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Book Title Bringing Heaven Down to Earth
Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
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204. The Journey Home

Afterlife is a very rational, natural consequence of the order of things.
After all, nothing is ever lost—even the body only transforms into earth. But nothing is lost.

The person you are is also never lost. It only returns to its source.

If your soul became attached to the material world during its stay here, then it must painfully rip itself away to make the journey back.

But if it was only a traveler, connected to its source all along, then its ride home is heavenly.

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From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

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Posted: Jan 5, 2012
Journey response
If this is true then why do we console the mourner by saying "sorry for your loss"?
Posted By Anonymous, Silverdale, WA

Posted: Jan 3, 2012
Journey Home
This, a very "simplistic" answer to some basic questions (life vs. death, e.g.)
One could say this is TOO simplistic an "answer" to that most perplexing of question(s) regarding the end of our life here on earth.
While I find it somewhat perplexing, I also found it to be a simple answer to a question such as, "What happens when I die?" or "What happens when we are dead and pas on?", it opens a discussion of many questions, each of which should be answered accordng to a person's level of understamding, not unlike the questions of the young person's asking of the "Four Questions" in the Passover Haggadot.
Posted By Susie Kahn Parker, Northridge, CA

Posted: Jan 2, 2012
bringing heaven down to earth;
This world is not our home , just passing through. we are pligrim here just waiting to go home,

Our heavenly home is much better than the one we have here; and knowing this gives me hope ;
Posted By Anonymous, Jersey city, N.J

Posted: July 29, 2011
The Journey Home
Can't wait. :) (am joking?) And in answer to Anonymous Forest Hills - I agree with your lovely comments. lovely very artistically written giving good visual imagery. (London weather causes me to wish I could roam further afield.
Thank you
Posted By Anonymous, London

Posted: July 28, 2011
Journey
This is very comforting for people facing the end of their lives...
Posted By William Thompson, Deer Park, Texas

Posted: July 28, 2011
thankyou
this is so beautiful and as always timely... i was particularly touched by the line;

The person you are is also never lost. It only returns to its source.

G-d bless you for your sharing of this divinely inspired message
Posted By Michelle, UK

Posted: July 28, 2011
Traveler
Beautiful, Something we all have to be conscious about. Thanks
Posted By Binah Bindell, albany, NY

Posted: July 28, 2011
The Journey Home
For whatever reason I have a very rolling stone kind of life, have to move many times, etc. But right now I am in this place more than 10 years. I find myself not becoming familiar with the surrounding at all. I even see the temporary more when young people do not know this or that and old people pass on. Or a place some resemblance of the past but none of the persons who live there the same anymore. And obviously a life time number of years is very short. Let it be the Eternal in us keep our being in His senses. Amen.
Posted By Anonymous, Forest Hills, NY/USA

Posted: July 28, 2011
This is such a beautiful explanation of "death". My mother passed away when I was seven so I have been exposed to death and dying for most of my life, as she was sick for most of it too. I try to gently, but honestly, explain the process to my own daughter so that she can try and find her own ways to see this painful part of life in a different light. Thank you for these gentle words.
Posted By Anonymous, Olympia, WA/USA

Posted: Dec 30, 2007
Reasoning
Thank you for sharing this. My mother had an unfortunate lonely death. This helps me try to find some purpose in her passing.
Posted By Anonymous



 


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