The Notes of the Eternal Song

When we find that good point in others or in ourselves for which we must seek, we are translating a person from the scale of being unlike G-d to the scale of being like G-d, for G-d alone is good, and He made us to be like Him and wants us to become like Him, to be good in His reflection. There is no one who is truly good, for as it is said, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.  Yet there can be, and is, a redemption.

And it is what God finds good that He redeems and what He finds to be sin He eradicates in death.  Only God can judge in us what is a good point and something to be redeemed and what is sin. But while judging no one, we must  yet judge what is good and what is not good in its own right. We must judge this in ourselves and in others, although we cannot judge any person. For only God judges what He will redeem. What may seem an insignificant good to us may have a place of great importance in the world of redemption; and what seems to be a great amount of good to us may have a place of less importance. 

Still, if we are to become educated to understand the judgments of God in their time, we must learn not only what is sin but find the points of what is good, both in others and in ourselves, and must compose these points together, like notes on a musical scale, and sing of them. 

In our judgment of what is good we are ever learning, ever subject to correction.  Therefore we sing of the good with complete humility, in the fear of God.

We receive this teaching about finding good points in others and composing them as notes in a song from Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.  It is the teaching called Azamra, which can be translated from Hebrew as, "I will sing!"

The first note in the eternal song might be thought of as the "azamra point".  

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by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum.  

Or have a look at www.azamra.org.  Or you might want to go straight to one of Rabbi Greenbaum's recent audio lessons on this subject, such as at this one on the Nekuda, as the point of all reference.

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