Top 26 Baal Shem Tov Quotes
#1. Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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#2. I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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#3. Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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#4. To pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to get dirty.
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#5. Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
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#7. For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
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#8. When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.
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#9. People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.
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#11. There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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#14. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
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#15. From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
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#16. If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
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#17. The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
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#18. We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make
sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
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#19. The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day
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#20. Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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#22. Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
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#23. The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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#24. Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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#25. A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
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#26. Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."
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