The poet Tagore wrote, “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because dawn has come.” My husband, Rav Berg, often taught that death is the greatest illusion of all – that we find out we simply go through another door. The eminence of death is indisputable. To lose someone we love is one of the greatest pains of life, but it is my hope with the wisdom of spirituality and the Light of the Creator that we can help overcome that. As kabbalists throughout many generations have predicted, the day will come when death will be no more, it will be swallowed up, disappearing from our midst. But does nature not already hint this to us? When the leaves die and fall to the ground in the fall, do new ones not come again next spring? Do we not see in the eyes of our children our loved ones who have passed? I believe there is no death, because energy never dies, it just changes form. Our soul continues on, even though the body may not. The soul continues on into other incarnations, shifting its being into new vessels. Like the water that becomes a vapor, everything is simply changing form. We never really say goodbye to anything, we merely move through a new door, just as the Rav taught us. This week, we are able to glimpse into the immortal, touching endlessness where death does not exist. We are revitalized, renewed, and resurrected physically and spiritually. To be alive is to be a being in transition, and this week, we understand this profound secret.
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Never Having to Say Goodbye
