Printed from Chabad.org
Contact Us
Visit us on Facebook
Meet the new Chabad.org
Switch to OLD version

209. Fragments

Print
E-mail

We are all fragments of greater souls, and those souls fragments of even more lofty ones, and so on with those—until we all link back to the one primordial soul: the soul of Adam.

None of us is complete. No one can stand on his or her own. What one is lacking the other fulfills; where one excels, another is wanting.

Only together can we find oneness in our own selves. Only together can we be a fit vessel for the One Above to be revealed.

Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
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.
The content on this page is copyrighted by the author, publisher and/or Chabad.org, and is produced by Chabad.org. If you enjoyed this article, we encourage you to distribute it further, provided that you comply with the copyright policy.
Print
E-mail
Sort By:
Discussion (2)
February 11, 2011
Fragments
There is nothing but G-d right! It always comes back to that. So if that is true than we MUST each be complete ... each able to stand on our own, lacking nothing. It's just that we have chosen not to ... free will and all. We have chosen to come into this life with a unique expression of G-d that is seemingly separate from all the other unique expressions. But we carry the whole within the "single". Isn't there a spiritual and/or scientific tenet that states something to that effect ... I think it is every cell contains the whole or the microcosm in the macrocosm or something like that ... : )

When we feel that we lack nothing and are missing nothing, then we are FREE to be that full expression of who we are and thus, the ONE can be revealed more clearly.
Smadar
Thornhill, ON/Canada
February 11, 2011
Fragments
I don't usually compliment you straight off like this but I was literally dragged to the ground by this one!!! This one is so beautiful I just cannot believe it. How we all go to the soul of Adam. Of course it bothered me to hear that none of us are complete but I read on to hear more about how weaknesses of one is filled up in the vessel by weaknesses of another so they al l become strengths-So lyrical it is it reminded me so much of actually making a vessel on a potters wheel or even the first time I put vessels in a pool of water doing Raku pottery-I'm not sure why it reminded me of that-the imperfection of all that-thank you for reading this.
Miss Judith Witten
Brockton, Ma/USA
1000 characters remaining
Email me when new comments are posted.
FEATURED ON CHABAD.ORG