Reb Zusia

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Yes, I agree with you, Valke2. Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim
is an excellent source.
There is also The Hasidic Anthology by Louis I. Newman,
and the copy that I have is dated 1934. I prefer Buber’s work.
It states on the back cover that Buber spent 40 years collecting the stories of the Hasidim.

There is also a wonderful book, written for children,
called A Legend of the Lamed-vavnik. A tale of
one of the 36 righteous ones who somehow keep
the world going.

reen
 
Yes, Valke2, I agree with you. Buber’s work is an
excellent source. Apparently Buber spent 40 years
collecting the Hasidic stories.
There is also Louis I. Newman’s The Hasidic Anthology.
The copy that I purchased was printed in 1934.

There is also a lovely story for children entitled
You Never Know A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks
by Prose. It is a tale of one of the 36 Lamed-vanik,
righteous ones who somehow keep the world going.

reen12
 
Yes, Valke2, I agree with you. Buber’s work is an
excellent source. Apparently Buber spent 40 years
collecting the Hasidic stories.
There is also Louis I. Newman’s The Hasidic Anthology.
The copy that I purchased was printed in 1934.

There is also a lovely story for children entitled
You Never Know A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks
by Prose. It is a tale of one of the 36 Lamed-vanik,
righteous ones who somehow keep the world going.

reen12
 
Yes, Valke2, I agree with you. Buber’s work is an
excellent source. Apparently Buber spent 40 years
collecting the Hasidic stories.

abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Tales+of+the+Hasidim

There is also Louis I. Newman’s The Hasidic Anthology.
The copy that I purchased was printed in 1934.

abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=0&tn=The+Hasidic+Anthology&x=0

There is also a lovely story for children entitled
You Never Know A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks
by Prose. It is a tale of one of the 36 Lamed-vanik,
righteous ones who somehow keep the world going.

abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=12&tn=You+Never+Know+A+legend&x=61&sortby=2

reen12
 
The brothers Reb Elimelech and Reb Zusia disagreed on how best to approach the service of Hashem. Reb Elimelech claimed that on the contemplation of the greatness of G-od one would come to a recognition of his own insignificance, while Reb Zusia held that to contemplate one’s own insignificance would bring one to an appreciation of the magnificence of the Master of the
Universe.

The brothers went to vist a holy teacher who stated that - while both of the brothers were correct, that it is wiser to begin with the consideration of one’s own insignificance, for this was a more salutary route.
For by considering one’s own insignificance to begin with,
one could not “fall from the ground.”

He surely was a wise teacher, Rabbi Dov Baer, who followed next - in the line drawn from the Ba’al Shem Tov, the “Master of the Good Name,” the founder of the Hasidism, Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer [1698-1760.]
I find that there is much to learn from the Hasidic masters
about the love of G-d, and I am grateful to Him for placing
them in our midst - so that we may learn from these holy
men of G-d through a consideration of the tales told of them.



reen12
 
For by considering one’s own insignificance to begin with,
one could not “fall from the ground.”

Oh that one smacked me in the forehead!

I think i resemble that comments reality.

I do enjoy these stories Reen.

Lana
 
quote: reen, from a tale of Reb Zusia and his brother
For by considering one’s own insignificance to begin with,
one could not “fall from the ground.”

quote: Rammy
Oh that one smacked me in the forehead!

I think i resemble that comments reality.

I do enjoy these stories Reen.
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I had two thoughts on this, Lana. I considered how
Saul was literally! thrown down from his “high horse”
on the road to Damascus. And I wondered if Saul
could only hear Jesus when he had both feet on the
ground. humus]

The other thought. If, as I assume, the word “humility”
is based, lexically, on the Latin “humus” = earth, ground, soil,
then this is surely related to Dov Baer saying that one
could not “fall from the ground.”
And if G-d created Adam from the “dust” it all works
together, somehow. Of earth thou art, man, and to
earth thou shalt return.
Additionally, G-d told Adam to “till the earth.”

The ancients made much ado about “earth, air, fire and
water.”
Each of these entities is to be found in religious ritual. And it
is my thought that - were “religion” to return to the symbols
and images that G-d Himself gave us in Scripture - that this
would be - as Zusia would say - This, too, is for the good.
To turn from dessicated theological “speculation” back
to the beautiful imagery provided by G-d and His Son.

reen
 
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