![]() ![]() Our accomplishments would not be ours, any more than it is an “accomplishment” that we eat three meals a day and avoid jumping into fire. If we were to experience the power and beauty of the divine presence we bring into the world with our mitzvot, we would always choose what is right, and thereby lose our autonomy. What are these four phases, and why are all four necessary? To See or Not to See: The Free Choice ParadoxĪs discussed at length in chassidic teaching, 2 the ultimate purpose of the soul is fulfilled during the time it spends in this physical world making this world “a dwelling-place for G‑d” by finding and expressing G‑dliness in everyday life through its fulfillment of the mitzvot.īut for our actions in this world to have true significance, they must be the product of our free choice. the “ world to come” ( olam haba) that follows the resurrection of the dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() post-physical life in Gan Eden (the “Garden of Eden,” also called “Heaven” and “Paradise”).the wholly spiritual existence of the soul before it enters the body.While there are numerous stations in a soul’s journey, these can generally be grouped into four general phases: Certainly, the spiritual energy that in the human being is the source of sight and hearing, emotion and intellect, will and consciousness does not cease to exist merely because the physical body has ceased to function rather, it passes from one form of existence (physical life as expressed and acted via the body) to a higher, exclusively spiritual form of existence. If such is the case with physical energy, how much more so a spiritual entity such as the soul, whose existence is not limited by time, space, or any of the other delineators of the physical state. The Lubavitcher Rebbe would often point out that a basic law of physics (known as the First Law of Thermodynamics) is that no energy is ever “lost” or destroyed it only assumes another form. This is articulated in the verse in Kohelet ( Ecclesiastes), “And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to G‑d, who gave it.” 1 One of the fundamental beliefs of Judaism is that life does not begin with birth, nor does it end with death. ![]()
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