The truth not eureka
By zevi770 · December 23, 2012
In life we are very very conflicted, you see we often get caught up in the high, while forgetting about the truth.
You see, eureka; as Aristotle said – probably because he felt this – “there is no greater pleasure than intellectualism.”
Many of us, are not necessarily all that moral, but we enjoy astronomy, biology, we are fascinated by scientific fact and the same may apply to our fascination with the mystical dimensions, how miracles can occur, etc. etc.
If there ever was a man, who eschewed this fallacy, it was the Lubavitcher Rebbe!
By far, the Rebbe was perhaps the greatest Kabbalist, mystic of all time, who traversed into heaven, regularly conversed with his father-in-law who had passed on, and many many other well know phenomena, which were witnessed by many, and the miracles coming from his blessings are too countless to catch, but the point is, he wasn’t a mystic, he wasn’t a Kabbalist, nor was he a miracle worker, for he believed in the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, he was quite simply as we say about Mosses, the servant of God.
He knew what God wanted from him, very much to his chagrin; for by nature he was a very very private man, yet he undertook to educate a generation, ravished both by the loss of faith and the loss of belief that both the holocaust and a secular scientific worldview had pervaded his generation.
He taught with unconditional love, never with admonishment, for this too was how God desired he should be, in fact, what is most unique about the Rebbe is he was not innovative, though his keen mind had an ability for infinite innovation, he was a collector, more accurately, he was a redactor, who simply seeked the life lessons from all those preceding him in the Torah and Rebbes and put it into practice!
His most famous line, “action is the ultimate objective.”
While he could have meditated, levitated, whatever; he was a man who dealt with literally hundreds of thousands of people, who was not involved with the highest, rather with the lowest; whose fatherly love, was not for the presidents, for the rich and famous, but for the paupers, for the special needs, for those who were lost and forgotten, in short he fulfilled the prime act of Godliness, namely goodness and kindness!