everything you need to know (to live)
By zevi770 · January 18, 2016
the first thing you need to know, is that based on all the records of human history that we have – you will die – if you are over fifty, you will most likely be dead within fifty years
If you are under fifty, you will most likely be dead in a hundred years
this important sobering fact that you are simply a biological organism infused as God says – he should know, after all- with “the breath of life in a body” which as our sages teach, “the skin begins to dry from the emergence from the womb” should give you pause to ask the next good question – Why
Why am I here, Why did God make me?
When we think we are eternal we have no need to ask why, for why not ?
However, when we realize that we are temporary, we then begin to question, Is it even worth it??
So the first answer to that question is, if you know why God made you temporary, you can imbue your temporary existence with eternal meaning! – then and only then will it become worth it! IF HOWEVER YOU LIVE LIKE MOST ANIMALS AND HUMANS HAVE – A PURELY BIOLOGICAL LIFE, HENCE WHEN YOUR BIOLOGY STOPS, YOUR LIFE AS YOU KNOW IT WILL ETERNALY VANISH!
ACCORDING TO JEWISH MYSTICISM, THERE ARE THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW – THE FIRST IS, THOUGH YOU ARE TEMPORARY, GOD IS ETERNAL; THE SECOND IS, THOUGH YOU SEEM TEMPORARY, IN POINT OF FACT THERE IS A LAYER OF REALITY (WHICH AS EINSTEIN TAUGHT “MATTER CAN NEITHER BE CREATED NOR DESTROYED”) WHICH IS PERMANET AND SO TEMPORARILY YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO INFUSE THE BOTTOM LAYER WITH THE TOP LIGHT.
YES. THAT IS OUR ROLE IN THIS WORLD, TO BRING LIGHT INTO DARKNESS, LOVE INTO HUMAN HEARTS
FOR THOUGH YOU CANNOT SEE IT, THOUGH YOU MAY NOT REALIZE IT – ALL OF MATTER IS REALLY ENERGY, AND ENERGY AS KABBALAH TEACHES (AND AS WE CAN NOW TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS, GOOGLE- EMOTO) WILL ALWAYS EXIST IN ONE OF THREE STATES – THE MOST NATURAL STATE IS NEUTRAL – LIKE A STOP SIGN, SIMPLY A SHAPE – NEITHER PRETTY, NOR UGLY, NEITHER BEAUTIFUL NOR DANGEROUS – HOWEVER PUT A BIT OF MAGIC AND THE HEXEGON TURNS INTO A SNOWFLAKE, FILLED WITH VIBRANCY, BURSTING WITH LIFE, PULSATING WITH COMPASSION – THE SAME IS TRUE OF THE HUMAN HEART – AS WE ARE BORN, WE ARE IN TRUTH NEITHER HERE NOR THERE – TRUE, WE HAVE INSTINCTUAL NEEDS BUT THOSE THEMSELVES MEAN NOTHING, AS WE MENTIONED BEFORE ON THE NATURE OF TEMPORARY BIOLOGY – BUT PUT INTO THE EQUATION LOVE, PURPOSE; AND SUDDENLY, THE SAME SHAPE TRASFORMS INTO A BEAUTIFUL BALL OF LIGHT