BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

An interesting article on good vs. bad, the value of pain and suffering and our constant need for the support and love of Hashem in our lives. Article is a good reminder to make meaning of pain, both emotional & physical, in our lives - B. by Rabbi Yitzchok Kirzner When "bad things happen to good people," by what standard does one define "bad"? J udaism begins with the belief in a Creator of the entire universe. The history of our people commences with Avraham's question, "Who created the world?" (cf. Bereishis Rabbah 39:1). That question led him to the recognition of God as the Creator. God existed prior to Creation, and that Creation remains dependent upon Him. Creation came into being as an expression of His will and is dependent on Him; it continues to exist only by virtue of a continued infusion of His creative energy. This is stated in the first of the Thirteen Principles of Faith based on Maimonides: "The Creator, Blessed is...

Did G-d Create Evil? By Aron Moss -------------------- Question: Did G-d create evil? Surely G-d made everything. So although it is people who actually do evil, it was G-d who must have created the idea of evil. But if G-d is good, how could He create evil? Answer: Here's the paradox: Goodness exists because G-d desired it; evil exists because G-d doesn't want it. If a human wants something, but doesn't actually do anything about it, nothing happens. You may want a piece of cake, but a cake will not materialize unless someone bakes it. But when you're a Divine Being, your desires create reality. With G-d, just wanting something makes it exist. After all, He is all-powerful; if He wants it, what can possibly stop it from being? He wanted a world, so it was. He wanted goodness, so it was. Now the same applies to G-d not wanting something: it too becomes reality. If G-d decides He doesn't want something, then that decision itself makes that thing exist. G-d's all-...

FINDING G*D IN THE DETAILS Have you ever been excited about an idea, a project, or a goal, so excited that you felt like you could reach out and touch it - only to find that when you try to bring it into actuality the whole thing breaks down? It’s a common experience. In it’s pure ungrounded form, in your imagination, the vision can look vastly inspiring and easy to achieve. But when you try to bring it into reality, manifest it in all the myriad and fragmented details of your life, more often than not you find that there are lots of obstacles along the way. Shattered, shattered Love and hope and sex and dreams Are still surviving on the street Look at me, I'm in tatters! I'm a shattered Shattered This is the stage that, as the saying goes, separates the men from the boys. The easiest thing to do at this point is to give up, to stay with your old habitual ways of being that may not be ultimately fulfilling but are, at least, comfortably familiar. But, if you make up your min...

B"H ------------- Man sees a tree and the tree says, "I am here, I was here, and I am nothing more but a thing that is here." Man ponders and answers, "No! I give you a name! You are 'tree'! You have beauty and you have a soul. You point upwards and you say, 'There is something higher, there is the One who gives me life and gives me my very being.'" And so Man goes on, until he has brought the whole of creation down on its knees. Man alone can accomplish what the angels cannot. Man alone can discover the spiritual within the material. A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe -words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JBLOG ME