Priorities"You are saying there is tremendous insight? Would that be fair?" He tried to explain. "I’ll take it a step further. You look at the world around us and you see the physical. Judaism tells us — and in Hasidic philosophy we emphasize the idea — that the physical is only an extension of the spiritual. The story is told about one of the great Hasidic masters in the last days he was alive. He said, ‘I don’t see the physical wall. I can only see the spirituality in the wall.’ "Another story is told about Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi. He was sitting and praying and he was saying, ‘I don’t want this, I don’t want that, all I want is God himself.’ "You develop a proper sense of priorities. You realize what is primary, what is important and what is not important. You have the realization that the essence of this world is really spiritual and that the physical only hides the true qualities of the world." |
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