Nurturing Faith (Chassidic Heritage)

The theme, as states the title, is "nurturing faith". Exploring this subject through the lens of chassidus invokes a deep understanding of a Jewish leader, a nasi, who's function is, as explained in the maamer, essentially to nurture the faith of the Jewish people. Corresponding to the sefirah of daa's, a Jewish leader provides a potential for one's otherwise superconsious faith to become internalized and thus materialized in everyday life. This dynamic has been illustrated throughout our history, when during times of extreme duress, our leaders aroused and awakened our essential, yet supra-consious faith. Manifesting in our incredible mesiras nefesh, these brazen displays of emunah were nesessary for our survival. Our challenge now, says the Rebbe, is to awaken and internalize this mesiras nefesh related emunah in our present times of freedom and abundance. Here too,explains the Rebbe, it is the nasi who generates this reality, if we only allow ourselves to connect through him.