can't We Celebrate Love Everyday

Why can’t we celebrate love every day?
After all, nothing makes us happier than loving others and being loved, so why not nurture it and enjoy it each day of the year? As a scientist and Kabbalist, I learned that the key to a meaningful life is giving and receiving. The trick is that both need to be carried out with a feeling of connection, unity, and love. Without giving and receiving through love, life would not be possible; it is how we are all created.
Nature acts this way on every level of reality, but we humans often forget it and focus on hatred and denial of the other rather than on love and embracing of each other. These days the world is filled with hatred, intolerance, and xenophobia. But embracing the differences between us make us stronger, agile, open to ideas, and generally more alive. If we could find a way to always live that way, every day, humanity would be happy.

– Dr. Michael Laitman

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Why are you afraid? Why do you panic?

Eagerly and with purpose, your soul plunged downward to live in an earthly realm,
to enwrap herself in a body of flesh and blood.

What emboldened her? What drew her to squeeze her unbounded light
into the straitjacket of time and space?

It was neither fear, nor dread, nor panic.
It was the knowledge that here below
is a beauty the highest of angels cannot touch.

Care for yourself, for your family, for your fellow human beings and our lovely planet earth,
not out of fear, nor from distress,

but out of love and awe
for the beauty within
that we came to uncover.

 

— Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

Daily Chabad … On The Sung Un-Hero

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Your most heroic acts are those of which you may not even be aware.

Like the time you could have gotten even with the guy in the next cubicle, and nobody would have known. And you really wanted to. But you didn’t, just because it’s not right.

You may not have been impressed—you may even have been disappointed with yourself. But the angels burst into song, as all your world rose up a notch. It may have been the most elevating act of a lifetime.

Heroic acts are not heroic if they’re second nature. It’s when you break out of your nature that you enter the realm of the divine.

Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

 

Daily Chabad

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The mind will always find the answer most convenient for the mind.

A philosopher will find an answer that favors philosophers. A scientist will find an answer that favors science. A spiritual seeker will find an answer that satisfies his need to seek spirituality. Even the greatest mind will rest only where there remains room to be a mind.

That is why a simple good deed can carry the mind to a place it could never reach on its own—beyond its very need to exist.

Do truth, and you will find truth.

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Once you have found the meaning of life, will there be enough life left to live meaningfully?

Better to live life as meaningfully as you know how, and find more meaning as you go along. You will gain, and so will those you influence.

From a letter to a teacher who wanted to take off time from teaching to find the meaning of life.

Lost In Translation?

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Catch 22 the 4 defeats the 9 then 6 so the 7, 8ight, 9, 3 is free & the 1 wins. 7=king 4=Queen. 7-4-4-7 wins = El-even El-even = Chann-El of El-ectricity , Trav-El , direct-LE from the El-Ohim. M-El Chi Ze Dek, Auri-El , El-Olam El-Shadai , El-Elyon , El-Roi , El- Kavod , Emmanu-El , Orac-LE , Ari-El , Adi-El , Barachi-El , Chi-El, Micha-El , Uri-El , Gabri-El , Rapha- El. Kadosh kadosh kadosh Adonai.

Daily Chabad … Only You

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All this universe was made only for your journey. And all this universe was made only for the other guy’s journey. And for mine as well.

In our mind it is impossible. We are finite. When we put our minds to one idea, there is no room for any other. If one point is at the center, there is no center left for any other.

But G‑d is infinite. He can have as many points of focus as He wishes without diminishing the centrality of any of them in the slightest.

Each one of us is absolutely the most important thing in the universe.

From The Zohar – Rule Four—Everything Depends On The Desire

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We know what tremendous efforts babies are required to make to take their first steps in life, how diligently they exert for it, never giving up, trying time and time again until they succeed. We, too, must persist with the study of The Zohar patiently and diligently until we begin to “walk” on our own two feet and discover the spiritual world. The system required for our progress has been prepared in advance, and all that is required is that we provide the great desire to attain it.

~ Let There Be Light
Selected excerpts from The Book of Zohar

From The Zohar – Rule Three—The Light In It Reforms: Seek The Light

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We often hear about The Zohar having a special quality, known as Segula. Segula is the natural law of development operating within all of life’s forces. It is not a mystical, imaginary power.

Kabbalists explain that our material world is dominated entirely by the egoistic desire to exploit others, while the spiritual world is dominated by the intention to give and to love. Therefore, we have been given a special means by which to tie those two opposite worlds together, that is, to make our own qualities similar to the quality of love and giving that governs the spiritual world. That special means is called “the light that reforms.”

The light affects us during the reading in a manner we cannot currently perceive, and this is why we call it Segula(Remedy), or “miracle.” But for Kabbalists, who already perceive the spiritual world, there are no miracles at all here, but a completely natural process. All that we must do, they stress, is read The Book of Zohar and wish for the power within it to affect us during the study. Gradually, we will begin to feel a change developing within us. This will be the reforming effect of the light. Then the spiritual world will open and what seemed to us as a Segula, a miracle, will become a clear and vivid natural law.

~Let There Be Light
Selected excerpts from The Book of Zohar

From The Zohar – Rule Two—Man Is A Small World: Interpreting The Words Correctly

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The Book of Zohar contains many descriptions and terms that we know from our world, such as sea, mountains, trees, flowers, animals, people, and road trips. Keep in mind that all the details, characters, and events mentioned in the book do not speak of the world around us, but only of what unfolds within us. Therefore, while reading The Zohar, we should interpret the words within it as expressions of what happens within us, in our souls. We should see the text as a bridge that leads to our deepest qualities and desires.

~Let There Be Light,
Selected excerpts from The Book of Zohar

From The Zohar — Rule One—The Heart Understands: Do Not Study With Your Intellect

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The Book of Zohar should be studied with the heart, by feeling and wanting. Unlike ordinary forms of study, which rely on processing information and analyses of data, with The Zohar, the approach is fundamentally different. The study of The Zohar is intended to invoke internal transformations, to qualify us to perceiving the hidden reality.

The student’s success depends solely on the extent of our desire to discover and feel that reality. For this reason, there is no need for any prior knowledge, skills, or special talents for the study of The Zohar. All that is required is to have a genuine desire to open one’s eyes and heart to a broad new world.

~ Let There Be Light
Selected excerpts from The Book of Zohar

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If every blade of grass and every speeding electron is directed with meaning and purpose by the One who created them, all the more so your thoughts and decisions. You only need to put aside your own self-interest, resolve to do the right thing, and His holy hand guides you on the right path.

This is what confidence in G‑d is all about: A conviction that since He is the essence of good, therefore all things are for the good—the obvious good. Including your own sincere decisions.

If so, what are you worried about? Why are you confused? Even when your own mind determines what to do and how—even then He is there.

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It contains verses from Psalm 61 and 91, the priestly blessing, King Solomon’s Seals and letter combinations of “72 names of God.”

Here is the translation of the Hebrew texts:
Psalms 61:
I long to dwell in your tent forever
and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.’
Psalms 91:
no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
The priestly blessing:
“The LORD bless you
and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”
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Daily Chabad … Harmony

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This is the advantage we human beings have over the other mammals: Their brain and heart are on a single plane, but we stand erect, living in two planes at once.

We have a mind above, looking up to the stars, and from there all things begin. We have a heart below, pumping life into the mind’s vision and drawing it into the real world.

When their roles are lost, mind and heart become a marriage from hell. When they work in harmony, nothing can stand in their way.