Saturday, June 21, 2014

Blood vs. Frogs, Which is worse?

In Lku"s the Rebbe says that kaltkeit is worse then a varemkeit for bad things as it easier co-opted and returned to the good.
I find that many people who have trouble believing in G-d have very heightened sense of wrong and right and are not easily convinced by intellectual answers and their status is really a cry for wanting a perfect world. So too with people who are apathetic, I find with myself it can be a response to being burned in one's hopes and the fear to get hurt once again. But underneath it all is a fire waiting to bust out.
So even though kaltkeit is worse the potential for greater heights is ever present. And this falls in line with the principle of Kol HaGvoah beYoser etc.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Simcha & Breslov

I recently watched a video of Breslov Chassidim stopped in middle of a street in Chevron and dancing with soldiers who were in middle of a break from searching for the kidnapped youths. I was thinking that it is good to raise the spirits of people who might be down. Then another thought crossed my mind, we constantly need to be b'simcha even during mrirus and certainly when performing a mitzvah and certainly when performing such a special mitzvah.

Soul & Body

A member of our Talmud Class mentioned an interesting idea recently. In Soviet Russia they would prove that the soul doesn't exist. How would they do it? they would present a study to the class that showed that the weight of a body after death is exactly the same as before death. Hence, even though ostensibly the soul left the body and there should be a weight loss the lack of weight loss proves that the soul doesn't exist!

A USB memory card that has an encyclopedia on its hard drive and then it is erased weighs exactly the same.