Making a Blessing

"There’s a story told about a Hasid (a Hasid means a follower of a Rabbi, mentor, or spiritual leader who is commonly called a Rebbe) who went to his Rebbe prior to Bar Mitzvah at thirteen. He asked the Rebbe to give him spiritual direction. The Rebbe told the young boy that every time he made a blessing — before he ate, or whatever — he was to think to whom he was making the blessing. That was in the 1840’s or 50’s. Some seventy, eighty years later, people who traveled the many miles to meet this man who had become so spiritually great would ask him, ‘What made you so spiritually sensitive?’ The holy man would reply, ‘I listened to the words of the Rebbe when he told me as a child that whenever I make a blessing to God I should think who I am making that blessing to,"’ Rabbi Eliezrie smiled.

Being Lifted Up  

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