QUESTION:
What should a person do if he has already tasted some ruchniyus, he feels a tremendous burning desire to grow higher in ruchniyus, as if he’s found the light, and he connected to his neshamah – but afterwards he finds that this experience is gone, because his guf (body) has taken over again? How do we get past our guf and subjugate it to our neshamah?
ANSWER:
The sefarim hakedoshim say, “Smash the body”. This is by (1) Developing pure, unquestioning emunah in Hashem. (2) Connecting to the depth of the Torah’s wisdom. (3) Crying out to Hashem for help, both externally and internally (“their hearts cried out to Hashem”). (4) Through hisbodedus (solitude and reflection), until a person reaches a place of inner silence in his soul. (5) And finally, it entails improving one’s middos.
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