New – Saying of the Holy Maagid

 

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Imagine someone who goes to  a town in order to purchase goods as he wishes to be able to bring the merchandise home to sell it in support of his family – yet when he goes to the town he daydreams – similarly this entire world is created in order, like the son of a king who is trapped in a dungeon and special forces are sent to return him to his father – hence the multitude of different physical pleasures, thoughts, fantasies, are all in essence a part of the Divine – as all must come from God – so when we take the emotions of pleasure for the negative and use them for love toward God, then we bring God happiness.

 

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Behind every bad is a great good and just knowing this can cause the good to manifest.

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Our sages state that God and the Torah are one – but as God is infinite and the Torah limited (as it comes in dimensions, say 613, etc.) how can this be?

 

The example is of an artist who paints a beautiful painting or a singer who sings a beautiful song, this certainly doesn’t limit them – for they can paint and sing indefinitely.

 

 

By causing oneself a complete and total self-nothingness, one elevates everything.

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As the world was created through the letters of the Torah (for as we know it was these very letters that are the energy that forms the matter, like e=m) hence when one studies with love and reverence, they literally fasten (cause Divine energy to flow to) the world.