When you look outside, what do you see? The market, wagons, horses, people running in all directions.? Fifty years from now the market will be completely different, with different horses and wagons, different merchandise and different people. I won't be here and you won't be here. Then let me ask you now: How come you are so busy and preoccupied that you don't even have time to look up at the sky? -Kochvey Ohr
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Fruit
The Lubavitcer Rebbe said that man can live very well on bread, meat, vegetables, etc. However, one thing will be missing; sweetness! Therefore G-d gave us fruit to enjoy. (The rabbis of the Talmud state that one will be rebuked in the Heavenly court for each fruit that he abstained from enjoying.)
He said the same is with Judaism. One may study Tanach, Talmud, Halachah, but lack the sweetness. One needs to pursue those Torah studies that inspire and make sweet, along with the "basic nutrition" of those aspects that make up the framework of our actions.
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