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Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

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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.

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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: Sep 16, 2011

Thank you

I love each of your "doses of wisdom" and I thank you for bringing this light into my life

Posted By Yiska, Staten Island, New York

Posted: Sep 16, 2011

G-d within

Re the teaching of the Baal Shem Tov about the indwelling G-d, this has been the understanding of all mystics in all the main religions for thousands of years. Most people could just not get their minds around this amazing fact.
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.

Posted By Cedric Levy, Zichron Yaacov, Israel

Posted: Sep 14, 2011

A Glimmer

Thank you for helping us be connected.

Posted By Anonymous, St George

Posted: May 20, 2009

Yes

This explains a personal spiritual experience!!!
Thanks again.

Posted By David Brown, Vienna, Austria

Posted: May 20, 2009

Taken aback

Baal, I was thinking of Baal against Elijah, I did my homework I searched it and Bam this site is easy to use, I only need more time! Being a movement is putting it lightly, quite the reformer if I might add.

Posted By Celine Bennett, Elliot Lake, Canada, Ontario

Posted: May 19, 2009

Response to questions

In response to some who wrote that they didn't see anything unique in the Baal Shem Tov's idea, I wrote:

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.

Posted By Tzvi Freeman, Thornhill, Ontario

Posted: Feb 5, 2009

Wow...

Your words are inspiring, thought provoking and riveting... Thank you.

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