The Unbreakable Unbreakable Soul - Mayim Rabim 5738 (Chasidic Heritage)

Many waters cannot extinguish the love and rivers cannot wash it away..." - Song of Song 8:7

How does the human ... reconcile the lure of the material ...with the soul's quest for spiritual fulfillment? Can the demands the individual ...make space for a transcendent reality?

This discourse vividly employs the image of rushing waters that threaten to submerge the individual. A metaphor for the incessant pressures of financial security, the raging current that drowns out everything in its path is the overwhelming pressure to make ends meet.

The Unbreakable Soul speaks to the tug of war between physical and spiritual, to the human being...who seeks security and comfort as a creature of a physical environment, yet yearns for fulfillment far beyond the ephemeral pleasures of the here and now.

The discourse finds resolution in a re-evaluation of the material in the service of the spiritual. Ultimately, the turbulent waters will not drown the soul, but raise it to even greater heights.