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Ohr Tmimim — Tzav 5783

Выпуск: Ohr Tmimim — Tzav 5783. Темы: не определены автоматически. The Baal Shem Tov explained it like this: “A continual fire should burn on the Altar, it shall not be extinguished” If “A continual fire”, (a constant burning desire to serve HaShem,) “burns on the Altar” (should always burn in your mind and heart). He found a long thick rope somewhere in the camp, attached it, first to the outside of one building about ten feet above the ground and then stretched it to another building about fifteen yards away and attached it there at the same height. In other words, the sentence is telling us the message of the tightrope walker; if we constantly have our minds and hearts on the goal; to want to see G-d revealed here in the world (as He was when the world was first created, at Mt. Sinai, in the Holy Temple, and will be in the days of Moshiach) then we won’t fall: our desire will automatically extinguish all the bad and negative forces not only in our personalities but eventually in the entire world!! Rav Mendel didn’t believe him because he couldn’t imagine why a person would waste his time walking on a rope and risk falling on his head, when he could just walk on the ground like everyone else. Rabbi Mendel spent several years of his life at hard labor in a Russian Concentration camp, but, being a Chassid, he tried to learn from everything he heard or saw, how to serve HaShem better. But when the evil Stalin died and the government eased up the pressure on the camps, some of the inmates decided to make a celebration and the tightrope walker saw his chance to prove himself. ‘Well Rabbi, what do you think now?’ “I told him I was impressed, but I couldn’t help wondering how he did it, how could he walk on such a thin rope without falling off? He told me to guess and I threw out a few suggestions until finally he revealed the secret: ‘I always keep an eye on where I’m going and never even think about falling’. Rav Mendel was one of the first to get interested, and he explained what happened: “First he climbed up onto the rope, took a few steps, lost his balance and fell.

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Ohr Tmimim

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29 марта 2023 г.

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