Quotes 5: Self Made Man

I subscribe to a Daily Dose By Zvi Freeman, a very intelligent and insightful author on the Chabad.org website (subscribe here). Here is a beautiful quote that I received today which I thought I would share with you. Enjoy

Self Made Man
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The atheist, too, has a god, and it is himself.

The idolater at least understands there is something greater than him, something beyond the grasp of his physical senses, some external forces to which he is subject.

But for the atheist, all the universe is defined by his own understanding, all ethics are subject to his approval and even he himself is an artifact of his own mind. He is a self-made man, for he creates his own universe and squeezes himself inside it.

A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman
Shevat 25, 5766 * February 23, 2006

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