Words From The Wise

Awe of Hashem:

“Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine. … to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.”

Hashem as a logical supposition:

“God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."

WHOA!

Tefilla:

"The focus of prayer is not the self…. It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, which constitute the art of prayer…. Thus, in beseeching Him for bread, there is one instant, at least, in which our mind is directed neither to our hunger nor to food, but to His mercy. This instant is prayer. We start with a personal concern and live to feel the utmost.”

WOW!

Live Eternity:

"The greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The call for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there is no cry for eternal life prior for our descending to the grave. Eternity is not perpetual future but perpetual presence. He has planted in us the seed of eternal life. The world to come is not ONLY a hereafter but also a herenow.”

The sins of man:

“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”

“Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.”

OPEN YOUR HEARTS SWEETEST FRIENDS - THROW AWAY ALL IDOLS [tv, dvd, radio, today's paper, Sports Illustrated, your cellphone] AND LET THE WORDS PENETRATE THE CORE OF YOUR SOUL!!

Love and blessings:):)!!

The latest in Torah from my VERY good friend Ally Ehrman, here.