A self-serving person has no purpose beyond him/her self. S/he is like a corporation without a mission statement— an organization without a cause —-a computer without a program. A life without service is poverty stricken, empty and useless. Imagine a person who meditates all day and does nothing to actively change and improve this world — doesn't serve to bring G-d's loving-presence into the world. Such meditation is only self-absorption and lacks the blessing acquired only through service.
A holy person charges everyone around him/her. S/he is more than a live wire, rather s/he is like the switch that completes the circuit so that the electricity flows. That's why we are told that even when a holy person passes away, he or she is still alive.
On the other hand, an evil person, who considered dead even when s/he is alive.
When Torah enjoins us to serve G-d with joy, it is not talking about some egotistical power that commands, "Serve me, or I'll punish you. And you better do it with a smile!" Rather, if you truly understand that serving G-d is the most self-gratifying experience a person can have, of course you will do it joyfully. You will be actualizing what you have been brought into this world to be — a vessel and a vehicle for the presence of G-d on earth, for the qualities of love and justice and truth and beauty and wisdom, all the qualities of G-d. What greater wealth is there?"
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Monday, April 9, 2007
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