🍇 SATURDAY PRAYER: NETZACH- GRACE FOR THE FIRST SHABBAT MEAL
READING: SUNSET FRIDAY
MEAL IN THE TEMPLE
-by Rabbi Michael Laitman
“Food” means that you receive pleasure from bestowing. And you have to receive these pleasures also for the sake of bestowal.
This is talking about an attitude, a sensation, actions in desires. The “dogs” inside of me are sitting beneath the “table” inside of me where I feel the “tastes of the king.”
What are the “tastes of the king”? What is “the king’s table”? These are all the pleasures that become revealed from bestowal, which the king desires to bestow. He enjoys by giving. And he wishes for you to also enjoy giving to others.
Then, if you bestow and enjoy it, the whole question is: What is giving you pleasure? Are you enjoying the fact that you are similar to the king? Are you enjoying this because He receives pleasure from your equivalence to Him? Or are you enjoying it because you have gotten your hands on some pleasure? If so, then you immediately transform from a person who sits at the table across from a king into a dog who chews bones under the table.
From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/11, The Zohar