Terumah – 5752 – quotes from the Rebbe
By zevi770 · February 11, 2018
BE HAPPY
The Mitzvah to be happy is a continuous one.
BE HAPPY
Being joyous is a general and most fundamental part of being Jewish (Avodas Hashem.)
BE HAPPY
The Rambam writes, that being joyous over your good fortune to have been both commanded by God and fulfilling his will, is a very great thing.
TRUE MIRACLE
A true miracle is not one that breaks the bounds of nature – rather it is when the natural, itself, becomes a better self.
TRUE MIRACLE
There are three kinds of miracles – the first is like Passover, in which such a great light comes that darkness is banished – the second is like Purim that the negative (the same king who previously wished to annihilate the Jews) becomes a friend (now he decided to help etc. – finally the ideal is when we have both the infinite light within the natural.
GOD’S LOVE
As we know it was God’s desire for his will to dwell within man- but for this to happen – though there is of-course the Divine revelation (of his will) nonetheless, the first step must come from man (this is like, though in a relationship, a female most often desires that a male should be her husband, and when he does fall in love she will be devoted, nonetheless she awaits him.)
GOD’S LOVE
The main purpose of the Mishkan was the dwelling of G-d within the world – and the entire purpose of this was / is the dwelling of God within man (which in fact is a higher level (than in the Mishkan.))
GOD’S HOME
By becoming a dwelling for Hashem (God, which mainly occurs during prayer) we bring God into ourselves; then into our family, and then into the world, which causes Moshiach.
CHARITY
We must (when possible) not only give ten percent to charity, but twenty, and ideally everything.
NO FEAR
In the final moments of exile, God erases all negative occurrences – there is absolutely no reason to have any fear (it is remarkable, considering the Rebbe wrote this a while ago and it is apropos now -particularly considering that the foes from Iran is literally the same Purim region.)
NO FEAR – MOSHIACH
Not only is there nothing to fear – but as in the Purim story, the Jewish people were elevated in the land – “the fear of them fell on their enemies” – and as the prophecy, “the gentiles will bring the Jews on their shoulders to Israel.”