We Are the Last Sparks: Reincarnation, Healing & the Generation of Mashiach

Based on teachings from Chesed L’Avraham and the Kabbalistic tradition

What if your deepest challenges, contradictions, and soul-longings weren’t random—but precisely the mission you were born to fulfill?

In a recent class exploring the Kabbalistic teachings on Gilgulim (reincarnations), we entered a spiritual conversation that spans worlds and lifetimes. Drawing from the writings of Rabbi Avraham Azulai in Chesed L’Avraham, we began to map out the complex journey of the soul—from its root in Adam HaRishon, through fragmentation, exile, and eventual return.

A Universe of Sparks

When Adam, Cain, and Hevel sinned, their souls shattered into countless sparks—each lodged within spiritual husks, the klipot. These sparks are our soul roots, and they must return to this world generation after generation to be healed, uplifted, and reintegrated.

Each soul is composed of many parts—Nefesh, Ruach, Neshamah, and beyond. And just like the physical body has limbs and organs, so too does the soul have spiritual “limbs.” One life might be dedicated to repairing the spark of the hands, another the eyes, another the heart. We’re not here randomly. Each of us has come now, in this exact moment, because we hold the sparks of this generation’s mission.

This Generation’s Unique Role

We are called Ikveta d’Mashicha, the “heels of Mashiach”—the final generation before redemption. But don’t let the term “heels” fool you. Just as the heel supports the entire body, our souls are carrying the accumulated work of thousands of years. In fact, the Arizal teaches that many of us are the reincarnations of the generation that stood at Mount Sinai—Dor De’ah, the generation of deep da’at (conscious knowledge).

The explosion of knowledge today—technological, spiritual, and mystical—is not an accident. Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern goes so far as to say that the internet itself is the rectification of the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, the Chet Etz HaDa’at. Just as the Tree contained both good and evil, today’s access to information requires profound discernment. We’re constantly choosing between da’at of holiness and da’at of ego. And every choice counts.

Healing the Collective Soul

Our work isn’t just personal. We are part of a massive soul body—the collective neshamah of Adam HaRishon. Each one of us is a spark within a larger organ or limb of that soul. Some of us come from the “head,” others the “heart,” others the “feet.” And just like the soul body, each generation has its own unique cluster of sparks to refine.

This explains why we each have such different strengths and contradictions. As one participant shared, she’s both an engineer and a healer. Others spoke about their pull toward education, helping the homeless, or healing communication wounds. These aren’t random career paths—they’re soul paths. They reflect past life gifts, traumas, and rectifications unfolding in this life.

And sometimes, parts of our soul are dormant. Only one spark may be active in a given incarnation, while the rest hovers around us as Ibur, a kind of soul impregnation. This is why we sometimes intuit truths we never studied. It’s your soul remembering what your mind forgot.

The Trauma of This Generation—and Its Power

Many of us carry intense traumas. Pain that feels too big for one lifetime. According to the teachings of Gilgulim, that’s not accidental. We are here to heal not only ourselves but entire soul families. And sometimes, that requires descending into the darkest places to rescue the most hidden sparks.

The trauma is real. And yet, when we know there is meaning to it—when we can see ourselves as part of a longer journey—we find strength. As Viktor Frankl taught, meaning is what enables survival.

We Are All in This Together

This journey is not solitary. The collective body of souls means that every mitzvah we do reverberates through the entire system. When you choose kindness, connection, or truth, you not only elevate yourself—you uplift the network.

Sometimes, even just a moment of teshuvah (return) is enough. One heartbeat of longing. One choice toward light. That’s how close redemption truly is.