To be focused and to live purposefully, we must think. Think till we know everything we could know. We live our lives on crumbs of knowledge. So we're flaky. We do things randomly and regret them 3 seconds later.
Therefore we should think. For instance when we study Torah and we understand to the best of our ability, our G-dly soul comes out in its full potential and we become a man of purpose.
I look into the eyes of Zalman Moshe Yitzchaki, in the pictures. The first time I saw him I saw a Russian peasant, a wild man. When I looked again I saw in his eyes purpose. He lived on purpose and everything he did was on purpose. I think that comes through thorough thinking.
This is my understanding why in the beginning of chapter 4 of Tanya the Alter Rebbe says to be able to understand as much as your capable of understanding in Torah, as an explanation for thought not intellect.
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Yossi,
How do you explain his “wild” look? Isn’t that a contradiction to thoughtfulness? Or does being thoughtful put you in touch with a higher realty, leaving you detached from the social norms of this world?
If I may, I would like to rephrase your point. Thoughtfulness is not the goal. The goal is the revelation of the soul. The more and the deeper you think, as opposed to just “blindly” following your eyes, the more the soul can express itself.
Yossi,
for the sake of order please lable this post as 'Tanya'.
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