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Tzvi Freeman

Something is true, we say, when it actually happened in our physical world.

But some events are even more true than that; so true that they are not limited to a certain year in a certain place. Instead, they occur again and again every year, wherever we are.

They are the days we celebrate every year, in a very real way in our physical world.

See Tanya, Igeret Hakodesh 14. Torat Menachem 5752 vol. 1, pg. 255.

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Ron Cohen Arad, Israel March 22, 2023

Haman and Eichmann were hanged and Pharaoh was drowned, leading to ever developing and expanding liberal democracy worldwide. Reply

David Harold Chester Petach Tikva, Israel March 22, 2023

We should celebrate the mere fact of being alive. Reply

Anonymous Tel Aviv April 8, 2024

in response to David Harold Chester:

Baruch Hashem, Ani Noshem...
Thank G-d, I am alive and breathing! Reply

Brenda Toronto, Canada April 5, 2018

Special Times The Jewish holidays represent special milestones in our spiritual ascent.
With each step we climb, we gain greater unity between our souls.
This greater unity draws the Higher force that provides this bond between as.
This Positive Force of Love then spreads to all humanity.
This is our role, to be a 'light unto the nations of the world'.
Subconsciously all know and wait for us to perform our mission to the world.

Our first step is recognized at

'Passover' - we desire to exit our self-love.

.... then we step into the desert. We feel empty from our egoistic pleasures, but need to obtain a new energy to act in love of others. We refrain from using our ego until we acquire the force of love of others.
This ego pause time is 'Chanukkah'.

.... then we do inner spiritual work on correcting our ego that doesn't allow us to connect heart-to-heart, our soul connections. We can then connect our broken hearts to reform the one soul.

.... then we can reach the final correction at Purim. Reply

S U.K. December 27, 2016

True? Truth is not limited to self and ones own physical environment, otherwise we would not be able to learn beyond the self. Reply

Tzvi Freeman December 26, 2016

For Ron Stackler Good question. But then, what makes the solar cycle the definitive year?

The yearly cycle—and how the spiritual energies flow—is defined by Torah. Torah defines a yearly cycle as a synthesis of the lunar and solar cycle. And it puts the power to make that synthesis in the hands of the Jewish People. Reply

Ron Stackler Malibu December 26, 2016

Given the need to account for the solar calendar's having fewer days each year than the solar calendar by adding the Month of Adar II 7 out of each 18 year cycle, what event could occur on the same day each year? Reply

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