Quotes from Jewish Mysticism

Lihavin Inyan 5730

GOD/YOU

The Rebbe Maharash says that our body is actually God (for we know that the physical can only exist as it is literally God – now you can ask, how can you say something physical is God, for God is non-physical, but as God is unlimited, hence He manifests Himself – as we now know about atoms, that they are actually remarkably both here and not, as well as simultaneously existing in different locations/states, which indicate the property of God/unlimited.)

GREATNESS OF EARTH

It is only on earth that we truly appreciate how great God is (though the Rebbe didn’t say the following, however it appears to me that perhaps what this means is, in heaven they think they are “close,” hence “know” God, which is a joke, as the finite (for we are our mind, hence as the mind is finite, all it knows is the little bit of information  it perceives (this would be like a child who is full and thinks he ate all the worlds food.)

ACTIVATING NETZACH (THE DESIRE TO WIN)

As our soul descends into such a pit (relative to heaven) hence in order to be able to overcome (the myriad challenges to be good, nice, decent, fulfill the Divine will) we must use the emotion of desiring to win.

 

When we activate this emotion for God, goodness etc. we draw down the Divine power (to win.)

EARTH/HEAVEN

The Maagid teaches that all that above exists, due to you (in other words, our desire for good manifests the heavenly one, so to say.)

BELOW/ABOVE

Furthermore, through the good we do below, we cause so to speak that God himself becomes (for it is like a mirror system.)

TORAH/CONDUIT

The Torah is the conduit which being Divine, hence though it may descend into our realm, it contains the infinity, goodness, in an untarnished state.

TORAH/DIVINE

Though there are myriads of concealments for the Torah to descend into human intellect, especially being put into a printed (or written on the parchment etc.) form, nonetheless, as it is Divine, it is as holy.

YOU/MOSES/REVERENCE (FOR GOD)

As the soul of Moses is within every Jew (for soul sparks can go into infinite – like a candle lighting many – others) hence to achieve the level of reverence for God as Moses had, isn’t very difficult.

TORAH/MOSHIACH

As God only gave one Torah, hence even the “new Torah that will be revealed when Moshiach comes” was already in a concealed form – which the Arizal, Baal Shem Tov, Alter Rebbe and subsequent Rebbes began to reveal – the beginning of the Torah of Moshiach.