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Excerptsfrom Doug Lipman's "The Soul of Hope"
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Sample 1: from "The Son of Rabbi Adam." ...Israel wrote himself a prayer. He began to read it over and over. Feeling the presence of the Angel of Death in the room he clung to that prayer like he had never attached himself to anything in his life. Hours later, the letters of the prayer began to blur, but still he read it over and over. Then the letters lost their outlines. Just at that moment his soul lost its outlines and travelled from his still-living body. His soul soared free all night, far from the grasp of the Angel of Death.
Just as the first rays of dawn entered the room his soul returned to his body...
Sample 2: From "The Soul of the Mashiach." ...He knew that behind that gate was the soul of the Mashiach. There his soul spoke the yud-hay-vov-hay, the most holy name of G-d. And the gate opened. Face to face with that soul he thought, "Perhaps it could happen! Violence - gone. Greed - gone. Disconnection - gone. The whole world made right!" His soul was flooded with sweet, painful hope. He managed to utter a question of a single word: "When?" The soul of the Mashiach answered:
When every one knows what you know.
Doug Lipman This page was last updated on October 12, 2004
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