Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Death of King Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian emperor who conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the first Holy Temple 26 years earlier, died on the 25th of Adar of the year 3364 from creation. (Jeremiah 52:31)

Rebbetzin Chaya Mushkah Schneerson (1901-1988) of righteous memory, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe of righteous memory, was born on Shabbat, the 25th of Adar, in Babinovich, a town near the Russian city of Lubavitch, in the year 5661 from creation (1901). In an address delivered on the 25 of Adar of 1988 (the Rebbetzin's 87th birthday, and about a month after her passing), the Rebbe initiated an international birthday campaign, urging people to celebrate their birthdays and utilize the day as a time of introspection and making resolutions involving an increase in good deeds.

Links:
A biography of the Rebbetzin
On the Jewish Birthday and the birthday customs

Meditate upon a ray of light that pierces through the window on a sunny day. Now imagine how that ray exists engulfed within its source, the sun.

Think of the entire universe as a stream of conscious thought. Imagine that thought in its place of conception, a place before words, before thoughts, a place where there is only One.

Our minds do not allow us to see this stream of divine energy, never mind its source. Instead, we see objects, things, a world.

But if our eyes were allowed to see and our minds permitted to grasp, we would gaze in utter astonishment at a world emerging into being at every moment out of the utter void.