Sayings Of The Maagid
By zevi770 · January 12, 2017
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Everything God made he did in a male / giver, female / receiver mechanism.
God is the male, in that he firsts gives, then by us being wise and doing good, this gives him a pleasure; so we are the female / receiver from God, and when we do good, we then become the male / giver and God the female / receiver.
The following is my understanding of an exceptionally deep concept:
It seems to me that ultimately what we must understand is, the final messianic destiny is that instead of our ego and desires playing our thoughts… for our thoughts must come from a source…. we will allow the Divine soul, the source of all, to be our thoughts.
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The Tzaddik is like a child who from great love always wishes to be close to his father – therefore the Tzaddik will always keep his mind on Divinity.
There are two Yetzer Hara’s – There is the passion for bad and then there is the sloth to do good; and corresponding to this is a passion to do good and the sloth to do bad.
You can only change something at its source (in other words you cannot deal with symptoms only causes.)
Not sinning is also doing good.
It seems (deep concept, so hope I understand) the Maagid is teaching that the ultimate state (which Jacob employed to beat Esav, the evil desires) is not fiery passion for good (as we know, all passion, can like a fire quickly shift (into destruction)) nor ice-cold emotion (to not sin, for one needs some fire) rather, like a low flame which in this way a person is able to always monitor themselves.
As the Tzaddik has a pure heart and as our breath comes from our heart, hence when the Tzaddik utters any word, this word touches the Purity of the Divine and immediately gets reflected (hence he acts as a conduit.)
Hence there is no need for any other activity (for the Tzaddik, through his pure heart and holy words, and the whole world is established through words – the Divine letters, and as his words create the Divine letters, thus he is the conduit – and can there be, anything more valuable, necessary, pure, and good?!~)
(Again, deep concept but what I think is being taught:) There are vessels in vessels, hence the holy words of the Tzaddik which are formed of letters, not only elevate the letters of holiness, which easily ascend, but they bring with them those same letters used for unholiness, and then the Divine energy reciprocates.
It is God’s infinite love, that he continually removes all his great infinite light – for if he would arrive in his “self,” like a toaster being plugged into a nuclear reactor… – hence the many tzimtzumim that need to minimize the energy.
It is only through this infinite humility (what is called Tzimtzum / God’s humbling of self) that our universe continuously is able to exist (as we now know scientifically, how though it is an insane amount, yet nonetheless a limited amount of energy, that each atom possesses.)
The Tzaddik has the ability to cause the flow of Divinity from its essential non-physical essence down to the very most physical (and as the Rebbe teaches in Ateh Tetzaveh that when the Tzaddik’s people do his will – revealing their own Divinity – then this gives the Tzaddik his ability.)