Wednesday, September 13, 2023

The Quality of Essence

Artist Unknown


God's Portion: His People

The Baal Shem Tov taught: ''The quality of essence is such that as soon as one grasps a tiny part of the essence, one grasps the whole of it.''

Thus it follows, that since all Jews [''His people''] have a Godly soul which is ''literally a portion of God above'' [Tanya Ch.2] - ''God's portion'' - then even when that soul undergoes the long journey downwards to this world, it remains inseparably bound with the Essence of God.  [See Ha'azinu 32:9]

Based on Sefer Hama'amarim 5735 p.243 Lubavitcher Rebbe

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love the artwork and the message

Anonymous said...

This is a beautiful post, thank you. TC

bvw_redux said...

Is that essense the same as "subject" or "essence" as used by Rabbi Shimon Kessin?

Devorah said...

Depends what he was saying at the time, what the context was. You can use the word essence in many different scenarios.