The Daily Boost #757

One little word makes all the difference

Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash

Consider the words of this Hasidic tale:

A disciple asks the rebbe: “Why does Torah tell us to ‘place these words upon your hearts’? Why does it not tell us to place these holy words in our hearts?” The rebbe answers: “It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in.”

(My thanks to the Hasidic storytellers, via

Parker J. Palmer

and Awakin.org.)

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