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I no longer see a table, a chair, a lamp... only the letters of the Divine utterances [which give existence and life to the physical existence]
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi to his grandson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, shortly before his passing on Tevet 24, 5583 (1812)
Daily Thought
Naturally, we think of the Jewish people as a conglomerate of many Jews. But the Baal Shem Tov saw the Jewish people as a single, indivisible whole. Think of a geometrical point. A point is indivisible, but not because it is too hard, too big, or too small to cut up. A point simply has no area to be divided. That’s what makes it a point. And yet, from a point you can extend infinite lines radiating in infinite dimensions. In a somewhat similar way, but far beyond, all Jews are one Jew. Which means that in any one Jew, you will find all of us—just from a different angle. So that whatever happens to any one of us instantaneously happens to the entire Jewish people. Not by some ripple effect or resonance. But...