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Gal Einai — gal einei — Bereishis 5784

Выпуск: Gal Einai — gal einei — Bereishis 5784. Темы: health_mind. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. Through prayer, the smallest of people can achieve a state of absolute cleaving to God, the same as the greatest of people who, in their prayers, must also strive to identify God in the same way that a young child would—without any concrete definitions or mental pictures. We might think that there is a type of tension created here: between prayer as an expression of our hopes that our minute, private, physical lacks, be solved and between prayer for the Shechinah which requires an expanded consciousness and divestment from the material. Armed with this recognition, the individual should elevate himself from his personal, physical stress and dedicate his prayer to healing and alleviating the general-spiritual source of the problem as it is found in the Shechinah. From its very inception, however, Chasidut emphasized that prayer is like a ladder with its feet on the ground, steeped in the changing conditions of life, while its head reaches into the heavens. By recognizing that the root of all lack and hardship is to be found in the illness plaguing the holy Shechinah, which enclothes itself in our mundane reality, replete with all its difficulties. When we turn to God for everything, large or small with a feeling of complete dependence on Him and with consummate trust in His good will toward us, it builds our intimate connection with Him. In other words, instead of praying for himself, or even for a friend who needs heavenly help, a person should pray for the holy Shechinah, for the redemption of God’s Presence in the mundane. It is the strongest pronouncement of God’s Presence in our lives, of His all-powerfulness, of the fact that He is the only address for all our requests; it also expresses our love for Him. Ultimately, he explained his decision to go to the Maggid of Mezritch, with the following statement: “In Vilna, they learn how to study Torah, while in Mezritch they learn how to pray. Torah is the revelation of God’s eternal wisdom, while prayer is occupied with the “passing issues of life” (‫ )חיי שעה‬and focuses on requests for our changing needs.

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Gal Einai

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13 октября 2023 г.

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Темы: health_mind