Noah, the first man with fingers

In the year 1042 (2718 BCE) from Creation, in the 55th year of Methuselah's rule, Seth, Adam's son, passed away. He was buried in Arbel. Methuselah's other son, Lemech was 168 years old at that point and there was a famine in the land.

Thirteen years later (2705 BCE), Lemech married Ashmaa and his father Methuselah told him that

Think good

Tikunei Zohar 22(Kabbalah) points out that the letters forming "besimcha" (with joy) are the same as that spell "machshavah" (thought). This is one aspect or facet of the Tzemach Tzedek's famous "Tracht gut vet zein gut" (Think good and it will be good) like the Tzaddik Reb Zusya who had what we would find a difficult life, but never saw anything bad happen to him as it was all the will of HaShem.

Another aspect is that we have the power with our own goodness to re-channel the future, not to be driven by fear. The way the neurons get fired, so they get wired. You can change Destiny. We have to reframe & come up with positive thoughts speech actions more powerful than the fear grief or pain. When you forge ahead, you reveal deeper levels of goodness. Forge ahead. And you'll not only survive but thrive.

23 Sivan

From  a  sicha  about today, כג סיון.

"Today is a most auspicious day - as it says in the Megilla that on chof gimmel Sivan, "the scribes of the king wrote everything Mordechai commanded". 

 "Mordechai" is a reference to all Jews  - Mordechai's men. This happens every year on this day.

The King is a reference to Hashem, and we can request  anything we want on this day and that  "every Yid is a Baal Habayis of the entire world on this day and can decree whatever he wants and everything is done according to his will."  

And not only fulfilled but carried out  speedily as it says in Psalms:  "He sends his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly."  (147:15)"

 הַשֹּׁלֵחַ אִמְרָתוֹ אָרֶץ;    עַד-מְהֵרָה, יָרוּץ דְּבָרוֹ


(23 Sivan Farbrengen, 5743)

Moshiach's Color

Moshiach in the Tanach is referred to sometimes as a leper. About leprosy the Torah says (Lev. 13:2): "When a person has on his flesh…." The word for "person" is Adam. The Arizal explains that Adam is the most lofty label for a person and refers to an all-inclusive soul. Even Moses is generally referred to in the Torah as Ish (man), this has a more individual connotation. If Moses is an Ish, the Arizal concludes, then the only candidate for the higher title Adam is Moshiach, the quintessential all-inclusive soul. But why is he a leper?

Patterns of Evidence: Exodus trailer

@ Rebbe Story # 4

Some time in the early 1940's, ten Lubavitch yeshiva bochurim (students) received draft notices. As they were going into the train station, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe was seen at his window peering out and saying something. 
When they got to the draft board, the bochurim were met by two physicians, one Jewish, the other one not. Nine of the ten were examined by the Jewish doctor and were dismissed from the draft. When it was the turn of the tenth one ( who was, incidentally, the only clean-shaven one in the group), the Jewish doctor suddenly decided to take his lunch break  and told the bochur that his Gentile partner would see him. 
The other nine bochurim decided to head back, leaving their buddy behind to await his turn. (When they got back, the Rebbe asked what happened to the other bochur, when he heard their response, he went back to the window and continued to say something.) 
Just then, a group of previous appointees showed up and were ushered into the non-Jewish doctor while the bochur had to wait them out. By the time they were done, the Jewish doctor came back from lunch, examined the bochur and sent him home. 

@ The only world in which Creation makes sense

Rabbi Steinsaltz stated in an interview that the Jewish response to whether ours was the best of all possible worlds or the worst of all possible worlds is that "We are living in the worst of all possible worlds in which there is still hope."

He was then asked: “But has G-d placed us in this worst of all possible but hopeful worlds for a reason?”