Imagination: The capacity to uplift dreams
The truth is you cannot be a prophet without the utmost, unbelievable, most infinite imagination. A person who has no imagination can never be a prophet. You can be the holiest man in the world, but if you don’t have any imagination - doesn’t work. What is really a holy soul? Someone who has great imagination. Take Reb Nachman - just to make up the story of the seven beggars takes the holiest imagination in the world. Or the story of the master of prayer. Way out imagination, right? What is the difference, I’m not knocking it, between the great holy rabbis who only knew Gemora and those who were the great kabbalists? Imagination. The more your imagination works. The closer you feel to the secrets of the world. The real truth is that to learn Gemora properly you also need imagination the most way out imagination you can put in every word of the Gemora. But this is already if you are on the level, because then it becomes also a secret. The holiness of the soul is really the holiness of imagination. What is a person who is really tied onto this world imagining? What is the whole thing of believing in the Messiah or not believing in the Messiah? It is a question of imagination, right? A person says, listen, I see the world. People believe in money, people believe in war. You will tell me that suddenly some day the Messiah is coming and on a donkey! - He’ll blow a little trumpet, the whole world will come running, and everybody will say, ich ves, “Shalom Alehem!” It’s crazy! It’s a question of imagination. If you have good imagination why not? That’s all there is to it. Why not?
Why are we dreaming at night? Because at night the only thing which we have is imagination. And the greatest vessel for dreams is imagination. Reb Nachman says the most way out thing — the strongest imagination that you need is to believe that G-d created heaven and earth, and to believe that you really need imagination. You look at the world and you see a solid world, you need the strongest and holiness imagination that G-d created heaven and earth. Reb Nachman says that all the holy tzaddikim, all the holy people, they had this strong imagination. And if you have this tremendous imagination not only can you receive dreams but you can interpret dreams and even uplift someone else’s dreams.
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