Naturally, we think of the Jewish people as a
conglomerate of many Jews. But the Baal Shem Tov saw the Jewish people as a
single, indivisible whole.
Think of a geometrical point. A point is
indivisible, but not because it is too hard, too big, or too small to cut up. A
point simply has no area to be divided. That’s what makes it a point.
And yet, from a point you can extend infinite
lines radiating in infinite dimensions.
In a somewhat similar way, but far beyond, all
Jews are one Jew. Which means that in any one Jew, you will find all of us—just
from a different angle.
So that whatever happens to any one of us
instantaneously happens to the entire Jewish people. Not by some ripple effect
or resonance. But because any one sample of the whole is the...
