Where is God?

Worksheet by Dina Oren
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English
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100
Language
ENG
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Listen from minute 3.22. Fill in the missing words below. Our eyes lock. I never in my life saw eyes… I never saw eyes like the Rebbe's eyes before. He didn't say, I am the Rebbe; he didn't say no. He said, "vos is dayn nommen, un fun vanent bint ihr?- What is your name and where are you from?" I give him my name, I tell him where I'm from, where my parents are from, and I say, "Ich hob a frage - I have a question." He says, "freg- ask." Our eyes are locked. All of a sudden, it's like there's nothing around us. It's just the two of us. It was an incredibly spiritual experience for me. And I asked him, "vu is got- where is God?" And the Rebbe answers me, "umetum- every place." I said, "ich vays – I know. Ober vu – but where?" And he answers again, in Yiddish, "umetum, in altz - In everything, in every place." "in a beym – in a tree, in a shteyn- in a stone." I'm quoting word for word. And I say to the Rebbe, "ich vays, ober vu- I know, but where?" and he said something that really blew me away, so to speak. He said, "in dain hartz, oib dos iz vi du fregst- In your heart, if this is how you are asking." I found that it would be difficult to express myself in philosophical terms in Yiddish. I asked him if I can switch to English, and he said, "Speak in English." Our eyes are still totally locked. I felt like we were transported to another time, to another place, really transcending the physical bounds. And I asked him, "When we say shma Israel hashem elokeinu hashem echad, whether you are a Jew, or a black man, or an Indian, isn't there only one God for all of us?" and the Rebbe answered, "The essence of the black man is to be what he is as a black man, and the essence of the Indian is to be what he is as an Indian, and the essence of the Jew is tied to Hashem Yisborach through Torah and mitzvos." And those for me were very very powerful words. We spoke for approximately fifteen minutes on the steps of 770 on a very, very bitter cold day in January, and he gave me two things to do. One, to learn the Kitzur shulchan Aruch in English, and the other to start putting on teffilin.

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