“Finding Faith In Difficult Times”
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“Have Faith!” is what people tell us. Doctors today understand the importance of faith from a medical point of view. The mindset of the patient, in whether they have faith in a compassionate Higher Power who is protecting them and will see them through their recovery, or whether they do not have faith, is crucial to their percentages of healing, from a medical point of view. Faith, we today know, literally rewires the neuro-pathways in the mind, creating different chemicals, and unleashes greater powers of our body-cells.
Faith empowers us and embolden us in making financial decisions, being better and higher selves in relationships. Faith also diminishes the primary offender of self-realization, self-actualization, and success in our lives, which is self-doubt.
All this is brought about through faith.
All too often we hear ourselves thinking, “I wish I had his/her faith! I just don’t, regardless of how hard I try…” Ultimately, it seems that this isn’t even a religious matter, but more of a spiritual matter. Meaning, that there are masses of observant people who are following the instructions of their upbringing, but lack tangible faith in a loving and compassionate Higher Power. Maybe, better said as, they have faith that such a Higher Power exists, for others, however, they lack in faith and trust that this same Higher Power is unconditionally loving and compassionate to them, and would be there compassionately and lovingly for them, in their difficult times, or at any time at all.
On the other hand, there are non-observant people, not by rebellion, but simply non-observant, who have a most amazing, powerful, and tangible faith in G-d, and this faith imbues their lives with optimism, love, sense of security, to the point where observing them one says that they are living a most magical life of wonders.
Is this faith, or the lack thereof, hardwired into our brains, and either we truly have it, or we spend our lives faking it, or, can we acquire this faith? And, if so, how?
In this lecture, based on a maamor of the Rebbe in 1978, on Judah being the fourth son of Jacob, we will find where and how to acquire this faith.
