Response to “Unsure”
Dear "Unsure",
You are torturing yourself unnecessarily. As a fifteen year-old, why would you expect to ‘know for sure’ all the truths of Torah? How are you supposed to ‘know’ who created the world?!
You don’t how an airplane flies or how an antibiotic works. You’ve never seen a germ or a virus, and probably don’t know where your spleen is or what it looks like. Does any of this matter? No, you live your life based on knowledge received from the past without need to reinvent the wheel.
G-d created the world and gave the Torah on Mt. Sinai unless you have witnesses to the contrary.
The best and wisest minds among our sages, every one of them smarter than Einstein, studied the Talmud for three thousand years without doubt of its origin and you are not sure!
So you feel guilty as if you are responsible to prove or confirm cosmic truths! Get real. Relax. It’s not your job. Your job is to elevate yourself to a more productive, noble, respectful life every day.
Work on that. I guarantee you won’t regret it!
You are torturing yourself unnecessarily. As a fifteen year-old, why would you expect to ‘know for sure’ all the truths of Torah? How are you supposed to ‘know’ who created the world?!
You don’t how an airplane flies or how an antibiotic works. You’ve never seen a germ or a virus, and probably don’t know where your spleen is or what it looks like. Does any of this matter? No, you live your life based on knowledge received from the past without need to reinvent the wheel.
G-d created the world and gave the Torah on Mt. Sinai unless you have witnesses to the contrary.
The best and wisest minds among our sages, every one of them smarter than Einstein, studied the Talmud for three thousand years without doubt of its origin and you are not sure!
So you feel guilty as if you are responsible to prove or confirm cosmic truths! Get real. Relax. It’s not your job. Your job is to elevate yourself to a more productive, noble, respectful life every day.
Work on that. I guarantee you won’t regret it!
posted by Scruz | 6:56 PM
2 Comments:
Rabbi-
This is separate from the blog you wrote above...
I am in college (finishing up 2nd year) and my motivation here is weakening. Every day I am distracted. I am distracted because I read your blogs, go to chabad.org, read something from the Rebbe, listen to your CDs... or whatever will give me inspiration and understanding.
What I learn in school is usually dry and not truthful. I decided to finish up school and then study in Israel but I dont know how I am going to hold off for two years when I know where truth lies. How do you suggest I balance my life and bring motivation into my secondary studies? I didnt tell you that I am studying child development and much of what I learn is value base and thats why its so difficult. If you could please let me know of some positive ways to deal with this...
thanks--
Hi Anonymous.
The rabbi asked that you please send a private email to yf@ebold.com.
We'll take it from there...
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