The Best-Est, Cont’d

As was said in the last post, your quest to be the best (est) starts with “Love your fellow as yourself”.  In order to properly “love your fellow”, you have to love yourself first.  What fellow wants you to love them as yourself, if you don’t love yourself?

To love yourself begins with internalizing through constantly reminding yourself of the words of the Grandfather, “No one ever was or ever will be made just like you.  You are a gift and have a gift.  G-d gave you life and gave us you for a very, very special reason”.

In other words, you matter.  You are not just matter, it’s you that matters.

You are here on purpose for a purpose.  While you may not know your specific purpose, know this, It’s to do good by doing a good.  So by endeavoring to always do good, you will accomplish your specific purpose sooner or later.  You will accomplish it even though you may not know it.  That’s okay because you’re doing good and that’s all that matters.

Always doing good by doing a good is like shooting an arrow at a target with a very large bullseye.  Every good done is a bullseye.

The more good you do, the more you will love yourself, and be truly able to love your fellow.

Then you will be the Best-Est you.  You will love being you.

When the great Rabbi Zusha was on his deathbed, He was surrounded by family, friends, and students. They saw him crying and asked if he was crying because he feared death. He explained that he wasn’t afraid of dying. He was afraid that when he died and met G-d, he wouldn’t be asked why he wasn’t more like Moses or Abraham; he would be asked why he wasn’t more like Zusha.

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