Mente
A mente é campo de batalha espiritual. A Bíblia nos chama a renovar o entendimento, pensar com sabedoria e buscar a mente de Cristo em todas as áreas da vida.
Amar a Deus com a mente
O maior mandamento inclui amar a Deus com toda a mente. A vida intelectual deve ser consagrada ao Senhor.
And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave this teshuva (answer) to the Baal Torah, V’AHAVTAH ES ADONOI ELOHEICHA B’CHOL LEVAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA UVECHOL MODECHA (And thou shalt love the L-rd thy G-d with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might).
Place your machshavot (thoughts) above (in Shomayim), not on the things of the Olam Hazeh.
Therefore, fier zich (comport oneself) in your derech with a careful walk, not as kesilim (fools) but as chachamim (wise ones), Redeeming the time, because the yamim are ra’im.
For I say to all who are among you through the chesed (unmerited favor, grace) given to me, that you should avoid a false sense of superiority in your thinking; rather exercise shlitah atzmi (self-control), thinking with seichel, as G-d has measured to each a measure of emunah.
Sabedoria e discernimento
A sabedoria é melhor que rubis. Quem a encontra, encontra a vida. A mente sábia discerne, planeja e previne erros.
Ashrei (happy) is the man that findeth chochmah,
and the man that getteth tevunah (understanding).
He that getteth lev loveth his own nefesh;
he that is shomer over tevunah (understanding) shall find tov.
Barzel (iron) sharpeneth barzel (iron);
so one ish sharpeneth another.
A fool spurns his musar av,
but he that is shomer over tokhakhat (reproof) is prudent.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted chacham,
and he that shutteth his sfatayim (lips) is esteemed a man of understanding.
A prudent man foreseeth ra’ah, and hideth himself;
but the naïve ones trudge on, and are punished.
Construir sobre a rocha
Quem ouve as palavras de Jesus e as pratica é como o sábio que edificou sobre a rocha firme e inabalável.
Therefore, everyone who hears these devarim (words) of mine and does them, is like a chacham (wise man) who built his bais (house) upon the Tzur (Rock).
Who has chochmah and binah among you? Let him show by his hitnahagut hatovah (good conduct) that the ma’asim of him are of the shiflut (lowliness) of chochmah.
For I made the decision not to have da’as of anything among you except Moshiach and nivlato al haEtz (his body — gufa, bar-minen — on the Boim [Yiddish for tree]).
For his invisible characteristics from the Bri’at HaOlam (the creation of the world) are perceived intellectually in the things which have been created; that is, both his eternal ko’ach and Elohut are discernable. So Bnei Adam have no terutz (excuse) and are inexcusably culpable (before an angry G-d),
For in much chochmah (wisdom) is much ka’as (grief, vexation);
and he that increaseth da’as increaseth mach’ov (sorrow).