SUNDAY PRAYER: HOCHMA- GRACE ON SHALOSH SEUDOS, THE THIRD SHABBAT MEAL
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GRACE ON THE SHALOSH SEUDOS, THE THIRD SHABBAT MEAL
THE FIRST BREATH OF LIFE
-by Rav Michael Laitman
From an article by Baal HaSulam, “The Secret of Conception and Birth,” part 7, “Movement as a Sign of Life”: From the aspect of spiritual life, we divide the creatures into two groups: still, vegetative, animate – and speaking. The still, vegetative and animate are completely dead. The speaking is the aspect of life.
Life is the power to move. And it is known that the beginning of life is made by two actions that are opposite in purpose.
On the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate activities like these don’t take place and also among people who are found on the developmental levels of the still, vegetative, and animate, but only in someone who has already reached the level of the Adam within a person.
For also the speaking, when born he is really dead until they awaken him through urgency.
This is what we feel on our way. Certainly this is not talking about the birth of the physical body, but about spiritual properties. Even when Adam is born, which is to say when a characteristic of “resembling” (Domeh) the Creator begins to be developed in one of us, in the beginning this is in the aspect of being “dead”; he is not ready to carry out his own actions. And he remains so until they awaken him through urgency and pressure.