🐚 FRIDAY PRAYER: HOD-TEVILAH (טְבִילָה): PURIFYING (WASHING OF THE BODY) RITUAL

READING: BETWEEN AFTERNOON AND SUNSET – THURSDAY

TEVILAH (טְבִילָה): PURIFYING (WASHING OF THE BODY) RITUAL AFTER THE MAIN READINGS OF `PRAYER OF MANY´ THIS WEEK.

Necessity Vs. Desire

It is easy for me to cancel the corporeal desires of the body for luxuries, new products and the like. But how can I be in thought for the desire for connection, to the goal, when most of the time I think about necessities?

The answer is not to give importance to working hours and involvement with necessities beyond what we must. One should see this as something we must do that is beyond our power, from without choice, and not more than this. If a person needs to work ten hours a day because it is needed, then don’t think or deal with it beyond those hours. For the rest of the time, one should focus on the goal and the desire.

     – from the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 07/29/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam (minutes 9-13)

PRAYER FOR UPPER STATE: Reflect on the short article above, reflect on it, and try to obey and practice the essence of it.