At first, all existed as a single whole in a single thought.
Then it fell below, shattering into tiny fragments and fragments of fragments.
Now the human being picks up the pieces and says, “This seems to belong to this, and this relates to that,” until we reach back to the whole as it was in a primal thought.
Human intelligence cannot always answer “how” and “why.” Its beauty is in its ability to find the harmony and elegance of the whole as it was originally conceived.
Mitzvah HaTshuvah Good Deeds of Return
Mitzvot reconstitute these sparks, returning them to their proper place.
These sparks are found in everyone, even in the worst examples of sometimes not readily recognizable as human beings.
These sparks are not lost,unles we can not see them in everyone, sometimes hidden,but even then, they are not lost, we are.
Tshuvah is good, but even better it is to cause Tshuvah in others.
Mitzvot are good, but better to cause another to do Mitzvot. Rav Akivah
Anyway, if one wonders just exactly where those sparks might be, we are living with them; and of course, they live among us. They will find you; and you will find them, repaired or unrepaired. Life is full choices!!! We are all works in progress.
Figure out 10 ways to remedy each situation, and start now as if the world depended on it, cause it does.
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Beautiful Thank you so much for this beautifully expressed explanation. It uplifted my day. Reply
Intelligence is acceptance? In reading this posting, I think of how little I know of the "mysteries" that are a part of the concept of "understanding the pieces as part of the Whole". Although I always understood the idea that those fragments were part of the "original Light" of Creation, if you will, and that each of us represents one of those Fragments, I remember feeling that my soul found its "corresponding piece" of the Divine Universe as my husband and I made our wedding vows to each other under a huppah held up by dear friends on each corner, and before a group of family and friends. This was only a year ago, and somehow I feel as though I'm only now understanding it in a way I couldn't when I was younger. This, to me is the unltimate acceptance: Beshert. Reply
Re-Forming After the shattering of the whole, each piece aquired the evil force of separation, rejection and even repulsion of the other. Each grew more self-centered only to exploit the other for self-gratification.
Those whose sparks have awakened to give them the desire to re-form the proper mutual good relations and connections with others will attract the Light to form a micro structure of connections as the original.
This micro-structure will then be able to be a conduit for this light of connection for the rest of humanity. They will resonate with this re-formed structure of healthy mutual relationships between all.
The Kabbalists have advised how we re-form this structure, like the students of Rabbi Shimon bar-Yochai (author of the Zohar). We do this voluntarily or many crises await to force us into the proper connections in a world that is already in it's globally established structure - a sign to start the re-forming.