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G-d Within
Discuss (7)Before the Baal Shem Tov, people thought of G-d as the One who directs all things from above and beyond.
The Baal Shem Tov taught that the vital force of each thing, from which comes its personality, its sense of pain and pleasure, its growth and life -- that itself is G-d. Not that this is all of G-d. It is less than a glimmer of G-d, because He is entirely beyond all such descriptions. But that life force is G-d as He is found within each creature He has made.
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.
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The power for each atom is sustained by Hashem's force.
I used to have a great teacher (z"l) who would say "The purpose of life is to become aware of, and then to manifest (or express) the Divine living within you."
The stilling of ego, (by prayer, meditation, right thinking) allows this Divine to increasingly express itself through us.
Of course there are many complexities, but this is the essence of mysticism.
Read "The Sustaining Utterance" by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.
It has been said before - but everyone who says it again is pointing in the right direction.
Zichron Yaacov, Israel
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Vienna, Austria
Elliot Lake, Canada, Ontario
Vitalism is a concept found in many belief systems throughout the world. Within the framework of monotheism, however, it meets with great difficulties. The Baal Shem Tov took an approach that theologians had rejected offhand as paradoxical--even heretical: That G-d is at once both within the very identity of each creature, while remaining entirely transcendent of all being. Later, Rabbi Schneur Zalman wrote a reasoned presentation of the Baal Shem Tov's teaching in the Tanya.
Thornhill, Ontario
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