Short story: The value of repetition, and its role in our life

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Rabbi Astek Ludovich, was talking to his students about repetition. He said that repetition plays a big part in every life. Here is how he put it: "We eat, we sleep, we breathe, we commute, we work, we cut the grass, we see a movie, we take a holiday, etc; all of these things come, and go, in our life, repetitively so." "Why do we need repetition in our lives?" "Repetition serves life by giving common ways for love to syphon into life, in expected ways, instead of just unexpectedly." "And yet, in paradox to this idea, repetition should never be a vain repetition, but a conscious one always." "Change brings change, but far too often, repetition just brings more repetition." "Repetition, done rightly, should bring you into deeper contact with the subject matter, so that you gain more insights from performing the repetition." "Reading the Bible, is one such example, where continued rereading of its text, will allow you to grow deeper in the wisdom contained therein, and so you can build then a greater understanding, leading you to a greater wisdom too." "Repetition can be a refreshing new look into something; it does not have to be a boring reread of it. It can be a restructuring of our insight into it, giving us fresh legs to run with new ideas, as seen in the reworking of the text too." "Repetition and ceremony, instil respect, and build an attitude of sacrosanctity in us." "You become a deeper part of what is going on when you immerse yourself in it, allowing yourself to be a sacred, and holy, part of it too." "Repetition should never bore you to death, but should rouse you more into life, when done with that life within it." "The whole Universe is actioning itself in similar patterns, of performing constant repetition of natural cycles, which seem all very similar, but are really never exactly the same." "Repetition is a method of establishing truth initially, and then it is continually reused to replay the truth, and so that the truth can never be missed in the end." "Every soul, and all life, are all eventually led to truth, and to their own truth, from this constant recycling of truth taking place, all around them." "It is ultimately up to each individual soul in the end though, as to just how much truth they let into themselves, and as to how much truth they keep locked out of themselves too." And so, with that last statement, another interesting talk from the Rabbi, concluded until the next one, in the next week. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Repetition should never bore you to death.