Quotes From The Rebbe

Vayikra 5750

Just as a nation is not a nation without a king, and a king is not a king without a nation; similarly God chose us and we accepted to be his nation, which ironically then “creates” his kingdom.

It is only possible to have a relationship between a king and a people if they are similar (aka human, not say a human over animals.)

To this effect the Jews are similar to God.

This similarity is not only on a essential soul level but even on:

1. The very physical shape of the Jew as explained in Kabbalah that our body resembles the name of God.

2. Even the fundamental personality of the Jew, as we know there are three character traits to the Jew: compassion, respectful and giving (which are Divine qualities.)

3. We also know that the ten parts to our soul (seferios/ coichos) are exact replica of the ten sefiros (levels) that God made for his soul.

4. Even the three conscious parts, namely, our thoughts, speech and action; also resemble the Divine (manner of manifestation – he “speaks” to himself, he reveals to others and he acts.)

6. Furthermore as our soul is Divine, hence it means as we are living on earth (though we don’t thank about this) in truth it is God animating our bodies.

7. Even if when my behavior is not consistent with God’s intent, nonetheless as the Rambam writes, a Jew’s true intent is to be a Jew and to fulfill the will of God, it is only sometimes the Yetzer Hara forces us into acting differently.

8. Even when I am sinning, we find that the same Jew would readily give his life as has happened countless times through Jewish history where Jews gave up their lives not to do anything unJewish – only, during a sin, as it is a pleasure based instinct, my mind rationalizes it – but if I overcome the rationalization, becoming aware that any sin is literally sundering myself from God I would even give my life to obey.

Hence Jews and God are united, to the extent my real true will is to follow God’s.

The existence of the Jew is “the praise of God” as the verse says, “I fashioned this nation, they sing my praise”.

This means not that we need to sing God’s praises, rather our very existence (as mentioned above) sparks the Divine consciousness in those who see us.

Furthermore, the very fact that the Jewish nation has continued a perpetual 4,000 years of existence despite far greater empires – world powers – having come and gone, while the Jews are compared to a single sheep surrounded by seventy blood thirsty wolves is a testament to God.

Furthermore, as we see empirically, in our generation where the evil satan in Germany tried to wipe us off the face of the earth (the final solution) not only did Jews miraculously survive, but they continued Judaism, and Judaism in fact is thriving, pulsating with Torah, learning and growth in extraordinary measures.

Of course every individual who survived the Holocaust is himself a living miracle.

This Divine side to us, not only is a state of being, but effects – as we know every Jewish soul will return to God – a kind of subconscious push, promoting a positive consciousness change.