There are many actions one must perform as he prepares for spirituality. After crossing the Machsom, there are also various spiritual actions: “Ibur” (the embryo state), “Leida” (spiritual birth), “Enika” (feeding), “Mochin” (big state)—that is, big (Gadlut) and small (Katnut) states. When a person is already in spirituality and senses the Divine, he also goes […]
“And a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, ‘What are you seeking?’ And he said, ‘I seek my brothers. Tell me, I pray you, where they are feeding the flock?’ A man “wandering in the field” refers to a place from which the […]
Comment: The neurons that make up our brain function as logic gates. They are adapted to reflect the logic that exists in nature and reproduce it in the brain and nervous system. Therefore, they can sense when the information reaching them does not correspond to that logic. It seems to me that if a person […]
Comment: You say that history has nothing to do with spirituality. My Response: I was never particularly interested in history, and I absolutely hated it in school. The only aspect that eventually interested me was when I began to understand history from the perspective of the development of the human egoism, the force that determines […]
Question: Is the connection with the Creator expressed in prayer or in the answer to prayer? Answer: The answer to a prayer depends on the prayer itself. There is nothing that we do not request from below; only the form in which the answer arrives takes depends on the requester’s level of development. Let us […]
When I am in an ascent, I want to be a faithful servant of the Creator; in other words, I attach all of Malchut to Bina. This is the difference between Tzimtzum (restriction), Masach (screen), and Ohr Hozer (reflected light). Tzimtzum occurs only on Malchut and stems from egoistic shame in order to avoid the […]
Question: How can one increase one’s power of overcoming when an even greater egoistic desire is revealed? Answer: All of a person’s qualities, no matter how they may seem to him, from good to the very worst, are revealed within the framework of a general system of souls moving toward unity according to the program […]
Question: A pack of wolves can take care of a disabled, crippled, or old animal. They feed him chewed food like puppies and can even catch fleas from him. But there is an addition here anyway: “In a hungry year, the pack cannot take on the responsibility of feeding elderly animals. And the elderly accept […]
When I restrict myself in order to care for my neighbor, I am not secretly worried about my own well-being. I simply do not think about myself. This correction is performed within me by the light. This is what it means to rise above the desire, to carry out the first restriction, and to acquire […]
The Creator is the force of bestowal and love, and for one who loves, there is immense suffering in not having the opportunity to bring contentment to the one they love. The suffering from unrealized bestowal is far greater than from not receiving, as it is written: “More than the calf wants to suckle, the […]
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