🍇 SUNDAY PRAYER: YESOD- GRACE ON SHALOSH SEUDOS, THE THIRD SHABBAT MEAL
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GRACE ON THE SHALOSH SEUDOS, THE THIRD SHABBAT MEAL
THE FIRST SPIRITUAL DEGREE
-by Rabbi Baruch Ashlag, The Rabash
When we change our aim from “for me” to “for the Creator,” we begin to feel within (or around) us that which was previously hidden from us due to our nature of reception for ourselves alone. That new sensation is called the Upper World, or the Creator.
One feels the Creator according to how much of that aim is at one’s disposal. That amount is one’s first spiritual degree. In fact, anything lower than that degree does not exist. One can only rise from that basic step.
After the first degree, we get an additional desire aimed “for ourselves.” This makes us think we have fallen from the previous degree. However, that feeling comes because we have been given a new, corrupted will.
The “fall” is the sensation of the next degree in its corrupted state. Thus, each time a person corrects the corporeal aim from “for myself” to the spiritual aim of “for the Creator,” the fall is mended and one ascends to the next degree. (In fact, a person must crave this correction, but the Creator is the one who actually fixes it.)