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There Is More To This Question Than We Think

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A question I received: Can you please explain the question “What is the meaning of life?”

My Answer: The question “What is the meaning of my life?” can be answered on the level of our world by “What what am I filling myself with?” Or on the level of the spiritual world, the question is addressed by asking, “Whom am I pleasing?”  “What should I do with my life?”  “Where should I go?”

I have to unravel the mystery of the “meaning of life.” These related questions deal with the source of life:  “What do we live for?”  “Why do we live?” “What is the secret of life?”  “How and why did life appear?”  However, questioning “the meaning of life” isn’t necessarily a question about the origins of life, it’s more of an inquiry about why this all happened and where it is leading me. The question “What is the meaning of life?” deals with all the unanswered questions of my entire life.

Humanity is now asking this question. However, how profound or purposeful is the question that is actually being asked? For example, if a person has a mishap in his life or feels even the slightest dissatisfaction, he may ask, “What is the meaning of my life?”

The answer is revealed only after that question has been coined by hard labor and exertion, directed precisely toward the goal.

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Proverbs 20:5

Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

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"The Holy One, blessed be He, will tell him (the Messiah) in detail what will befall him...
their sins will cause you to bend down as under a yoke of iron and make you like a calf
whose eyes grow dim with suffering and will choke your spirit as with a yoke, and
because of their sins your tongue will cleave to the roof of your mouth. Are you willing
to endure such things?... The Messiah will say: 'Master of the universe with joy in my
soul and gladness in my heart I take this suffering upon myself provided that not one
person in Israel shall perish, so that not only those who are alive be saved in my days, but
also those who are dead, who died from the days of Adam up to the time of redemption.'"

[Pesikta Rabbati, Piska 36.1; Zohar II. 212a]

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