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Maybe we are mistaken in trying to hear the voice of God with our body faculties, what we should be trying to do is hear God with our souls and have our souls transmit the voice to our body.
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Showing posts with label body. Show all posts
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Hear the Voice of God
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Simple very effective meditation
HH
There is a very simple technique to really soothe and relax your body and mind. Simply sit comfortably and address each and every single part of your body individually, and tell it to loosen up and relax - there are some that suggest to first tell it to flex and tense up and then tell it to relax - and so one categorically addresses every muscle, bone, joint and whatever - you will feel and experience empirically how this simple dialogue works wonders.
Rabbainu said you should talk to your limbs, tell them to fear and be in awe of Hashem! Tell them that they aren't in the world for very much longer, and soon they will be rotting in the grave... Tell them about the aspect of Moshe Rabbainu - the utter humility - that is cloaked in them.
These are two paradigms; the external paradigm (of these two, but very much internal compared to the other consciousnesses) is fear and awe - יראת ה' - the fear and awe of Hashem - Yiras - is numerical value 611 together with nefesh and ruach (two yichudim of Hava'ya Adny and Hava'ya Elokim) equal the 613 components of the body - (see Yichud Ha'yeeru of Ramachal). The inner paradigm is the humility which is the paradigm that is resurrected - as explained in Likutay Moharan.
[The level of Yiru, I think can be correlated with the 2nd level of the general yichud explained in the Ramchal's kavanos for the prayers, and the level of humility, which culminates with mem vuv = 100 through Moshe Rabbainu, as explained at the end of Yichud Ha'yeeru, is the complete yichud described there - the 3rd level].
Based on this principle I put together some conversations one might like to have with the different parts of his body in this little book:
Pray With Your Limbs & Other Devotions of a Nanach
https://www.createspace.com/6508295
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
There is a very simple technique to really soothe and relax your body and mind. Simply sit comfortably and address each and every single part of your body individually, and tell it to loosen up and relax - there are some that suggest to first tell it to flex and tense up and then tell it to relax - and so one categorically addresses every muscle, bone, joint and whatever - you will feel and experience empirically how this simple dialogue works wonders.
Rabbainu said you should talk to your limbs, tell them to fear and be in awe of Hashem! Tell them that they aren't in the world for very much longer, and soon they will be rotting in the grave... Tell them about the aspect of Moshe Rabbainu - the utter humility - that is cloaked in them.
These are two paradigms; the external paradigm (of these two, but very much internal compared to the other consciousnesses) is fear and awe - יראת ה' - the fear and awe of Hashem - Yiras - is numerical value 611 together with nefesh and ruach (two yichudim of Hava'ya Adny and Hava'ya Elokim) equal the 613 components of the body - (see Yichud Ha'yeeru of Ramachal). The inner paradigm is the humility which is the paradigm that is resurrected - as explained in Likutay Moharan.
[The level of Yiru, I think can be correlated with the 2nd level of the general yichud explained in the Ramchal's kavanos for the prayers, and the level of humility, which culminates with mem vuv = 100 through Moshe Rabbainu, as explained at the end of Yichud Ha'yeeru, is the complete yichud described there - the 3rd level].
Based on this principle I put together some conversations one might like to have with the different parts of his body in this little book:
Pray With Your Limbs & Other Devotions of a Nanach
https://www.createspace.com/6508295
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Chulent
HH
Rabbainu
made it very clear that even though the main honor of Shabbos is
eating, and on Shabbos all the eating is Divine, even still it is
forbidden to eat harmful foods even on Shabbos. Even still the
accepted holy custom of the Jews, especially with the holy custom
chulent, is to push the body to the limit, and for many this means
that after Shabbos they will be attending to their bodily needs for
many hours. This is a strong show of faith in the sanctity and
eminence of Shabbos, that even the body on Shabbos is more important
than the soul of after Shabbos, and it is proper to indulge the body
with even a fleeting delight, a few minutes of gorging, at the price
of a few hours of non-Shabbos time which would be put to Torah study,
prayer, and good deeds.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman
Sunday, August 7, 2016
Pray With Your Limbs
HH
With great thanks to the Almighty, I present to you a link to a great little work which I have just finished translating, and will soon be selling B"H on the Amazon for a very inflated price.
With great thanks to the Almighty, I present to you a link to a great little work which I have just finished translating, and will soon be selling B"H on the Amazon for a very inflated price.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Who are you, and who do you want to be?
HH
The Zohar reveals a huge secret, the Torah says that when Joseph saw that he couldn't get out of the seduction and grasp of the wife of Poateephar, he left his "beg'ged" - his clothing in her hands and ran away. The Zohar reveals that this "beg'ged" is in reality the most external layer of the body, which is a demon. Basically Joseph left her a plaything, a man toy, a dildo, and the rest of himself ran away. And if we follow the verses according to this revelation we see that the wife of Poateephar wasn't at all satisfied and in desire of this external superficial body, she had wanted Joseph himself.
The Zohar also reveals that Esther did not sleep with King Achashvairosh, only this very external outer layer of her body, which is a demon, Mordechai and Esther would swear, and command it by oath, to go sleep with Achashvairoash, and after it was done and returned to Esther, she would ritually immerse herself and be with Mordechai. The Ramchal in Kinaas Hashem Tzivoas explains that this demon is so external - it is just like eye makeup - that there was no interference from this activity to Esther's holiness and her relationship with Mordechai, however even still since this layer had done this, it needed ritual immersion.
Today, unfortunately, due to our sins and the great coarseness of the world, not to mention pornography and all the allurements of the entertainment industry, alcohol, drugs - all of these things play directly and exclusively to this "beg'ged" the outer most external layer of our bodies, which has almost no real connection to who we really are, and yet we empower it and give it our full attention and give it to rule and command our lives, may the Holy Merciful One G-d save us.
We must be strong to stand up to this temptation to lust after this superficial encasing, and live true lives.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman
The Zohar reveals a huge secret, the Torah says that when Joseph saw that he couldn't get out of the seduction and grasp of the wife of Poateephar, he left his "beg'ged" - his clothing in her hands and ran away. The Zohar reveals that this "beg'ged" is in reality the most external layer of the body, which is a demon. Basically Joseph left her a plaything, a man toy, a dildo, and the rest of himself ran away. And if we follow the verses according to this revelation we see that the wife of Poateephar wasn't at all satisfied and in desire of this external superficial body, she had wanted Joseph himself.
The Zohar also reveals that Esther did not sleep with King Achashvairosh, only this very external outer layer of her body, which is a demon, Mordechai and Esther would swear, and command it by oath, to go sleep with Achashvairoash, and after it was done and returned to Esther, she would ritually immerse herself and be with Mordechai. The Ramchal in Kinaas Hashem Tzivoas explains that this demon is so external - it is just like eye makeup - that there was no interference from this activity to Esther's holiness and her relationship with Mordechai, however even still since this layer had done this, it needed ritual immersion.
Today, unfortunately, due to our sins and the great coarseness of the world, not to mention pornography and all the allurements of the entertainment industry, alcohol, drugs - all of these things play directly and exclusively to this "beg'ged" the outer most external layer of our bodies, which has almost no real connection to who we really are, and yet we empower it and give it our full attention and give it to rule and command our lives, may the Holy Merciful One G-d save us.
We must be strong to stand up to this temptation to lust after this superficial encasing, and live true lives.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
It's not worth peeking
HH
What is so terrible
about having an improper thought? Yes, we know it is forbidden, and
it causes damage in the supernal world, and that really those worlds
are very much the actual reality, and that it will G-d forbid lead
from one thing to the next until it really brings one to no good, but
even still we say to ourselves, let me be for a bit, a few thoughts,
a little pleasure, what's the big deal?
So here's something
to consider. G-d is completely above the paradigm of existence, He
created existence, however in the existence He created, He also
exists, and this existence of His is infinite. Anyone familiar with
algebra knows that infinite can remain in a very small value – as a
number approaches another in different increments, increasingly
getting closer but never reaching. Such are the various classes that
G-d created, the worlds of doing, speaking, thinking (asseeya,
yetzeerah, breeya) and infinitely more, as the worlds approach G-d
Himself, never reaching, but infinitely getting closer, each one in
it's own class and restraint. In all of this, the prophet refers to
G-d as continuously hiding Himself (Ail misstattair). The direction
of the infinite existence of G-d in the whole layout of existence is
to the esoteric, the more spiritual and hidden. The Ramchal asserts
that the entire study of Kabbala – the study of G-d and how He runs
the world, can be summarized as inner and outer (peneemeeyoos and
cheetzoaneeyus). Always the inner, which is more spiritual, more
refined and hidden, is the soul of the outer body, and completely
encompasses it, rules it, and is it's very lifesource. Except for the
final world in which man exists, where the body has a certain
independence not recognizing its soul. The Torah (even the "revealed Torah") as well must be kept hidden and should not be taught in public places (Moed Kutun 16a).
All sexual
gratification (which the Vilna Goan clearly classifies as a sin
between a person and himself, any damage done to another person by
this sin is purely collateral) is the body's insurgency over the
soul. This is hijacking a person's manifest, from going in the way of
G-d, and ever increasingly give strength to the unseen, the soul of
yet a more esoteric plane, which by the way is the ultimate eminence
of the traits of humility and tznius (modesty), where one hides
himself preferring to reach further inwards than to show an outward,
superficial exploitation, and all of this is hijacked and reversed by
even a small improper thought and desire, which empowers the body,
giving it precedence, giving it the dominion to drag and subjugate
the direction of the soul to be reduced to an expression of the body
(and if a person G-d forbids generates seed wantonly, this is the
actual reduction of the ultimate spiritual manifest, to a coarse
superficial coarse goal, HY).
The idea I presented
above is actually found explicitly in the holy books, particularly in
Rabbainu's Likutay Moharan, regarding fasting. Rabbainu reveals that
on a day that a person eats, the food goes to his stomach and inners,
and from there energy is sent up to the brain, it is the liver that
is propelling the brain. When a person fasts, the direction is the
opposite, the brain rules over the body (MeLeCh – king, rule –
Moach – brain, Lev – heart, Cuvaid – liver, as opposed to the
reverse order of CuLaiM – meaning embarrasment/incarceration –
locked into the embarrassing control of the body).
The main thing is to
sing Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman, which is the ultimate direction!
NNNNM!
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Float Your Boat
HH
Rabbainu revealed in his Stories of Ancient Times (of the Seven Beggars, the Blind Beggar), that our bodies are like ships which our souls sail (This is in fact a well established allegory, also alluded to in the agadatta of Rabba Bar Bar Chana, of those who go down to the sea, in other words, human souls who board their ships and sail around in this world).
The secret of all the Kabala, the Ramchal revealed, is pinneemiyews (inner) and cheetzoaniyews (outer), these are the aspects (lined up in Likutay Moharan Torah 37) of body and soul, material and form/function, knowledge and ignorance, light and darkness.
Every inner layer is humble and modest in face of the outer layer that clothes it, it hardly shows itself at all. The inner element has great haughtiness the free reign it grants the outer layer which clothes it.
[ה' מלך (על הבריאה שכביכול מלביש אותו) גאות לבש לבש וכו'' ועוד כתיב ישראל אשר בך אתפאר, שישראל שהם מציאות שבו מתגלה יחוד ה', השם יתברך מגאה בהם]
In this world of 6000 years, our bodies have reign, and conduct the main functions of our existence, they host our souls who are like guests. Even in the seventh thousand year, the body will be the main player, but it will be with the full force of the soul. In the eighth thousand year, the soul will be the main player, and the body like a guest etc. as explained at length in the Ramchal's Da'as Tevunos (76-84, Klalim Rishonim 9). Soon it will be very very apparent how ridiculous all the attention to the body is. The body is of foremost importance as a wick for the flame that is our soul - and the soul of our soul, and the soul of the soul etc., and most be cared for properly, but any attention given to it as a means of its own, working out, and the competitions surrounding the feats of the body, are utterly rediculous and stupid. When HY will allow for the soul to shine forth with, not even in full force, just with much less restraint, the body will be seen as powerless and almost completely inconsequential. It will be impossible to comprehend how one could be so foolish to have pursued any bodily concerns and pleasures whatsoever. There will be great embarrassment.
HY is infinite - Ein Sof (without end - i.e. we don't even call him infinite, because any positive description we have is limited in its definition (as anyone familiar with algebra will know that infinite can be caught in very small fractions), so we describe HY as bereft of any limit, Ramchal), and the way of HY is to hide himself in infinite layers, each one more material than the next, and HY is infinitely hiding in the humility of more and more esoteric existences. This is the way of HY, this is His Glory.
Rabbainu revealed (Likutay Moharan Torah 6) that our role in the month of Ellul is to go in this way of HY. First we must appint the king, and gain complete conviction, we must be strong in our ideals and decisive in what is right and what is wrong. This is our first teshuva. One could easily get stuck here, as many sensationalist do, getting caught up in self-righteousness of all types of worthy causes and campaigns. Kings have great honor. But this honor is so external, it is so full of cracks and disallusion. It is just a shell, and in fact quite puny. So we must not get stuck there, but must look further, to realize that everything that we see, all the Jews and the actions, are all the glory of HY, we gain complete embarrassment from our own course, myopic, mundane understanding of existence -- how we percieved that we were players -- going after such an external approach ignoring the true reality, from this shame, we can drain out our own ego which pumps through our blood, distorting our vision and perception -- we cleanse ourselves of all the constrictions of the cravings and lusting of the seventy nations, and we can proceed to build a holy conception to house Divine Inspiration in ourselves. This Divine Spirit is utter humility which delights and takes pride in allowing it's surroundings to have full expression and atonomy. This is a taste of the future world.
[Notice in the Story of Ancient Times of a Prayer Leader, the Kings men who were finding each other and celebrating with tremendous joy, while those accompanying them had no idea what the joy was about, just like Rabbainu said that two people could be sitting next to each other; one delighting in Gan Eden, and the other completely confounded. It is not enough to get to the tzaddikim physically, as long as someone is attached to a fraudulent leader - i.e. a represntation of a some sort of society and course of life - like those who were accompanying the king's men, they will never figure it out, what it is, the reality. But even still since they stuck to them till the end, they got their tikkun].
When Rabbi Nussun once got an inkling of the enormity of the awsome level Rabbi Nachman was on, he almost went berserk, he shouted, "GEVALD! What is the world thinking?!" He wanted to run into the world and try to knock sense into them to get with the program. Rabbi Nachman had to physically hold him down, and told him to stay put, going out there screaming would not help. If we would have any conception of the real reality staring straight out at us, we would be on fire. We gotto get there, for ourselves and for humanity.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
Rabbainu revealed in his Stories of Ancient Times (of the Seven Beggars, the Blind Beggar), that our bodies are like ships which our souls sail (This is in fact a well established allegory, also alluded to in the agadatta of Rabba Bar Bar Chana, of those who go down to the sea, in other words, human souls who board their ships and sail around in this world).
The secret of all the Kabala, the Ramchal revealed, is pinneemiyews (inner) and cheetzoaniyews (outer), these are the aspects (lined up in Likutay Moharan Torah 37) of body and soul, material and form/function, knowledge and ignorance, light and darkness.
Every inner layer is humble and modest in face of the outer layer that clothes it, it hardly shows itself at all. The inner element has great haughtiness the free reign it grants the outer layer which clothes it.
[ה' מלך (על הבריאה שכביכול מלביש אותו) גאות לבש לבש וכו'' ועוד כתיב ישראל אשר בך אתפאר, שישראל שהם מציאות שבו מתגלה יחוד ה', השם יתברך מגאה בהם]
In this world of 6000 years, our bodies have reign, and conduct the main functions of our existence, they host our souls who are like guests. Even in the seventh thousand year, the body will be the main player, but it will be with the full force of the soul. In the eighth thousand year, the soul will be the main player, and the body like a guest etc. as explained at length in the Ramchal's Da'as Tevunos (76-84, Klalim Rishonim 9). Soon it will be very very apparent how ridiculous all the attention to the body is. The body is of foremost importance as a wick for the flame that is our soul - and the soul of our soul, and the soul of the soul etc., and most be cared for properly, but any attention given to it as a means of its own, working out, and the competitions surrounding the feats of the body, are utterly rediculous and stupid. When HY will allow for the soul to shine forth with, not even in full force, just with much less restraint, the body will be seen as powerless and almost completely inconsequential. It will be impossible to comprehend how one could be so foolish to have pursued any bodily concerns and pleasures whatsoever. There will be great embarrassment.
HY is infinite - Ein Sof (without end - i.e. we don't even call him infinite, because any positive description we have is limited in its definition (as anyone familiar with algebra will know that infinite can be caught in very small fractions), so we describe HY as bereft of any limit, Ramchal), and the way of HY is to hide himself in infinite layers, each one more material than the next, and HY is infinitely hiding in the humility of more and more esoteric existences. This is the way of HY, this is His Glory.
Rabbainu revealed (Likutay Moharan Torah 6) that our role in the month of Ellul is to go in this way of HY. First we must appint the king, and gain complete conviction, we must be strong in our ideals and decisive in what is right and what is wrong. This is our first teshuva. One could easily get stuck here, as many sensationalist do, getting caught up in self-righteousness of all types of worthy causes and campaigns. Kings have great honor. But this honor is so external, it is so full of cracks and disallusion. It is just a shell, and in fact quite puny. So we must not get stuck there, but must look further, to realize that everything that we see, all the Jews and the actions, are all the glory of HY, we gain complete embarrassment from our own course, myopic, mundane understanding of existence -- how we percieved that we were players -- going after such an external approach ignoring the true reality, from this shame, we can drain out our own ego which pumps through our blood, distorting our vision and perception -- we cleanse ourselves of all the constrictions of the cravings and lusting of the seventy nations, and we can proceed to build a holy conception to house Divine Inspiration in ourselves. This Divine Spirit is utter humility which delights and takes pride in allowing it's surroundings to have full expression and atonomy. This is a taste of the future world.
[Notice in the Story of Ancient Times of a Prayer Leader, the Kings men who were finding each other and celebrating with tremendous joy, while those accompanying them had no idea what the joy was about, just like Rabbainu said that two people could be sitting next to each other; one delighting in Gan Eden, and the other completely confounded. It is not enough to get to the tzaddikim physically, as long as someone is attached to a fraudulent leader - i.e. a represntation of a some sort of society and course of life - like those who were accompanying the king's men, they will never figure it out, what it is, the reality. But even still since they stuck to them till the end, they got their tikkun].
When Rabbi Nussun once got an inkling of the enormity of the awsome level Rabbi Nachman was on, he almost went berserk, he shouted, "GEVALD! What is the world thinking?!" He wanted to run into the world and try to knock sense into them to get with the program. Rabbi Nachman had to physically hold him down, and told him to stay put, going out there screaming would not help. If we would have any conception of the real reality staring straight out at us, we would be on fire. We gotto get there, for ourselves and for humanity.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Good news
HH
The eyes and heart lust after things that wither away, in the most 50 years those images will have lost all their allure, and after 120 years they will be 6 feet under eaten by worms.
The good news is that all those who struggled not to be drawn after these false attractions, eventually when they will be freed of their evil inclination, and even as they become older and lose the intensity of the lust, they will be rewarded quite naturally by the tremendous relief they will feel, the new freedom, that aside front he great reward they will get.
But those who play to the empty temptations of this world, which are in fact just holographic images fueled by passions of blood and gore, these people who wish to consider these things appealing and desirable, will forever be trapped in this emptiness GF, even after there bodies weaken and desires fade their hearts will continue to covet and ache for the empty meaningless shapes and designs that have no real meaning or worth. It won't end for them, they will be trapped GF.
"Disturbing" indeed!
Rabbainu even gave a parable about this, once a coachman was taking some people on a long journey in the freezing Ukraine, and he stopped somewhere and he said there used to be a cavern here where we used to stop and drink....
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman
The eyes and heart lust after things that wither away, in the most 50 years those images will have lost all their allure, and after 120 years they will be 6 feet under eaten by worms.
The good news is that all those who struggled not to be drawn after these false attractions, eventually when they will be freed of their evil inclination, and even as they become older and lose the intensity of the lust, they will be rewarded quite naturally by the tremendous relief they will feel, the new freedom, that aside front he great reward they will get.
But those who play to the empty temptations of this world, which are in fact just holographic images fueled by passions of blood and gore, these people who wish to consider these things appealing and desirable, will forever be trapped in this emptiness GF, even after there bodies weaken and desires fade their hearts will continue to covet and ache for the empty meaningless shapes and designs that have no real meaning or worth. It won't end for them, they will be trapped GF.
"Disturbing" indeed!
Rabbainu even gave a parable about this, once a coachman was taking some people on a long journey in the freezing Ukraine, and he stopped somewhere and he said there used to be a cavern here where we used to stop and drink....
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman
Sunday, July 12, 2015
The stupidity of the Olympics and similar competition
HH the absolute stupidity of sports, running around for nothing, and all the passion for nothing, doesn't need too much mention, anyone aiming for the truth will be abhorred by it. What sometimes can be misleading are the physical achievements that athletes can achieve or once in a while we hear can be pulled off through meditation. Here it is important not to fall for how pathetic this all is. If a person could empower himself with the smallest of angels he would literally be able to skip and fly around the world and lift the largest building, all the more so a person's soul which far greater. So here people are caught up with puny accomplishments of their body, while they are sitting on the awesome power of their soul. Like showing off picture of toy cars instead of drag racing in the most advanced model cars.
Yes, there might be something to keep the body a little fit, but anything more than little bit is and will be the source of eternal shame of the sheer stupidity. In days to come the body will altogether be secondary to the soul, and will be like a guest, just as now the soul seems secondary and like a guest in the body, there are a few stages to this, until eventually the body will just be completely swallowed by the soul, all the 5 main stages are delineated in Daas Tevunos of the Ramchal.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman
Yes, there might be something to keep the body a little fit, but anything more than little bit is and will be the source of eternal shame of the sheer stupidity. In days to come the body will altogether be secondary to the soul, and will be like a guest, just as now the soul seems secondary and like a guest in the body, there are a few stages to this, until eventually the body will just be completely swallowed by the soul, all the 5 main stages are delineated in Daas Tevunos of the Ramchal.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman
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