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Adam and Eve started at the beginning of the story. Everyone else is born in the middle.

SpiritualityIdeas from Parshas Bereishis, most of them discussed at InsideChassidus.org:

Just as a two-year-old wants to feel united with a loving parent, your body wants to feel united with its Creator.

SpiritualityYour body needs more than survival.

There is deep fulfillment in serving someone with great wisdom, because you help build something that matters.

SpiritualityYou can help build something meaningful without being in charge.

The Torah is the heritage not merely of those born of Jewish parents, but it is shared by every soul that joins the Jewish nation and accepts the Torah. - Ramban

SpiritualityA meaningful life is about using your unique strengths to help build something greater than yourself, different strengths and responsibilities can contribute to one shared purpose.

A difficult situation can show you that what you feel is not the whole story.

SpiritualityA difficult situation can bring you to the limit of how you normally think and feel.

The Infinite Creator gave us real free choice. We can use it to create more suffering, or become partners in revealing more goodness.

SpiritualitySuffering becomes meaningful when it teaches us how to move from survival mode into real relationship.

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SpiritualityEmotional numbness can become so intense that even sadness is only understood, not felt.

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SpiritualityThe biggest question in spirituality is not only whether existence has a cause.

“The soul-only (no body) World to Come may last 1,000-2,000 years, but Kabbalah says it is not the final destination.”

SpiritualityMaimonides [Rambam] describes the World to Come as fully spiritual

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