The human being is confined in a body that…

The human being is confined in a body that he will leave behind all too soon. He gropes in darkness for the portal to eternal life, but the meager light of human intelligence is inadequate to find the way. Only the light of mitzuos (commandments), Torah and mussar (constructive admonitions) can illuminate the path to eternity.

— from The Landing (Death) · Maharal of Prague Pirkel Avos: A Commentary based on selections from Maharal's Derech Chai

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What we call death — the parting of the soul from the body — is not an ending but a return, each part going home to its own source. The human being is a soul confined for a little while inside a body it must soon leave behind, groping in the dark toward a light too great for our own small intelligence to find alone. And the covenant we stand inside was never made with us as solitary travelers; it binds us to those who flew before and those who will fly after — to eternity itself. — The Landing (Death)

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