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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.

Baal Shem Tov

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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Father Son Taken
A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
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Clean Guilty May
Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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Heaven Stories Thrones
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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Accomplishment Common Understanding
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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Loses Losing Yourself
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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Neighbor Roots Unity
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Redemption Remembrance Secret
From every human being there rises a light.
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Being There Humans Light
There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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God Men Rooms
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.
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Hero might Weakness
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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Believe Creation Prayer
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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Feelings Gratitude World
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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Mean Opportunity People
To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
He who is full of joy is full of love.
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Build Joy Light
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship

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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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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