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P. 147. The Ba'al Shem Tov's urging to look at everything in nature with good eyes. We must stop complaining that it would have been better had we lived at different times (e.g., in the time of great tzaddikim (righteous people)). Tzaddikim saw the potential in every Jew. The uniqueness of Avraham Avinu. Each person is the person he is, was not created like another person, and cannot be another person. It is one thing to admire another person and to emulate them, but quite another to say: "If only I had been born into a different family, different shidduch, etc..." My job in my life is to learn from everything. Avraham Avinu's greatness was that he became completely "Avraham Avinu." Not every person is cut out to sit and learn seven or eight hours every day. It is important to look up to earlier generations, but we don't have an obligation to "be" them. Different generations need different neshamos (souls). In this time before moshiach there is a tremendous amount of extremism, but also a great thirst for truth.
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