Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Chasidut for Bava Batra 147:7

רבי יוחנן משתעי זימנא חדא הוה קא אזלינן בספינתא וחזינן ההוא כוורא דאפקיה לרישיה מימא ודמיין עייניה כתרי סיהרי ונפוץ מיא מתרתי זימיה כתרי מברי דסורא רב ספרא משתעי זימנא חדא הוה קא אזלינן בספינתא וחזינן ההוא כוורא דאפקיה לרישיה מימא והוה ליה קרני וחקיק עליה אנא בריה קלה שבים והוינא תלת מאה פרסי ואזילנא לפומא דלויתן אמר רב אשי ההוא עיזא דימא הוא דבחישא ואית לה קרני

I saw two cracks that emitted smoke. I took a piece of clipped wool, dipped it in water, attached it to the point of a spear and let it in there. And when I took it out it was singed. [Thereupon] he said unto me: 'Listen attentively [to] what you [are about to] hear.' And I heard them say: 'Moses and his Torah are truth and we<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and they'. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> are liars.' He said unto me: 'Every thirty days Gehenna<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] place of punishment for the wicked after death. Originally the name of a glen near Jerusalem, [H] where children were burned in the worship of Moloch. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> causes them to turn back here as [one turns] flesh in a pot,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They are stirred in Hell as meat is stirred round and round in a boiling pot. ');"><sup>20</sup></span>

Likutei Halakhot

This is because the path of authentic humility is not to consider oneself a completely wicked person, G-d Forbid, and to belittle the value of one’s holy soul, but on the contrary, to know and believe that one’s soul at its source extremely great, precious and exalted, and that ‘ many countless thousands and myriads of worlds without measure depend upon it. As Rabbeinu z"l said, if one could turn a human being inside out, one would see how thousands and myriads of worlds are dependent upon each and every part of the human body, as the greatness of the human being, representing the image of God, is explained in other texts. And even the lowliest Jewish soul is also...
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