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The Astronaut, the Soul, and the Ultimate Lifeline 🚀
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If you've been feeling disconnected lately, consider this your sign to pick up the "device" and start talking. He is always listening. Video: Perry Cohen
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An astronaut went up to space. They
launched him into space with all the
noise and fanfare and 3 2 1 and the guy
goes wild.
And he starts describing what he sees.
He's documenting and he's telling them,
"Now I see this. I'm cutting through the
atmosphere and and I've landed on the
moon
between one star and another." And he
takes his radio device, dismantles it,
and over [music] the next 3 hours he
will disconnect all the wires and
reconnect them one by one. And suddenly
after 3 hours there's a crackling sound
on the radio and he shouts, "Hello!" And
they answer him and he says, "I am
alive." "What do you mean you're alive?
You were already alive before. What does
it mean to be alive now?"
He had no way to return to the world. He
needed them to guide him on how to come
back down. Rabbi Wolfson says, "This is
exactly what happens to us. The soul
makes a reverse flight from there to
here amidst noise and commotion. It
resists, but God insists showing the
soul that the journey is necessary and
for its own good." And the soul signs
and they launch it. 3 2 1 and it
descends here. We arrived here [music]
on this space flight and we must have a
communication device because without
this device we're lost.
And what is this communication device?
This communication [music] device we
have is the Holy One, blessed be He.
That is prayer. These are the moments
when you sit with the Holy One, blessed
be He, for a conversation and you tell
him how you feel. You let it all out and
you say, "Master of the universe,
listen. It's not easy for me." These are
the moments when we tell the Holy One,
blessed be He, how we feel. How can
someone come and rescue us from the
place we're in?