How can we possibly imagine that in the conglomerate of cells, organs and limbs we call our "body", extending across the hills and valleys of the terrain we call "time", there resides a single and singular "I"?
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I loved this , great writing!
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On yom kippur we stretch beyond normal limits to integrate our multiple selves with the total community in order to ask forgivness for the sins and failings of these many selves. There may be purity in our stretched and inflated state making us open for forgiveness.
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This is the only essay that I've read that provides a lift to the day of Yom Kippur with out somberness and breastbeating but with integration of the totallity of the human spirit and condition.
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These were the exact type of thoughts, I was telling a non jewish friend the other day. We wake up each and every day, with a new agenda. The agenda may not be what we envisioned but each day a new agenda. Today, Yom Kippur, we get to get away from that agenda and realize our mistakes, our sins etc and rebuild ourselves into a better life? Will we be what the Lord G-D has planned for us, or not, will we follow what has been ordained? Will we survive another year to be inscribed in the book of life? Bless the author and Chabad for putting this series on line. AMEN!
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At first I thought this article was in conflict with what the Rebbe teaches us in Perekt yud beis of Tanya. But then I thought-perhaps you mean that Yom Kippur is a special day, a day that we transcend the level of Beinoni. Is my assumption accurate? And if the assumption is accurate, do we need to put an effort of preperation to attain such a nullified and unified self?
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There is a wonderful discourse written by Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson based on the Chasidic discourse Heichaltzu. It is an article called The Divine Echoes, Singularity, Plurality and Oneness.
It speaks in great detail of the paradoxical aspect of plurality.
Thank you,
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