If the Bible didn’t show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
BAAL SHEM TOVEverybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
More Baal Shem Tov Quotes
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For my sake, the entire world was created.
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We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
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The world is new to us every morning – and every man should believe he is reborn each day
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If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.
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I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
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Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering – you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
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Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
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Everything above and below is one unity.
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Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.
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