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Date Posted: 19:22:32 10/18/12 Thu
Author: d
Subject: fb235

B"H

The Dream
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You build a dream house.

You start with a dream. The dream becomes a plan. The plan becomes a
lot of dirty work. The dirty work becomes a house. If you are
successful,
it is the house of your dreams.

Dream, plan, dirty work, success. Why is this the fundamental
strategy
of all human endeavor? Because it is the story of the universe.

Those who can feel the dream, those who can read the plan, they see
we
are now at the finishing touches.





A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman
Tevet 24, 5766 * January 24, 2006


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B"H

Kislev 20, 5766 * December 21, 2005

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P L E A S E T E L L M E W H A T T H E R E B B E S A I D
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Parshas Veyeishev
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Do you dream in your sleep? Many people do. Sometimes we dream about
important things. But often, we forget our dreams when we wake up.
Sometimes, we might not even remember that we dreamt at all. But when
a
Tzaddik, a righteous man, has a dream — and especially when that
dream is
mentioned in the Torah — the dream holds a lesson for us.

Let's take a closer look at Yosef's first dream and compare it to
Pharaoh's dreams, which we will read about next week. In his dream,
Pharaoh
is a bystander, watching what happens to the cows and the corn
stalks.
He's not doing anything himself.

Yosef's dream begins with activity. "Behold, we are standing in the
fields gathering bundles of sheaves." A Jew is always busy. "Man was
created for work," our Rabbis teach us. HaShem has made us His
partners in
Creation and has instructed us to make this world a home for Him.

What type of work must we perform? Yosef's dream also teaches us a
lesson about that. What are Yosef and his brothers doing in the
dream? They
are gathering stalks of grain and bundling them together. Each stalk
grows separately, but Yosef and his brothers bring them together.

The world around us appears to be full of separate things, and we
don't
always see a connection between them. But everything is really part
of
HaShem's oneness. It is our job to show that there really is Achdus
in
everything HaShem created; His holiness is found in every part of
creation. That's why the Jewish people are called "One nation in the
world."
Through the Torah and its mitzvos, we bring out the oneness of the
world.

At the end of Yosef's dream, all the bundles of grain bow down to his
bundle. In every generation, there is a Jewish leader who tells
people
how to carry out the mission of revealing Achdus in this world. The
strength to carry out this mission comes from bittul, giving
ourselves over
to the leader's guidance and following his instructions on how to
carry
out HaShem' s will.

(Adapted from Likkutei Sichos, Vol. III, Parshas Vayeishev)

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