Category: Divine Inspiration

We now need to understand the difference between the excitement of the Divine soul within the comprehension that the natural soul comprehends and the excitement of the natural soul itself etc. It was explained...

Now, we must first preface with an astonishing observable phenomenon. When two people hear a specific matter on the topic of G_dliness, there are different types of excitement that take place in the Divine...

Now, from the example of the distance between the “excitement in the explanation” as compared to the “excitement in the G_dliness of the explanation,” mentioned above, we may now understand the even greater distance...

However, we still need to understand what, in essence, is this Divine excitement in the comprehension of the Divine soul which is qualitatively different than the excitement in the comprehension of the natural soul,...

Now, it was explained above concerning the natural soul that apart from the level in which there is no G_dly aspect at all, in that one’s only desire is excitement devoid of any revealed...

Now, certainly, the aspect of being occupied in deed by desisting from evil and doing good due to the influence of the Divine soul, begins with thought. Thisis the desire for G_dliness within one’s...

So far, inregard to the levels of the Divine soul, we have spoken about the level of deed. This is the essential quality of the Divine soul todesist from evil and do good. The...

The second, higher level is a more inner aspect, higher than the above mentioned aspect of Nefesh, which is merely the practice of doing good deeds through the precepts. This is the aspect of...

This may be understood with another similar example, that is, with the matter of the actual reawakening and ingathering of the sparks of holiness that fell into the levels of impurity through the “Shattering...

The third, higher level of the Divine soul is the essential excitement of the Neshamah level, as in the verse, “Let the whole Neshamah praise G_d etc.”[1] And the verse, “If He were to...