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Accept the world at its face value and it won't let you move forward. Every impulse must be bridled, every step carefully balanced  -and even then, for every step forward, you fall back two. You are enslaved within an Egypt but it is of your own making, so you have the key to get out! Here is your route of escape: Meditate deeply upon the inner soul of the world; struggle to see the vision described by our teachers. Part the murky waters of a coarse, material world; enter the reality that lies beneath it; let that be your path from bondage. Grasp that inner vision and it will flow outward through the heart to the conscious self, down to the heel that steps upon the earth, until all these, as well, become mind. Your eyes are now open, your heart is awake, your hands themselves know what to grab and what to avoid, as your feet know where to walk. In the struggle for deeper vision, life becomes effortless. You are free.  Menachem Mend...

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So here’s my challenge to you: invite the fifth son to your Passover Seder! In the course of the Passover seder we discuss the "Four Sons" and the questions they pose, from the "Wise Son" who wants to know all of the particulars of Passover observances, to the "Wicked Son" who challenges and mocks them. There is a "Simple Son" who simply asks "What's this?" There is even a son who is there but us not engaged enough to care to ask. Modern society has had an impact upon the Jewish people: today we have yet another son. The son who does not even attend a seder. Yes, it is true. There are many Jews out there who are not going to attend a seder this Passover. They can be put into three basic categories: 1) They have no place to attend. 2) They do not care to attend. 3) They do not know of Passover or its seder. I challenge you to find the language and open heart to invite them in and make the passover seder the most edifying and ...

Test Your Brain This is really cool.  Count every "F" in the following text: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.....  (SEE BELOW) HOW MANY 'F's? Count them again.      WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.. READ IT AGAIN ! Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 'F's before you scroll down. The reasoning behind this is further down.     The brain cannot process "OF". F INISHED F ILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OFSCIENTI F IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OFYEARS.....  Incredible or what?  Anyone who counts all 6 'F's on the first go is a genius. " Three is normal,four is quite rare. Oy vey...

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G-d's name is not mentioned in the megillah scroll of Purim because it all looked so natural. Politics, connections, persuasion and schemes etc but behind it all G-d was guiding and putting all the right pieces in place. Isn't that the story of our lives? Look at your life, how much of it (in retrospect at least) can you now see as having been guided from Above? Menachem Mendel Bluming

An open miracle is somewhat of a disappointment for G d. Once all is said and done, He got His way only by ignoring the norms of this world He created—by breaking His own rules. If He can only perform miracles by bullying Nature, He may as well concede that our world is a place where He does not belong... So He also makes another sort of miracle—the sort that blends seamlessly into the order of things below. These are impossible miracles: They break no rules, but change everything. In truth, they are the most awesome of miracles—these that reveal the Infinite unrestrained within the finite nature of everyday things. Chabad.org and Menachem Mendel Bluming