The soul begins in an intimate bond with the Origin Beyond All Things. Even as she invests herself into a material world, into a human form, the imprint of that bond remains. It is that bond that pulls her incessantly to return, like a magnet pulling towards its lost other half. All the searching of the human soul is an outward expression of this dynamic, this thirst to return. Yet as innate as this yearning may be, it must nevertheless be awakened. The soul must first realize she is distant. Return in all its strength and passion is found, therefore, in the soul which has wandered far from her true self and then awakened to recognize she is lost. All is intended. For the soul is G‑d’s fishing net. In her desperation to reunite with Him, she finds G‑d in every concern of this world. And so, these too are pulled in. And the deeper the descent, the greater the treasure. Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
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