Based on Likutey Moharan I, Lesson #33
"[Tefillin] must be a sign on your arm and a reminder between
your eyes."
(Exodus 13:9)
We all have good days— the days when you feel God's love
automatically. We all have bad days—the days when you think it's
the opposite of love that He is showing you.
Bad days are like "not putting on tefillin," days when you
neglect to bind your actions and thoughts to the awareness that
God, Who cared enough to interrupt history and take us out of
Egypt to deliver us to a new and holy life, is part of your own
personal history and is trying to deliver you from your own
Egypt.
When you are mindful to "put on tefillin" in this manner, you
start to rise above the limitations of immediate experience and
emotion and cut to the chase, the bottom line of love that is
the sweet core of you are experiencing.
agutn Shabbos!
Shabbat Shalom!
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