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From: "Michael Ozair" <m_adin@hotmail.com>

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Subject: Words of Chizuk 

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Chevre,

Everybody is now saying the same thing: 

Let's move on. Leave the Rebbe alone!!

While this does not SOLVE anything for us, for our own pain/confusion,

it may be the holiest thing to do right now as his talmidim, as Jews.



I just sat through a terrible sound quality recording I had of R. Shlomo 

in Los Angeles (1985 or 86?) in order to find this one teaching, I felt 

it was general enough that you can take from it whatever may (or may 

not) be helpful at the time in dealing with our current emotionally 

charged situation.



Reb Shlomo speaking:



Sometimes, it pays to be ignorant, 

for the sake of holiness.



If G-d were to show me 

the pile of all my mistakes that I have ever made 

and then handed me a shovel and said, 

"Move that pile from here to there" 

I would say, "Mater of the world, I would be happy to, 

except that I can't.  

It's too big.  It would take me forever. 

I know I said I was willing to serve you, 

but I just don't have the strength".

So what does G-d do?

He treats me like a horse and puts on those blinders 

and He says "Look, this is all you have to do TODAY. 

Only one pile, one shovel." 

And I say, "Of course I can do that, that's not so hard".  

And so I shovel, and I move that pile and then I say, 

"Show me what tomorrow's job is. Because tomorrow's job I will

have the strength to do"



And so if I only see what I need to do today to be holy,

and I stop kvetching about what I need to do every other day,

I then have in my head, the most important way 

of turning my pile of broken pieces

into the greatest fixing.



And so maybe one day I can even wake up feeling mamash strong 

looking at the great mountain of broken pieces and say, "I'll do it!!"

But if I don't have the strength, 

then I could be half way through the mountain and I can lose everything, 

you know?



You see friends, you know what it is?

There are certain times where it's OK 

to fall into Smallness for the sake of Greatness.  

Sometimes you have to play ignorant, 

to do the holy work that needs to be done.









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