You can ask about the meaning of your life as a whole or also ask about the meaning of particular events and the meaning of certain time periods.
Sometimes certain events are begging for commentary. Sometimes the meaning is all too clear.
For me it seems better to look at certain time periods as defined by geographical location.
However if I try to define the meaning of certain time periods, I find they contradict. [Or they seem to contradict.]
If I look at the period I was in the Mir in NY-the lesson seems awesomely clear--learn Torah. But if I look at later periods the lessons seem to get lost or at least diluted. The answer to this contradiction I find in the period I was growing up in my parent's home --that is the lessons of balance and to be a "mensch" Or as the Sages put it טוב תורה עם דרך ארץ and דרך ארץ קדמה לתורה
Good traits and manners comes before Torah. Torah is good with good traits.
Even though listening to hints from what happens to you in your life is one good lesson, still there is a larger issue of figuring out the meaning of your life in terms of whole sections. The time you were in high school, and later on periods.
Sometimes certain events are begging for commentary. Sometimes the meaning is all too clear.
For me it seems better to look at certain time periods as defined by geographical location.
However if I try to define the meaning of certain time periods, I find they contradict. [Or they seem to contradict.]
If I look at the period I was in the Mir in NY-the lesson seems awesomely clear--learn Torah. But if I look at later periods the lessons seem to get lost or at least diluted. The answer to this contradiction I find in the period I was growing up in my parent's home --that is the lessons of balance and to be a "mensch" Or as the Sages put it טוב תורה עם דרך ארץ and דרך ארץ קדמה לתורה
Good traits and manners comes before Torah. Torah is good with good traits.
Even though listening to hints from what happens to you in your life is one good lesson, still there is a larger issue of figuring out the meaning of your life in terms of whole sections. The time you were in high school, and later on periods.
