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Hate can only come from ego which usually is a bit or very delusional…
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The final Jewish law in the greatest composium of all the Jewish laws effectively says – and it describes the time that we are in and barreling towards – that when Moshiach come, G-d will give us abundance. And there will be neither war nor strife, nor jealousy, for all the delights of the world will be available as dust, and therefore, the sole quest of man will be to know G-d.
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The end of the day there are only 3 possibilities.
The first is we come to life with desire.
This, of course, can be in 1 of 2 ways, the first is seeking pleasure or honor – the other is seeking relief from pain or shame – either way, both are inadequate as a system of living.
But the highest truth is we realize that we are all creations of a Creator, and every moment is a moment which the Ceator made for us to learn from, thereby, as we individually grow, so do we collectively. -
We can operate in 1 of 2 ways.
The first is I want… This is the essence of evil.
The second is what should I want -
The thing to remember about G-d is that He is not to the exclusion of all realities. He is to the inclusion, but not to the inclusion like the foolish left think that whatever we think must go – as long as it’s not conservative😃.
“We must include everyone, even those who hate or wish to kill.”
It’s really just an emotional soup of random emotions – without any intelligence to create order discipline, sanity. And hence, like all movements based on emotions it will dissipate. All civilizations die for their emotions get the better of them. Rather, the goal of life is that everything through using Divine wisdom can be made better. -
So the story of life is an absolutely amazing one, because the Rebbe Rashab writes that the ultimate goal of Torah and Mitzvos is like a shopkeeper.. he doesn’t really care what he sells, he just wants to profit. And the profit of Judaism, which is what makes it a unique religion is that we’re not focused on philosophy, we are focused on obedience.
And the benefit of that is that each and every of us has an ego, and a soul, and thoughts and emotions. Now, to the extent that the soul is dominating our thoughts and emotions is the extent that we will be good – to the extent that our ego is, is the extent of the reverse.
And we have to have an ego, a sense of self, a pride, a drive.
So how do we balance the ego, it’s like a child, you want your child to have desire.
But if all they do is tell you what to do, they will destroy you and themselves; I like to say the ego is like the fire in the car – you need gas to drive, but if your fire is out of control oy vey – That is obedience.
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