๐ SUNDAY PRAYER: NETZACH- GRACE ON SHALOSH SEUDOS, THE THIRD SHABBAT MEAL
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SHALOSH SEUDOS, THIRD SHABBAT MEAL!
GRACE ON THE SHALOSH SEUDOS, THE THIRD SHABBAT MEAL
THE FIRST BREATH OF LIFE
-by Rabbi Michael Laitman
Through contractions and expansions, all the changes in the spiritual levels take place, at every step. One constantly goes through such pulsations and the only question is only how he uses them, how he relates to them?
And here the sign that the creature is ready for the Light of life is that there is at least a power in him to make a contraction so that the Light of life comes to him and makes an exhalation. And the first movement of life is made. The Light that Reforms arrives, and this expansion back to the previous place gives him the first characteristic of bestowal.
Therefore he doesnโt stop moving and becomes alive.
And therefore the movement will not cease in him anymore; and it becomes a living movement.
This first movement is called the โsoulโ (Neshama); it is the breath of life that the Creator breathes into it; as is written, (Genesis 2:7) โand breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.โ
It is impossible to rise to the level of โlifeโ, to the level of bestowal, if we are not prepared to produce within us the distinctions between humans, that is, to be ready to endure the contractions and after that to reach the expansions. If the person is ready to endure this coldness, then he will advance. As it is said: (Hosea 14:10) โFor the ways of HaShem are right, and the just do walk in them; but transgressors do stumble therein.โ