FRIDAY PRAYER: HOCHMA-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.
Happiness
What is happiness in spirituality?
The revelation of Light is not in the original, basic desire of the created being. By yearning, we open on top of this desire. A person is not able to develop this yearning by himself, but only through the environment. Why? Because then this yearning is in the form of bestowal and not reception. I yearn for a goal but need to reach it with vessels which are connection with others, love of others. Then I reach the goal which is the attribute of bestowal, which is the meal, the pleasure. The happiness is derived from my discovering in myself the attribute of bestowal. This means that the Light is revealed to me as good, as bestowal. What does it mean that the Light is revealed to me as good, as bestowal? I bestow and so I discover the attributes in the Light according to the law of equivalence of form.
Thus, happiness is not something that I deserve, not something I attain by myself, but to the extent that I have a great yearning, that I attain thoughts of the goal from the environment, then in these vessels that I receive from the environment, with my efforts, with my ability to suffer and with the Arvut (mutual guarantee) that I receive from it, then I feel happiness.
–from the 1st and 2nd parts of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 08/12/11 (minutes 7-9; minutes 5-7), Daily Kabbalah Tip
PRAYER FOR UPPER STATE: SELF SCRUTINY – how does happiness according to kabbalah had applied to you so far?
L`chaim!
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YOUR ACTUAL STATE: GIVE STATEMENT ACCORDING TO OUR ACTUAL SPIRITUAL STATE OR UNDERSTANDING / JUSTIFICATION OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: WITH EACH OUR MINYAN, KINDLY GO THROUGH THIS TIVILAH טְבִילָה.
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ARVUT!