Page 41 – last quarter of the page (line starts “shehaetzem gufah...”).
The new entity is created in the form of being separate from the etzem. Like a part of the essence separating from it, or a spark leaping off a flame.
In a cult they are attempting to have a superimposed affect on their members and their thoughts are no longer sourced in their souls. Their whole reality changes. This is not hashpaa/mentorship. In a cult the student becomes totally enslaved/attached. In real mentorship the only way it works is if the student is a separate entity. He has to find it in his own soul and ask questions.
A child is reflective of the parents, but a healthy child has to become as independent as the parents. The child doesn't break away, it is part of his original mentorship to be separate.
Rabbi was talking with a mother about raising her children. He said, don't say, “mommy will be happy if....” since then the child's attachment is to you and not to the real thing.
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| p 41, last quarter, ayinbase, rebbe rashab (right click to enlarge) |
Talking about etzem/essence: it is a super worldly element. There is nothing in the world that is essential. In the world all is temporary. If the father has essence and bestows it to the child, why is he not here forever? Since he's a soul in a body and the body is not essential and the essence of the soul is not dressed in the body. Essence is a G-dly inyan. Essence is something that exists 'of itself', without a source. This is G-dliness. Because the world is a G-dly creation directly, and not an evolutionary product based on reaction and survival, therefore it has a G-dly element which doesn't dissapate. This is why during a human life he is an essence (the union of soul and body is a G-dly miracle).
Sight has two aspects, 1. I see it and 2. it is shown to me. 'It is being shown to me' is of a far higher level. There is something real. There is reality beyond what I see. This is true of a person's existence in the world. One makes a vessel, but He wills it that there is a connection between body and soul – that is the reality of the human being. This is not graspable by the sechel/mind.
Life is infinitely valuable/venerable. An additional moment of life is priceless. It is a miracle, it is not worldly phenomenon/currency.
Only in a physical entity can there be a transfer of essence.
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