“Let’s Try To Perform a Miracle”

On 9 Adar 5720 (March 7 1960) the Rebbe spoke to a group of Hillel students. After some remarks from the Rebbe the students had a chance to ask the Rebbe questions. The last question in the exchange was a most daring one. “Can the Rebbe perform miracles?”

The Rebbe answered thus: “This world is not separate from the higher worlds but is another step, the last one, in a long chain of worlds.”

“Everything in this world comes from and is influenced by the higher ones. A miracle is something that happens which you could not have calculated. When a Jew connects himself through his Divine spark with G‑d through fervent prayer, Torah, and mitzvos, he can affect things in this physical world “from above” — that means by a way which is beyond calculation. This power is not the prerogative of one Jew but of every Jew.”

That ended the meeting.

As the group took to leave, the Rebbe told them this. “Now I want to ask you a question, and at the same time try to perform a miracle.”

“If each of us, beginning tomorrow, should add in his own personal life more Torah and Mitzvos and influence the environment in the same direction, if we all will do this, myself included, this indeed will be our miracle.”

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“Miracles in all matters” means practically that in every aspect of your life that involves serving Hashem (which should be everything…) you perform a miracle: you do more that you would assume is you natural capability, eliciting a miraculous response from Above. (See ma’amar Nosta Lireieca Neis L’hosnoses 5711)