Soul Qualities - A Mindful Jewish Moment

Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Alter of Gur taught that every tzaddik,

Every enlightened teacher,

Had some particular practice for a pretext by which he hid his holiness from the world.

The Yehudi HaKadosh,

Through his scholarship,

And this was true of Rabbi Simcha Bunim as well.

The Chosei,

His attainment of the Holy Spirit.

The Kotzger,

His incisiveness.

Rest your eyes,

Relaxing body and breath.

The rabbis and their practices that the Alter of Gur celebrates were deemed so holy that they had to wrap their teachings in a particular soul quality in order for them to be received by their followers.

While we may not ascend to the levels of holiness of a tzaddik,

We can tend to our own holy soul qualities.

As you continue to rest your eyes,

Ask yourself what soul quality will you be remembered for?

How does this soul quality bring holiness to this world?

Imagine yourself holding the soul quality and cradling it like a precious baby.

If your most precious soul quality were an infant needing to be nurtured,

How would you nurse it?