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Full text of the quote by Rabbi Feinstein:
When God created the world, everything was in its place, beautiful, complete and perfect. Only one thing was missing. The world was dark, static, lifeless, without energy or motion. So God breathed life and light and energy into the world, and the world came alive. The problem was, God so loved the world, God breathed in too much energy, too much light. And like blowing too much air into a balloon, the world exploded. In a huge big bang, the world exploded, sending pieces every which way. That’s our world, taught Isaac Luria. We live in the world of broken pieces, shattered fragments, shards and ruins. But each one of these broken pieces still carries sparks of God’s light. Our job, as human beings, is to gather the pieces and put them together. Tikkun, the job of repairing God’s broken world, is our task in the world.
There is a corner of the world that only you, with your abilities and interests and aptitudes, only you can make whole. You’re task is to find that place, and apply all your energy and skill to make it whole, to make it right. That’s the meaning of your life. That’s how you live a life of meaning. The answer to the question, what’s the meaning of life, isn’t a philosophical discourse or theological
formula. The answer is found in doing, in acting. That’s the deeper truth of the Jewish tradition: The language of meaning is made up of deeds not words. Meaning is located in a pattern of sacred acts.
The first Lubavitcher Rebbe, Shnuer Zalman taught that there will always be moments in life when we’re ready to give up and lie down in defeat. We give up on the world, on God, on the meaning. When those moments come, taught the Rebbe, you must go and do one good deed. One act of selfless loving. Go hold the hand of a sick person. Go teach one child to read. Go feed one hungry person. Fill your hands with Tikkun, with goodness, and suddenly you will feel God’s presence in your hands.
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