Ponevezh Yeshiva Sings Chabad Nigunim - 2017

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX_GjlELlXE

True Individuality

  

True Individuality

[Moses told the Jewish people that in contrast to the rebels among them, who had died out,] “all of you who are alive today are [lovingly] attached to God.” Devarim 4:4

One might think that the more we are devoted to G-d, the more our personal individuality disappears. The Torah teaches us here that the opposite is true: Our true individuality depends directly upon the depth of our attachment to G-d. What we normally mistake for our personality is really our secondary, animalistic side. Since we share the same animal drives with the rest of humanity, the personality born of these drives is, at best, a variation on the common theme by which everyone lives. Thus, the apparent individuality of this aspect of our personality is in fact an illusion.

In contrast, since G-d is infinite, the avenues through which His Divinity can manifest itself through us are also infinite; thus, it is only our Divine personality that makes us truly unique. It follows that the more we allow the animalistic side of our personalities to dissolve as we draw closer to D-d, the more we allow our unique, Divine personalities to shine forth.

 

Lubavitcher Rebbe, Daily Wisdom, p. 365

From a letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1977

 

From a letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1977

 

"The most essential point (to put it differently): The doctor's opinion is decisive -- according to Judaic law -- when he speaks as a doctor (based on medical factors or life-saving measures). If, however, he states his opinion as a state official or politician (based on political considerations), that according to his opinion, they (i.e. those political considerations) outweigh and eclipse the medical factors -- this is the opposite of the ruling of the Code of Jewish Law."

kabbalah vs chassidus

 An Analysis of the Authenticity of the Zohar 

By Rabbi Chareidi

The Mekubalim created a cold, calculated and mechanical divine service, whereby their cavvonos were nothing more than reflections on the supposedly intricate divine mechanical processes that the incantations and thoughts were believed to automatically trigger.

The Mekubalim’s books also spend an enormous portion of their volume in activities of dissecting words - particularly divine names - into single and multiple letter components and correlating them with kabalistic terms and processes.

During the lifetime of the Rashbo (though it would seem un-noted by him), appeared the Zohar - the kabalistic theorems are exploded to massive proportions, and gradually, a huge base of kabalistic ideas become canonized.

two quotes

 

for Chabad people to understand you know who

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

― Nikola Tesla

for chabad people to understand themselves

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”

― Plato

Chassidus is the Only Path to Spiritual Fulfillment and Happiness Reb Yoel

 https://drive.protonmail.com/urls/T70Q47ZM6C#FXCXBxzcc5Kx

Dr Ira Weiss

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEe9qP6vGt0