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The Rebbe once said, “Thirst is a very great desire.”

He wanted to give us some idea of the longing and yearning that is the wondrous thirst for God.

The thirstier you are, the greater your pleasure in drinking water. Your thirst is the source of your enjoyment.

The same is true of your holy thirst for God.

This is the delight of the World to Come – it will be a time of desire and longing. This is the desire of all desires and the concept of the passing of Moses ( Zohar II, 88b; Likutey Moharan I, 4:9) . It is written that for his final resting place, Abraham paid “four hundred shekels of silver” (Genesis 23:16) . The holy Zohar says that these are the four hundred worlds of yearning that the righteous will inherit in the World to Come ( Zohar I, 123b) .

They are particularly worlds of yearning. For there one will be worthy of the true yearning and thirst for God. Quenching this thirst will be the main delight of the World to Come (cf. Psalms 39:6, 66:12) .