Daily Thought

There are some who are afraid of a new age. They wonder, “What will happen to my career? My whole lifestyle will have to change! What about all the acquaintances and connections I’ve spent a lifetime building? And what about all my worldly possessions, my retirement plan, my investments? Will they take my car away?”

Even these people have nothing to fear. The Age of Moshiach is not something separate from our times. It is pieced together from everything we do now, and all that we know of shall remain. Only the negativity will vanish, and the G-dliness within each thing will be obvious for us to see.

The material world is a place where each thing seems to say, “Here I am and here I always was”— as though it has no source. In fact, only the Essence of All Things has no source. He was and is and always will be. This is the truth of what our world is trying to tell us: It is only trying to express— in a distorted way— its own true essence, the Essenc

Reprinted from 365 Meditations of the Rebbe by Tzvi Freeman