What a difference a day makes! My inbox was overflowing with wisdom regarding my soul today. I love it when that happens as a result of my prayerful intention.
I am so grateful to Rabbi Yitzchak Schwartz for sharing the following in an email to his list today. Such a perfect reply to the longings I expressed just yesterday in my blog post.  A Part of the Divine"Only the lowest part of the Soul is inside of the body… The
great majority of the Soul reaches beyond the body up to the highest
heights… This explains the essential upward striving of the soul [as if it
wants to escape from the body and return to its Heavenly Home]… The Soul,
prior to entering the body, was in a World of Souls–a very pure and sublime
world—where the souls are as yet untested by the coarse and dark reality of the
materialistically oriented body… Besides the Soul’s memory of life prior to the
body, the Soul also has a super-consciousness that draws from that
part of itself that is presently not inside of the body [which comprises
the great majority of it's makeup]… Just like a candle flame that is constantly
striving to reach beyond it’s limiting, grounding wick, the Soul strives to
reach beyond the limiting mindset and consciousness that it is presently
confined to inside of the body—a striving to grow, to go beyond itself and to
somehow return to it’s Infinite Divine roots." Coming to know my eternal soul is a big responsibility. It's easy to get too busy and distracted in this life, and miss the whole opportunity. Oh, I don't want to miss it! My Shabbat candles remind me that I am also striving to "reach beyond my grounding, limiting wick." I wrote a song about this. Maybe I can record it soon. I will remember when I light my Shabbos candles this week for sure. |
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