By Ariel Bar Tzadok @
http://www.koshertorah.comSome Words Of Wisdom For All To Contemplate
DEFEND YOURSELVES !! Guard your minds!
You have no idea of the level of assault you face every day.
Bend like a reed in the wind, yet, stand strong as a wall of eternal stones before the onslaught of fiery arrows.
Winds can crack even the mightiest of trees.
Fiery arrows cannot hurt walls of stone.
There is a time to be a tree and a time to be a wall.
DEFEND YOURSELVES !! Guard your minds!
Learn the times, learn how one must act for the moment, for the place.
There is a time and a purpose for all things under Heaven.
We are in the middle of the change of times,
learn when to be a tree and when to be a wall,
for the fire will burn wood, and the wind will shatter the mightiest of walls.
Be the right thing in the right place at the right time.
DEFEND YOURSELVES !! Guard your minds!
And you just may will live to see the other side of redemption.
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“And you will be swiftly removed from upon the good land that G-d gives you.” (Deut. 11:17)
The Ba’al Shem Tov has said, that an individual must always have a calm mind and not act impetuously,
[for when one does act in this way, then he] “will be swiftly removed from upon the good land.”
One [must learn to] swiftly remove impetuousness [rather than be removed because of it. (Ref. SBST, Ekev 62).
The first of all wise sayings attributed to our Sages in Pirkei Avot is “be deliberating in judgment.”
In other words, we should never be quick and impetuous to make decisions that are not well thought out, rational and logical.
Every day we are faced with decisions and every day we often make the wrong decisions simply because we rush to decide.
Sometimes the best decision is no decision, at least for the moment.
The world WILL NOT come to an end if we wait a while before responding to a matter that is not an immanent crises.
This advice might not be for the battlefield… but we do not always live on the battlefield.
Decisions about business, family, expenses and everyday living have to be made based upon the greater and wiser good and not just upon how we feel or how things look at the moment.
Times change and so do feelings. Never make a decision that will affect the future based only on the here and now.
Pause, take a moment, and look towards tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that.
Takes these into consideration today before you make a decision that will affect you negatively tomorrow.
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Everything that we hold dear is exactly what holds us back from experiencing and acquiring true wealth.
We have been falsely educated into attributing value to things that in essence are meaningless.
Everything in this life is transitory at best.
Physical items, emotional attachments, attitudes, beliefs, ideas and philosophies, all of these come and go like a passing wind.
Our attachment to these things creates within us a false sense of security and we seldom let go.
We build around ourselves mighty walls of brick, feelings and ideas, thinking that these will keep us safe from assault.
How foolish and shortsighted we are.
For every new lock that we create, there comes an even better lock pick.
For every better mouse trap we develop there comes a bigger and stronger mouse. This is the way of nature, it is unavoidable.
We protect our homes with all types of security systems and still they are burglarized.
We protect our feelings with all types of emotional walls and we still end up getting hurt.
We protect our ideas and beliefs with all types of arguments and justifications and we still face confusion and contradiction.
We cannot block out, we cannot find security in the insecure, nor can we find stability in the unstable.
It is inevitable and unavoidable.
Whatever goes up must come down and whatever goes down creates an equal and opposite reaction causing it to rise.
In this is summed up all of life and its various movements.
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