Nothing Higher

By Tzvi Freeman

There are things you fix by doing the right thing with them. Those carry your soul high.

There are things you fix by not doing the wrong thing with them. Those carry your soul higher than high.

There are things you fix up because you did the wrong thing with them, and then you regretted that with all your heart and you turned your life around. Those carry your soul high beyond imagination.

Yet all this is speaking of things that have some reality of their own, and perhaps even some means by which they could be used for good—only that you may or may not have used them that way.

There are, however, things in this world that are only evil, whose entire being is but to oppose all that is good—to strike fear, to cause despair, to be darkness. To deny reality.

And so, in your denial of their reality, in your refusal to show them fear, to provide them any ounce of credibility, they dissipate into the nothingness they truly are.

Those carry your soul to its very core and being. And yet higher.

Maamar Natata Lirei'echa Neis 5736.

By Tzvi Freeman

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. Subscribe and get your dose daily. To order Rabbi Freeman's latest book, Wisdom to Heal the Earth, click here.

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