This Shabbos around the Synagogue luncheon we had a discussion about the meaning of life – in my little Dvar Torah – Torah teaching – I repeated the Rebbe’s teaching, that we feel aimless, because we are torn asunder – shattered by the myriad instinctual pulls – lacking a single unified purpose, we, today are into sports, tomorrow into dieting, the next day into yoga, the next into meditation, and the list is endless – we need to cut our ties to all the instinctual impulses, the grandiose delusions of our society and self, and focus on a singular all-encompassing purpose to our lives – well one smart-alec piped up “like saving the whales;” As if! –but an elderly wise grandmother then explained: “to the whales, saving them, is very purposeful” – and the point of this point, is this point – that yes, each and every one of us cherish our own existence – our tendency, as we are born without a functioning mind independent of our instincts, hence in childhood all is as it relates to me, is to see the existence of all else in my worldview, which means “how does it affect my world,” but what if we inverted that and asked instead – “how do I affect the world?” – not the whole world, but every individual rock, plant, animal and of course most importantly person’s world.