“Light & Flow” p131

“God blew your soul into you.  It is not a created entity.  Your soul is ‘of Himself’.  The soul/neshamah is an essence [atzmi].  Thus there is no limit to what the soul can reach, and to what it can comprehend.“

“Light & Flow” p131

AYIN BASE - REBBE RASHAB - with R’ PALTIEL - 5778

P 131 (of the pamphlet) 2nd paragraph from top of the page. Line starts, “u’l’havin” [P 95 of the book]

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We are going to look at the difference between light [ohr] and flow [shefa].

The kabbalasits speak from the perspective of Godliness and they mostly use the word ‘light’.  The Jewish philosophers tend to use the word ‘flow’. 

Both indicate input from a source.  The word flow [shefa] - like water that flows - points to an identifiable element that is given from the mentor to the recipient.  Like the giving of a coin from the wealthy to the poor. 

The flow - shefa is due to the recipients’s position, not the giver’s position.  

A real mentor gives from who he is.  He gives over what he has lived through - he indicates not information, but actual personal terms.