Short Story: The Balding Rabbi, discovered God's secret. God was going bald too!
@innertalks (22277)
Australia
August 11, 2021 10:26pm CST
Rabbi Anton Brexnev, was getting old, and he noticed that he was getting quite bald on top of his head, but he still had his long beard, of which he was immensely proud of too.
The Rabbi would complain to God about his baldness, and say to God,
"Why me, God?"
God replied,
"I have just looked in my own mirror here in Heaven, and I noticed that I am going a little bald now too."
"Do not worry about your outer appearance, be the you that I created you to be in your heart. Do not have bald tyres on your heart. Always keep your heart freshly renewed."
The Rabbi laughed.
He appreciated God's humour, and he never worried about his balding head again.
He continued to wear his kippah, (A small head-covering, Jews wear, on the tops of their heads) though, which did hide most of his baldness, and so he remained pleased that he was a Jew.
That night though, God again talked to the Rabbi, in his dreams:
"You should not be proud to be a Jew, my son,"
he told him.
"Do not cover your pride with your kippah, but keeper your heart alive in me, without pride, to be anything. Let the tenderest outer spot in you, your bald spot, not take over from the tenderest inner spot in you, your heart."
The Rabbi woke up properly sanctioned.
And although he was still a good Jew, he removed his pride, and upper crustiness about being one then too.
Why, he even cut off his long beard, and so he was no longer proud of that any more either.
Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com
The Rabbi had a kindly soft face, but the top of his head was hard-boiled bald.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
12 Aug 21
Thought-provoking as always.
When we look int he mirror and we see now, do we accept that now is us?
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@innertalks (22277)
• Australia
12 Aug 21
Thanks, Scott.
Not usually. We often think that it is not us, and so we try to change that us of now, to not, the now of us, but to the us of us, whatever, we might think that that is, or might be.
@innertalks (22277)
• Australia
14 Aug 21
@DocAndersen The now is what it is though, whether we recognise it yet now, or not.
The journey is to be more consciously aware of our now, within the greater now of God, and then to realise that both nows are the same now, really now.
@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
13 Aug 21
@innertalks ah the magic might be! could be, would have been!
the now - what we perceive is seldom fully recognized. in our dreams the connected mind, shares what we missed in the now, with us.
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@Deepizzaguy (105944)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
12 Aug 21
I like this story about the rabbi.
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@innertalks (22277)
• Australia
12 Aug 21
Thanks. I had to add that last line, as I suddenly noticed that the picture that I had picked for my article was of a man without a beard...lol...
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@innertalks (22277)
• Australia
12 Aug 21
Yes, thanks, siva.
I like to use humour, even if it is at God's expense, as I feel that he would be the last person to mind that.
His underlings would get more upset about things like that than he ever would.
At least Osho, injected humour into all of his spiritual teachings, and lessons, sometimes irreverently, but always to make his point more strongly felt, by his listeners.
@Shiva49 (26879)
• Singapore
13 Aug 21
@innertalks I like to even indulge in self-deprecating humor but it falls flat at times.
I have seen also some getting offended by harmless humor.
Once I was at a get-together and as an innocent opening volley, I said that we had met after years and can see the signs in our appearances.
Then one said he was still young and much younger than me, obviously irked.
I think laughter is not only a door opener and also the best medicine for our wellness.
Osho's take on religion and lifestyle did offend many but he opened our minds to take a different perspective about our lifestyle. It did ruffle feathers of the entrenched establishment.
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@innertalks (22277)
• Australia
13 Aug 21
@Shiva49 Yes, it is hard to be humorous with the seriously non-humorous types.
I also like to use myself as a butt of the humour too, at times.
I feel it is better to use myself, rather than someone else, unless I know them very, very well already.
