What I would like my last will to look like

Dear Family and friends,

 

Life as you have noticed is not about you – I think we all make this mistake.

 

Depending if you are a firstborn, so you bore the brunt of your parents expectations, a second born, so you bore the brunt of your older siblings resentment of bearing the brunt of the parents expectation, or even that coveted third to last born status, when you get to believe all is beautiful – the bottom line is we are creations on a mission.

 

In the words of Velvel Green, a NASA scientist who would postulate what would happen if we sent people to mars – “well off to mars we go,” and in the next few hundred years it takes to get there the children of those original sacrificial heroic astronauts say “why are we doing this, lets head back to earth.”

 

Are we not the children of astronaut heroes – for you and I to live today as Jews literally hundreds of millions of souls gave their lives for Judaism, for freedom; how many world wars were fought to preserve sanity and against sanity – our very existence is a testament to our mission.

 

As such we must never forget, that no modern how modern the age – and every age really believes itself to be the modern age – and considering all the advancements made in society AKA technology, every few months in the future will be a new age, hence the very definition of modern will be a thing of the past, as it will have no meaning in the preset (then;) so no matter how advanced we believe we are, every generation has an old fashioned prophet, a man of extraordinary mental acuity with literally Divine inspiration and in our generation this is of course the great and loved Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn the leader of world Jewry whose message is one – best summed up in his reply to CNN, for his messages to the world – the messiah is on his way, we need to add in the realm of goodness and kindness.

 

So we must study Torah, for it – as he teaches us, lifts above the fog clouds that pretend to be real life i.e. the quagmire of our culture and western materialism – into the sublime infinite realm of Divine possibilities where as in Einstein’s words, “there are only two ways to live life one as if everything is a miracle the other as nothing is” and hence we perceive the imminent possibility of a new world order based on the resurrection of the previous saints (as it states that when the messiah will come all the Tzaddikm will first be resurrected, the messiah among them,) and a miraculous free flight for all Jews to Israel and the rebuilding of the third temple and a time where the messiah will share his wisdom to an eager world searching for truth, namely ours.

 

But the bottom line is, as the greatest codifier of Jewish law states – this torah will never be changed – and hence the Rebbe’s final words are even more important, namely, life is a challenge to overcome our selfishness and even our selflessness, to always ADD in the REALM OF GOODNESS AND KINDESS.