“Your Soul is not a Means to an End!” p: 50

Monday, August 1, 2011

“Your Soul is not a Means to an End!” p: 50

AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 50 8/1/11 Monday 1 MenachemAv 5771

Page 50 – 4th line from the end of the page.

The soul has faculties and strengths that cannot be fathomed.

How do we know these things exists if we can't relate to them? There are 2 ways to address this. One is by proof which is peripheral. But secondly if we have a soul, where do we experience it? Even the fact that you can conceptualize truth is already a proof. Relating to the Torah view of the world is not worldly – it is a soul reality.

p 50, AyinBase, Rebbe Rashab (right click to enlarge)

This is an immediate truth that we live with. We have stories from our Rebbe – miracles and actions unbounded by worldly measure. One hears these stories and it may drive you crazy. Why don't we go crazy? Because we can relate to them – we live in a G-dly world.

Souls are true and infinite. They go down from world to world, till this lowest world where they are dressed in a physical body. Thus the soul can no longer function independently of the body, but within the limits of the body. The body is limiting the realizations that the soul can experience. In the world per se there is not a direct recognition of G-dliness. Yet everywhere and in every world the soul does not change at essence. This is the miracle. Aynah mshtneh betzem hehutah!

You may think enlivening the body becomes the souls definition, but no, while in the body the soul remains a G-dly entity!

The souls are all part of Him and can thus undergo this journey. All the souls fit with each other and have one Father.

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The power of the name...

In everything there is how this thing pertains to itself and how it represents itself. This representation is really a secondary element in this presence – that it can be viewed from outside and that it represents itself. There is a deep element - you would think that we can represent ourselves any way we want – this is politics, but this is a perversion. Really there is an essential element in a person to represent himself. This is the power of a name – it is an external thing, but at the same time it touches his essence. A person has a body and soul – the purpose of the soul in the body is not for itself, but to express itself outside...! ~ Shiur Sunday 8.22.2010

Light Power

All that came into being...

...all the created worlds and all the ethereal entities that live in them, even the worlds that are mere emanations without tangible substance, even the worlds of thought and beyond to the realms of infinite light that preceded Creation...

--all this came to be only as a result of the thought of you, the earthly being, struggling in a world that only a infinitesimal glimmer of G-dliness has reached in its purity, bringing light where light could not be.

And so it follows, that with one simple act of beauty, all those worlds and realms of light find their purpose fulfilled, and so shine yet brighter--and reciprocate with a burst of illumination into our lowly world.

That is why the entire creation can be transformed with one simple, sincere deed.

Never underestimate the power of light.

From the wisdom of the Rebbe. Words by Tzvi Freeman

Tools of the trade (Glossary)

(… to be continued and developed…)

· Bechinat – aspect

· Keili – vessel/container

· Ohr – light (pl: Ohrot or Orot)

· Hitlabshut – enclothement

· Kodesh – holy (lit: removed)

· Shaichus - connection

· Madrega – level

· Etzem – essence

· Muvdal – removed/separated

· Koach – power (as in koach reiya – the power of sight. Pl: kochot)

· Dibur – speech

· Machshavah – thought

· Myseh – action

· Malchus – kingship

· Kesser – crown, encompassing level

· Etzem – essence

· Mekabel – recipient

· Mashpia – giver / mentor

· Misromem – exalted

· Oh ein sof – infinite light

· Melech – king

· Meturgeman – translator / intermediary

· Tammuz – a Hebrew month

· Rav – teacher

· Sechel – mind

In the world - Beyond the world - Exodus - Shattering and Refinement

Hayom Yom (25 Tevet):

"From my father's discourses we see that Exodus from Egypt means leaving limitations and bounds, and Chassidus is to enable man to leave the restrictions of the material world.

There is a difference: The Egyptian Exodus means shattering and then departure. We went away from Egypt.

The Chassidic Exodus means purification and correction, stepping out of worldly limitations and bounds while remaining in the the world.

This means, that while functioning within the world we must transcend its limitations. We are to remove the limitations and bounds, and perceive the truth - that the world per se is truly good, since, after all, the natural world is what G-d intended.

This is attained through the Avoda (work) of Chassidus."

Notes: When society and environment ("world" in chassidic usage) conflict with Torah, there may be a reaction of withdrawal from "world" and its affairs. Extreme monastic withdrawal is rejected by Torah.
Chassidus advocates being "within world," involvement in the normal routines of family and occupation for example, but refusing subservience to the values and principles of "world."

The Jew's values are to be Torah's while he functions in the marketplace or laboratory. He utilizes the opportunities and challenges of "world" to subordinate and use worldly affairs for Torah ideals, values and goals.

He will do this intellectually when confronting concepts that appear not to be consonant with Torah, and also by observing Mitzvot in inhospitable circumstances.

While functioning in this environment he is apart from it, refusing to be dominated or intimidated by it.

Stand, Walk and Jump - Daily Chassidus

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“Your Soul is not a Means to an End!” p: 50

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