SUNDAY PRAYER: BINAH- GRACE ON SHALOSH SEUDOS, THE THIRD SHABBAT MEAL
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GRACE ON THE SHALOSH SEUDOS, THE THIRD SHABBAT MEAL
WHAT IS THE FIRST STEP IN TERMS OF ENLIGHTENMENT
-by Rav Michael Laitman
Kabbalists name spiritual degrees after having attained them. If we only partially attain a degree, it is considered that we are its “son,” which is why we are called “Bnei Adam” (“the sons of Adam,” which in Hebrew is the term for “human beings”), since we are all parts of the degree called “Adam,” and our goal is to fully attain that degree—the root of our soul.
When we rise to a spiritual degree, we feel what transpires in it, attain its qualities, and perceive and sense the Creator according to that degree. With further spiritual ascent, what we perceived in the previous degrees will also change.
It is important to understand that only our perception and sensation changes in this entire process. It is not that each of the 125 spiritual degrees are each playing a different film. However, there is a simple upper light that fills reality, and by attaining certain spiritual qualities, we feel part of that light, which we call a “world.” We can also feel a tiny part of that light in our inborn egoistic qualities, and we call it “this world” or “our world.”