IMPROVEMENT IN OUR THOUGHTS, DEEDS, AND ACTIONS

 

Love, honesty, truthfulness, putting down one's guard and letting love seep in, like the moisture of waters underground feeding the roots of trees, causing the trees to get stronger, to grow taller, to have fuller leaves, to stride upwards to be closer to the Heavens, climbing up trees as a child, Trees of Knowledge, taking classes in Hebrew School, classes that you will remember for a lifetime with a preparation as a child.

Having a second life, being reborn, learning Judaism as an adult, taking Hebrew school classes and studying Torah, but not as a class to complete and then not to study again, but to learn and study over and over again, to study Torah everyday, to make it as important as eating your breakfast, to learn to teach and to perform mitzvoth, to always concentrate on ways to be kinder, to show loving-kindness to your fellow, to do what the commandments tell you to do. To grow into being a person who applies chesed [loving-kindness] to his every deed, and to sprinkle like gold dust, kind words and kind deeds everywhere you go, to everyone you meet.

 

Think to yourself: What kind of a person would the Messiah be like if you were to meet him and to get to know him. And then apply these personality characteristics to your own lifestyle. What if everyone in the world acted like how we imagine the Messiah would act? We do have a mentor, anyone who lives righteously has this Messiah mentor to follow in his words and deeds. There are 613 commandments to follow, and non-Jews can follow 7 Noachide commandments, then indeed if all of us did this, and taught our children to do this, we would have a perfect world. Everyone living in this imperfect world would be perfect, just like a true Messiah, not a messiah who is false, but a real one, for everyone to act just like what the real Messiah would act like.

To know it is impossible for anyone to be perfect, but to strive for perfection, to strive to be like a Chassid is in our reach, to have these characteristics, not necessarily to be a Chassid as in a member of the Chassidic denomination of Judaism, but to assume spiritual improvements that they teach us, to know how to improve and in what direction. How can we improve? Here is an article that gives us a guide: "What Is A Chassid?" that you can read.

What Torah Study teaches us to do is to always improve in our thoughts, deeds and actions.