B"H Broken & Whole -------------- When you find the Infinite, where will you put it? In your broken vessel? It will not stay. In a new whole one? It will not fit. Let the heart be broken in bitterness for its confines. Let it be whole in the joy of a boundless soul. This is the secret that Man holds over the angels: Only the human heart can be broken and whole at once. A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe -words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman
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B"H On Computers ------------ What is new about the computer? You walk into a room and you see familiar machines: a typewriter, a tape recorder, a television, a telephone, audio speakers, of course a calculator --but none of these are new. Unseen, however, beneath the floors and behind the walls, are cables connecting all these machines to work together as one. There is digital technology that allows them to all speak the same language -thereby transforming them from many ordinary machines into a single powerful computer. Now, lets take your own life. You do business, you study, you eat, you talk --each activity seemingly irrelevant to the next. A mess of fragments. And such, too, is the native psyche of the human being: We have minds that understand one way, hearts that feels another --and what we do has often nothing to do with either of those. Take the technology of the computer and apply it in terms of your everyday life: Find a common meaning at which all these fragments conv
Kabbalah on Dreams DREAM STATES Life is but a dream. Literally, according to the Zohar! Kabbalah considers our physical world an illusion, a temporary residence, and not true reality. Our world of morning mochaccinos and evening rush hour traffic jams is just one of many dream worlds and dimensions that separate us from the ultimate reality. These other dimensions are accessible in a variety of ways, one of which is through the dream state. THE PURPOSE OF SLEEP When the sun is set and the stars spatter the heavens, part of our soul leaves our body. Even if we remain awake, part of the soul still departs, which is one reason why we begin to feel more tired and drained as night unfolds. During actual sleep, the Zohar explains that 59 of 60 parts of our soul have now left the body, leaving only 1/60 to sustain us physically. When the body is in slumber, the chains of physical existence are suddenly broken. The soul is now free to ascend to a high place in the spiritual atmosphere where it
OLBERMANN HITS ANOTHER ONE OUT OF THE PARK! OLBERMANN: Yesterday at a fundraiser for an Arizona Congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, "177 of the opposition party said 'You know, we don't think we ought to be listening to the conversations of terrorists." The hell they did. 177 Democrats opposed the President's seizure of another part of the Constitution*. Not even the White House press office could actually name a single Democrat who had ever said the government shouldn't be listening to the conversations of terrorists. President Bush hears… what he wants. Tuesday, at another fundraiser in California, he had said "Democrats take a law enforcement approach to terrorism. That means America will wait until we're attacked again before we respond." Mr. Bush fabricated that, too. And evidently he has begun to fancy himself as a mind-reader. "If you listen closely to some of the leaders of the Democratic Party," the President said at another