Suddenly, the Rebbe started to meditate aloud, as he offered perhaps the clearest exposition he ever expressed on how he saw his role in Jewish life. “Reb Yehuda, let me tell you what I try to do. Imagine you’re looking at a candle. What you are really seeing is a mere lump of wax with a thread down its middle. So when do the thread and the wax become a candle? Or, in other words, when do they fulfill the purpose for which they were created? When you put a flame to the thread, then the wax and the thread become a candle.” The Rebbe’s
