Talking to Himself

Would it be possible to share the Rebbe's words in the original Yiddish, with interlinear English (and, while I'm wishing) access to audio to learn the correct pronunciation?). I would very much like to learn to understand the Rebbe in Yiddish, and a friend tells me he has clear and relatively easy to follow talks. For myself, I learn best when I can hear and see, and see the translation and transliterated versions at the same time....Thank you,

I missed it too, that the soul is a she ! But i am thinking further along. Hashem has masculine and feminine attributes. One of His attributes alludes to His Shechina, the heel, a feminine aspect, which will settle on the Beit Hamikdash when Moshiach arrives. The Shechina has a feminine counterpart in the Soul, where it is called Malchut.

I am in accord with you on the union of the Soul with Hahem. I think that applying a gender is for contextual purposes, depending on the point of Torah on which we are speaking.

Every person has masculine and feminine attributes in context of the times.. For a modern example, fathers diaper babies. Woman are working at jobs. Chabad.org has women working on their staff.

If one looks at Shabbat, She is the Queen. In the Lecha Dodi we call to our Beloved, Hashem, to meet the Sabbath, The Queen. In this context it is Hashem's male attributes that are called forth.

I may be in over my depth on this. But discussing Torah is never be a bad thing.

I just read the 21 May email, "Talking to Himself - Meditation."

Earlier today, and out of the blue, I was wondering why Chabad always refers to the soul as "she." Then I had the epiphany that it's because the soul is in union with Hashem, as a bride is in union with her husband. It's referred to so often in Torah I don't know how I could have missed it!

Perhaps the contemplation wasn't as "out of the blue" as I thought at the time: perhaps I was being courted, prepared for the meditation in this email.

I was just starting to put my feelings and thoughts into soul mode just as you have described !

i have ramped it up from there to the ' grabbing of G-d's lapels ', the work of the soul.

For the 5-6 years that i have been following Chabad.org, , it is with some frequency now that i understand most Daily Dose, which is based on The Rebbe's teachings, and many other articles and comments.

Suddenly i feel as if i am at a feast, loading up on soul food, nourishing and enriching my messenger/soul.

Whereas i thought that i was quite singular in my approach to G-d/Torah, all of a sudden i am reading affirmations. Maybe they were there all along and i missed them. Likely i am on that ' Emunah high '. Now the trick for me is to develop that Bitachon steely constant.

For a person who was your basic atheist, it is nice to move towards the Greater Possibility.

Does that mean that we are all one with Hashem?

Ah...and so we desire to know Torah.
But can we ever fully know Torah?

The effort is a delight.