Insight → Cry to See G-d, and Make it Happen
When the Rebbe Rashab was four or five years old, he came crying to his grandfather, the Rebbe Tzemach Tzedek, saying, “Why was G-d seen to Avraham our forefather and to us He is not seen?” The Rebbe Tzemach Tzedek answered that when a righteous Jew decides at age 99 to circumcise himself, he is worthy of G-d being seen to him.
This story teaches all of us that we should want to see G-d so much, to the point of crying, and to do everything we can to make it happen. The idea of circumcision represents making our bodies holy and making everything in wherever we are in the world into a holy “Land of Israel”.
The Rebbe Rashab established the Yeshivah of Tomchei Temimim, where the mystical teachings of Chassidus are studied analytically in order to thoroughly understand G-d, “seeing” Him with intellectual eyes. This leads to the Redemption, when we will actually see G-d!
(See talk of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, Vayeira 5752 (1991))
