9th of Av: the Seer of Lublin’s Yahrzeit « The Wonders of Your Torah: "he Seer of Lublin, the mentor of almost all the leaders of the major Chasidic dynasties in Poland in the beginning of the 19th century (according to tradition, 120 Chasidic Rebbes were his disciples), was one of those great tzadikim who, like the Lubavitcher Rebbe in our generation, out of infinite love and compassion for the Jewish people, devoted his life, with total self-sacrifice (to the extent of becoming physically ill…), to bringing the Mashiach – now!
In Kabbalah, the passing of a tzadik is understood as the elevation of “feminine waters” (the existential longing of the tzadik‘s soul to leave the confines of the physical body, to return to and become part of God) that arouses from on high the descent of “masculine waters” (God’s arousal, as it were, to impregnate reality with a “new soul” of a great tzadik who will shine “new light” to the world)."
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