In her letter to
the Rebbe, a woman used the term ‘Orthodox Judaism.’
In his response, the Rebbe wrote:
“I must point out to you that splitting
Judaism into ‘orthodox, conservative, and reform’ is a purely artificial
division, for all Jews share one and the same Torah given by the One and same
God. While there are more observant Jews and less observant ones, to tack on a
label does not change the reality that we are all one.” (Excerpt from "Seeds
of Wisdom").
Posted by Living Torah.
THE STORIES OF THE
TZADDIKIM
(sincerity, humility,
trust and faith in HaShem)
Why are their
devotions to HaShem and all the details, practices, trips reported?
And it's still
reported what their disciples were doing and what they weren't doing according
to what the master was teaching, why?
And nowadays, should
we behave by "imitating" these perform?
Of course, the answer
is a big Yes.
What they made of
Torah learning, Partnership between fellows, Mitzvot, Tzedakah, and Acts of
Kindness was a fruitful endeavor.
Reporting our
achievements, our defeats, our strengths, our weaknesses, our Emunah and
Bitachon in HaShem we can break the Yetzer Hara (our arrogance, depression,
laziness, temptations) because we are being sincere, humble and showing our
trust in the Holy One Blessed be He.
Gilson Sasson.
