The Chai Times #61 // Chanukah is around the corner
Dec 09, 2022 10:58 pm
Think:
Praying in advance of his impending confrontation with his estranged twin, Esau, Jacob says:
The meaning of this is that every kindness bestowed by G‑d upon a person should cause him to be exceedingly humble. For in bestowing kindness G‑d is literally bringing the person closer to Himself. And the closer a person is to G‑d, the greater the humility this should evoke in him, for since “all before Him are considered as nothing,” the more “before Him” a person is, the more “as nothing” does he perceive himself to be.
This is the manner of Jacob. The very opposite is the case in the contrasting realm of ego. There, the greater the kindness shown a person, the more he grows in arrogance and self-satisfaction.
From the Tanya, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad movement.
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