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Is Life Beautiful?

You Can Choose to Stare at the Thorns Or Gaze at the Roses

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Is Life Beautiful?- You Can Choose to Stare at the Thorns Or Gaze at the Roses

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Shoshana -11 years ago
inspiring shiur
Thanks for a timely message. This 5-minute presentation had more impact than an hour-long shiur.
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chani -12 years ago
reference
Where can i find this letter of the Rebbe? Please find it and let me know? This is so beautiful!
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  Anonymous -12 years ago
  Re: reference
  Igros Kodesh vol. 20 letter 7486
  
  http://www.chabadlibrary.or... />
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    Anonymous -12 years ago
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    thank you very much Rabbi Jacobson
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Mehdi Abrach -14 years ago
Refreshing
I have watched this four times and it's always a refreshing message!

L'Chaim!

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David -14 years ago
Return of animal sacrifice?
@David Yosef Yonah

Do you really believe that idolatry and animal sacrifice is the strongest urge? Do you have the urge to roast animals for Hashem? I certainly don't and don't know anyone who does.

You say perhaps we need to bring back the slaughter and that will lead Jews to want to connect more with Hashem. I know many Jews who would be turned off Judaism for life if national animal sacrifice was reinstituted.

Here is a quote from Leviticus 5:8 about how the doves should be sacrificed:

'He is to wring its head from its neck, not severing it completely, and is to sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar; the rest of the blood must be drained out at the base of the altar."

This seems quite primitive and absurd. Does sacrificing and burning an animal on an altar have any beneficial effect for anyone? What could ritual slaughter like this have to do with an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving Creator?

In relation to the temple, do you seriously believe the muslims will be inspired to be more peaceful by a big Jewish temple built above their mosques? It is a nice vision of religious harmony but it seems extremely naive.
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CARMELA -14 years ago
THE STRONG, THE WEAK AND G-D
B''H
IN RESPONSE TO MERCY ON DOVES:
BY OBSERVATION OF NATURE,WE TRY HELPING OURSELVES TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND G-D.WE ARE ABLE ONLY TO A CERTAIN DEGREE,AND BEYOND THAT- WE JUST HAVE TO ACCEPT...
THE WORLD AND LIFE WERE CREATED IN A HIRARCHY, IN SIZE,IN STRENGTH,IN IMPORTANCE
ETC.PARTIALLY MAY BE SO, TO ENABLE US TO HAVE PREFERENCES AND MAKE CHOICES.
ALL SEPARATIONS ARE PART OF G-DS' UNITY AND EQUALITY THAT WILL COME FORTH AND BE REVEALED AFTER WE DO OUR SHARE OF WORK IN US AND IN THE WORLD,AND MESSIAH WILL BE HERE.
FOR THE TIME BEING,CREATION HAS 4 LEVELS THAT CORRESPOND TO THE 4 LETTERS OF G-DS' HOLIEST UNSPOKEN NAME:YUD HEY VAV HEY.
THE 4 CATEGORIES IN CREATION ARE STONES,FLOWERS,ANIMALS AND HUMANS - WHICH ALL HAVE SOULS! EACH OF THESE HAS
A LIVING ENERGY IN THEM (SCIENCE IS JUST FINDING OUT MANY THINGS OUR FOREFATHERS KNEW THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO).
EACH CREATIONS' ENERGY ,HAS ITS OWN CHARACHTERISTIC RESONANCE
VIBRATION AND QUALITY.
WHEN WE EAT OR SACRIFICE A CERTAIN CREATURE,ITS ENERGYS' QUALITY IS ABSORBED AND ASSIMILATED WITHIN US,BECOMES AN INTEGRAL PART OF US.MEANING: WE ACQUIRE ITS ENERGY QUALITIES.
THEREFORE WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO EAT WHAT ISN'T KOSHER NEITHER TO SACRIFICE IT.WE ARE TO EMPOWER THE YOUNG,WHOLE,PURE ONES.IN HEBREW ''TAMIM'' HAS THREE MEANINGS:WHOLE, WITHOUT ANY DEFECTS,(DESCRIBING SACRIFICE IN TORAH), STRAIGHT AND HONEST (DESCRIBING THE TRUE BELIEVER IN G-D),AND NAIVE IN CONVERSATIONAL LANGUAGE.
SO WE CAN NOT SACRIFICE THE ''BAD'' HARMING ANIMALS, NEITHER EAT THEM.
WE ARE TO KEEP THE PURITY OF OUR SOULS BY OBSERVING THE PURITY OF OUR BODIES.NOT CONTAMINATING OURSELVES WITH ''BAD'' ENERGIES BUT BEING PARTICULAR ABOUT WHAT WE EAT,SEE AND HEAR...!!!
ALL CREATION WAS CREATED TO SERVE THE HUMAN - THAT IS THE REASON HE WAS CREATED THE LAST.AND WE WERE CREATED TO SERVE G-D AND BE PURE AS HE IS. JUST AS EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK WAS CREATED FOR THE SAKE OF SHABAT, A PROGRESSIVE PROCESS TO REACH THE PURPOSE - THE PUREST.
CARMELA, ISRAEL
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