32 New Sayings of the Maagid

96

 

The way God made the world, everything is male/giver female/receiver – this occurs in the three main “hemispheres” of man, time and space; for example, the first male and female are the source of all subsequent; the first six days of creation are the cycle which all subsequent days continue from – now when God creates a miracle, such as the exodus / Pesach, this event gets repeated through each Pesach.

 

Now the Jewish people have been given the power of speech – the power that their speech creates – hence when the Jews retell (as our commandment on Pesach) the story, this reenacts, reenergizes, and remanifests, the original positive miracles etc.

 

Hence it is a great deed to on every festival speak of the content, the lesson, for this manifests.

 

97

 

From the final act we witness the original intent – for example, someone who wishes to build a home, when the home is finished, we witness the purpose of the contractors etc.

 

Hence the final intent of the exodus, was the giving of the Torah, for God to integrate.

 

The final intent in creation, is for the Jewish people.

 

Now Abram, Isaac and Jacob were those who manifested the Divine, however as Kabbalah teaches, God reacts; hence Abraham who had an intense love for God manifested God’s love; Isaac, an intense fear/awe manifested God’s dread; and Jacob (the best of the forefathers, as we are taught) manifested the traits of compassion (which discerns.)

 

98

 

The goal is to understand what is the gaol, and what is every things goal

 

99

 

There are two forms of love, there is the love that a parent has that causes them to give, then there is the love a parent has that causes them to discipline.

 

The purpose of creation is for the Jewish people – however as they cannot receive this infinite love, God had to hide it sometimes in discipline.

 

100

 

There are two forms of love: there is the love a father has for the wisdom of his child, and then there is the essential love, hence all the child does is lovable – similarly, there is the love God has for our good, and then there is the love simply has.

 

101

What do you serve? – for everything you find attractive is your master – to whom should you?

 

102

 

Only a fool seeks power – for a wise person seeks to learn.

 

103

 

We should pray that G-d’s glory should become universally acknowledged.

 

104

 

G-d receives great pleasure from our good – there was the foresight in which God saw the Tzaddikim (perfectly righteous) and for them God created, however it is the people who slip up, repent (Baal Teshuvah) that sustains (for the pleasure must be renewed.)

 

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106

 

Our eyes have the power to make or break – when you look at something and understand that it is God, (for the energy of all matter, and all you look at is matter, is God) you then manifest God, hence blessings.

 

If this is the case, one can ask, why would God make a self-identity – the ego? – The answer is, had we not had an independent desire to fulfill our desires, we wouldn’t – hence to begin, we must be born and acquire a powerful self-drive – then we temper this through submission, and in this way we become kind.

 

107

 

Once there was a servant who took a prince captive – now the prince wished to connect to his father, hence he began to think, about the pleasure his father has in positive judgments – yet the servant wished to get drunk – so he took his captive to a bar – there the two sat and drank, the former thinking about alcohol, the latter, allowing the alcohol to connect him even deeper.

 

Similarly, when a Jew prays, God says that a prayer in which one is attached to the Divine joy… – in other words, a person should always seek to attach themselves to the Divine pleasure (hence whenever encountering even food etc. the pleasure must be only from the Divine) Then the kelipos begin to attack – however within the kelipos are obviously sparks of Divinity (for without these sparks, they couldn’t exist) hence the clever person realizes that in actual fact these sparks compel the kelipos, for they, seeking to be elevated wish that the person instead of using the pleasure (for example thought of making money etc.) for selfish pleasure, one extracts the pleasure for Divine pleasure.

 

So in truth both the kelipos as well as God are happy.

 

108

 

One can only understand a wise person, for his speech has wisdom.

 

 

 

Why is it that “small” sins a person is accustomed to, one never repents, yet very large sins, a person immediately does? the answer is, that in the large sins lie a powerful Divinity (for the darker something is, ironically the more it must be sourced in light – hence by engaging in this darkness, the spark has an immediate positive effect.

 

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110

 

For something to change, it must go to its source, like a kernel of wheat, for it to start transforming, grow and create more, it must be planted in the ground and there it rots and its dna connects with its source, the earth, and the miracle of transformation begins – similarly, when we realize we are our soul, and our soul is God; in this humility, we let go of our foreign lust and fears, and all our emotions are directed to God.

 

111

 

The purpose of creation is for the Jewish people and all the angels and everything created were put under their dominion – the example of this is for one who wishes to build a home – hence everything done to create the home, though it precedes the home, is only for the home – similarly a branch can only express what is contained in its root.

 

112

 

The closer one gets to God, the more their thoughts and light shine – as we find that Reb Yehoishua paskened (adjudicated) a halacha (law) different to th heavenly voice and God said, my children have overcome.

 

113

 

All that exists is only out of love, for the state of existence is a state of concealment – for from God’s infinity to any particular, must come world upon worlds, in which the infinite light progressively diminishes – so what caused this sequence? – God’s love, (for if he has not diminished the light, we couldn’t exist.)

 

116

 

When someone sins, they must afterwards find that object repulsive and reprehensible (for example, if some sinned via eating something not kosher, as it was attractive and practically someone who engaged in pornography or negative sexual behavior or drugs, by now viewing that as something which one finds disgusting, this extracts the holy sparks (for all matter must contain holy sparks, though it is descended into unholiness) thereby elevating those sparks – so in point of fact, the more one descended, the greater their ability.)

 

117

The flow of energy always contains three dimensions, there is the giver, the receiver, and the point of connection (for example, Shabbos gives energy to the weekday, so: there is the Divinity, there is Shabbos and then by the Jew celebrating, he then has energy.)

 

120

 

All flows of Divine blessings, come through the Tzaddik – now though God speaks to his prophets, nonetheless, if they have a good heart, then when they hear a negative (as we find Moses did) they pray, and this prayer transforms it into a blessing.

 

121

 

A song can transform.

 

122

 

We need to be conscious and eagerly await the time for when we can do a Mitzvah – for example, if you have someone to help.

 

123

 

In everything there is the Divine spark / soul – someone with a good eye, can see it.

 

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As Abraham had a good eye, when he was young he could see the Divinity in the sun, in the moon etc. but when they fell (set,) he realized, that their Divinity, comes from a single all-encompassing source – so he thought “why should I serve the Divinity in the sun or moon, when I can serve the source?” – and then he came to the true knowledge, that even what one can comprehend of the singular source is nothing, as it is infinite.

 

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Our sages teach, if one keeps the Shabbos properly, even if he sins previously in idolatry, he is forgiven.

 

Why?

 

Shabbos relates to taking pleasure (in the Divine.)

 

Now the reason people have pleasure, is when they understand something – hence in the dimensions of Divine wisdom where understanding is given, this is directly related to the Divine (therefore as opposed to the act of revering the physical (idolatry) he revers the spirit.)

 

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Our sages teach, if one speaks wasted words (chit-chats) one sins.

 

How come?

 

The answer is, the entire purpose of the physical domain is that within it are sparks of God (Divine souls) and it is our task to elevate these sparks – hence, if one finds one has spoken wasted words, one should consider how to use words for higher purposes (for through repentance, one elevates not only the present and the future, but the past -As it was the precursor and cause of the transformation.)

 

This is so fundamental, for the gentile philosophers cannot understand why God wishes to be served on earth? as they feel earth is lowly and God is high; hence, why would he wish to be here? – yet, the example for this is from the drop of semen of the father, which originates in his thought (his highest self) comes a child – now in this child are both the good and the bad, and the entire goal of the parent is for the child to accentuate the good on earth.

 

124

 

Love is a reaction, hence as Abraham had such a strong love for God, God reacted and blessed him, as we see.

 

One of the most important notions is the belief that every Mitzvah / good deed etc. you do, brings tremendous pleasure to God.

 

Now though one brings this pleasure, one shouldn’t get arrogant, for ultimately it is God who enables.

 

125

 

A king who is solely loving wouldn’t be harsh, accept if one was harsh to his children – hence we see why God treated the Egyptians harshly.

 

A practical lesson from this is – that though God is loving (or perhaps precisely because) if one harms another, he will (like a mother who sees her child being harmed) turn harsh.

 

126

 

God doesn’t move, for only that which is a subject of time/space does.

 

131

 

There are two Torahs, the higher and lower, and as we know all that comes from higher descends lower, hence the general Torah (Mitzvos) is what we refer to – but the higher Torah namely how every moment and every act can be positive (“Know God in all your ways”) this is the higher.

 

This Torah (lesson was not finished – however as the idea is profound..) In everything there is wisdom for Rabbah said, he was not able to properly focus as his mind didn’t expand from the pleasure derived from his usual meat meal – now if meat can help a person’s mind expand (though the pleasure deirived) this means that on some level it has a connection to the wisdom though it is concealed and the ox eats from the herbage which comes from the ground – namely that there is wisdom (albeit concealed) in all dimensions.

 

133

 

Someone wrote to the Maggid that he doesn’t know which Nusach to Daven; As there are variations – so the Maagid answered, that the Beis Hamikdosh below corresponded to the Beis Hamikdosh above, and there were 13 gates to enter, each with the name of one of the twelve tribes, and a thirteenth for any person – for the idea of prayer is, it is a ladder connecting man below to his source above; hence if one is familiar with his source, one should go through his gate, but the holy Ari made a siddur (Tehillas Hashem etc.) in which every soul can elevate.

 

134

 

The entire purpose of creation and the Mitzvos is that one should do so with a passion for it is this passion (which shows one loves – for if someone is forced to do something it is done with zero passion) that demonstrates one’s enthusiasm.

 

If one does God’s will enthusiastically, as in the source there is no separation as water and fire bot coem form God haenc ehtis gives man th abaty to transfrom (bad ot good.)

 

Be very hard and very soft; hard on yourself (not harsh but stern, for your body is a crazy addict, as one of the foremost experts on addiction teaches, that we are born addicts, as Kabbalah teaches, our natural disposition is to whatever feels good (and conversely phobia of whatever feels bad/pain) however often we do good not because he have so decided rather because we have been bullied – a bully never thinks he is a bully, rather a bully is delusional (as they themselves have been shamed, hence they create a false delusional identity, in which they see themselves as the best, hence all bullies are egotistical) and in their delusion of grandeur they feel entitled to demean (Obama is a good example, for even if you have a point you have no right…)

 

135

 

The generation prior to the flood made the mistake of worshiping the constellations, for they figured that these beings being close to earth, hence would have more direct understanding, while the truth is, that these beings are stuck in their space, whereas God is simultaneously in all.

 

137

 

All revelation comes in the mechanism of arriving and not – in other words, a revelation, like a beautiful sunset, must on one hand be awe-inspiring, yet simultaneously be beyond grasp (who can truly  comprehend all its hues etc. (and this fact, that it is beyond comprehension, itself is the revelation.)

 

138

 

The mistake of the generation (Enosh) who started worshiping idols is figuring that the heavenly angels – ministers (constellations) that were put in charge of certain natural functions are the closer to our realm – however God is unlike a regular king who due to his limitation, must use ministers – rather God is completely within every atom, every person.

 

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The one who comes close to the Shechinah (the Godliness that comes to man) is the one who is close – and though it is the greatest of descents (for God) yet a humble person treats all as if they are a V.I.P.