Question:
1) Would it be accurate to say that our machshavas (thoughts) and feelings come hand in hand with the life force from Hashem, perhaps as the “catcher” of the life force He sends that is then intended to show us what we are to rectify? That is, the goal is to extract the life force from the initial experience of thought and feeling that is concealing how Hashem is doing everything and tempting us to go by our survival instincts with our own counsel?
Answer:
Yes! In an average person, the “initial thought” is like the shell that comes before the fruit, the kelipah kodemes l’pri, and this initial thought enters the person to show the person how he needs to sort out the evil in his thoughts. Whereas if a person has undergone much self-purification, his initial thought is a semblance of ruach hakodesh, which comes from the deeper intellect in the neshamah that can be beamed into one’s normal intellect, showing him how needs to think and act.
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2) Would it be too simplistic to say that once we come to see how our particular set of thoughts and feelings are the kelipah, and we have strengthened our emunah that Hashem is doing everything, we are intended then to reflect the life force directly into Torah, chesed, mitzvahs and prayer so that the vitality we would otherwise invest in acting upon what we think, feel and do attaches instead to Torah avoda chesed and mitzvahs and we follow that good inclination?
Answer:
Yes.
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3) When we do the above with regards to overcoming lusts, urges, pleasures and other natural inclinations, thereby quieting the body from going with the natural will in favor of Torah, avoda, chesed and mitzvahs, is that called holiness (kedushah)?
Answer:
Evil serves good, and that is how evil reaches its own tikkun (repair), and this is the spark of holiness that lays inside every evil.
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4) How do we answer those who say we are “hurting ourselves” by not “standing up” for our feelings?
Answer:
Because we should “stand up to our feelings” only if those feelings are pure and proper [not if our feelings aren’t aligned with Hashem’s will].
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5) Has our generation acclimated to the kelipas (to the evil forces) and developed tactics for dealing with each other just within the kelipas without consideration for breaking out (hence all the fighting and assertiveness)?
Answer:
That is true on a partial level.
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6) And if so, is the breakdown of all the worldly systems supposed to wake us up to this?
Answer:
Yes.
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7) How can we bring ourselves to see that our power, intellect and systems are not us and that it is time to “break out” of the kelipas if we have never even heard of an inner world or any of the tools of hisbodedus, nullification, and emunah due to curricula in the school systems? How can people find a way to learn what they never heard of if they don’t want to deviate from what they have been taught?
Answer:
What is needed is 1) To train our thoughts to think deeper, as well as (2) To awaken our feelings to search for more truth.
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