Distances like a light-year or the size of a galaxy are unfathomable. Very, very small things like an electron or quark are unfathomably small.
Spiritual incentives, like the eternal reward for doing a mitzvah are also unfathomable.
Below are three unfathomable — but obtainable — spiritual incentives from the book Inner Work:
The Ari HaKadosh says that Olam Haba, the world to come, is a level of spiritual experience that can be experienced now.
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Olam Haba, L’atid Lavo, Yamot HaMashiach, etc., are all spiritual levels that we can attain in our lifetime.
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and
The smallest spiritual pleasure is greater than all the material pleasures combined.
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These excerpts from Rav Gottlieb’s writings are not just flowery, feel-good, empty statements — they are the truth and can be found in other sources as well.
Yitzhak Sasson 