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On the awesome day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, of the year 5507 (1746), the Baal Shem Tov lay in deep meditation and ascended to the holy chamber of the Moshiach. “Master,” he asked, “when shall you come?” The answer: “When your wellsprings shall spread to the outside.”

The wellspring are the wellsprings of the deepest inner wisdom. Not only the water of the wellsprings, but the wellsprings themselves must spread forth. When the furthest, darkest reaches of the material world shall become wellsprings of the innermost wisdom, then the Moshiach shall come. This is our mandate now.

—The Rebbe

Reprinted from 365 Meditations of the Rebbe by Tzvi Freeman

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Paradise and purgatory are one and the same. Paradise, for the righteous, is to bask in the radiance of G-d. This shall be their reward. And how will the wicked be punished?

In the World To Come there is no eating or drinking... no business or competition; rather, the righteous sit, their crowns on their heads, and enjoy the radiance of the divine presence. —Talmud, Brachot 17a

Said Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov:

"Do you think that paradise and purgatory are so different from each other? No, no, they are one and the same. Paradise, for the righteous, is to bask in the radiance of G-d. This shall be their reward. And how will the wicked be punished? They, too, shall be brought to paradises to behold the radiance of the Divine, which they won't know what to make of.

To experience the reality of G-d, and at the same time to recognize how distant one is from His truth --- there is no greater agony for a soul."

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