QUESTION:
1) What’s the difference between emunah peshutah, p’shitus, and Ain Od Milvado k’pshuto?
ANSWER:
There is emunah in Hashem that a person was taught as a child, and this is emunah peshutah, in which one doesn’t engage in philosophy questions about Hashem and he simply believes it because this is what he was taught. This emunah is generally the mind’s awareness, on the level of thought, and it is emunah by way of ohr makif. There is also emunah that penetrates into the heart, and upon touching the heart, the depths of the heart are revealed, and this is [another way of] emunah peshutah. There is also p’shitus, which extends and permeates one’s entire being. It is rooted in the ohr EinSof pashut, the undifferentiated infinite light of Hashem, and in emunah peshutah. There is also Ain Od Milvado k’pshuto, and that is the illumination of the ohr EinSof pashut in the experience of the soul.
QUESTION
2) Are all of these things essentially to live with bittul to Hashem?
ANSWER
Every pshitus contains bittul, and the level of bittul depends on what level [of pshitus] it is.
QUESTION
3) Was there a change in the way that we need to serve Hashem in the last couple of years? Can we say that until now , our avodah was emunah chushis, to sense and feel Hashem, and now our avodah has become emunah peshutah and temimus – not necessarily to feel Hashem more viscerally, but to remain loyal to Hashem amidst the darkness of the final days?
ANSWER
Emunah peshutah and temimus must certainly be chushis, viscerally felt. In every generation the avodah was to have emunah chushis in Hashem. As we get closer to the end and the light of Mashiach shines stronger, there is more pshitus and temimus that can be revealed, and it must become chushis, a pshitus and temimus that is a palpable sense of Hashem.
QUESTION
4) If people don’t understand Kabalistic terms like Radl”a, kav ohr EinSof, Arich and Atik, etc. should we explain to them our avodah in the end of days in non-Kaballistic and simple terms, such as emunah peshutah, temimus, talking with Hashem, etc.?
ANSWER
Yes
QUESTION
2) Are all of these things essentially to live with bittul to Hashem?
ANSWER
Every pshitus contains bittul, and the level of bittul depends on what level [of pshitus] it is.
QUESTION
3) Was there a change in the way that we need to serve Hashem in the last couple of years? Can we say that until now , our avodah was emunah chushis, to sense and feel Hashem, and now our avodah has become emunah peshutah and temimus – not necessarily to feel Hashem more viscerally, but to remain loyal to Hashem amidst the darkness of the final days?
ANSWER
Emunah peshutah and temimus must certainly be chushis, viscerally felt. In every generation the avodah was to have emunah chushis in Hashem. As we get closer to the end and the light of Mashiach shines stronger, there is more pshitus and temimus that can be revealed, and it must become chushis, a pshitus and temimus that is a palpable sense of Hashem.
QUESTION
4) If people don’t understand Kabalistic terms like Radl”a, kav ohr EinSof, Arich and Atik, etc. should we explain to them our avodah in the end of days in non-Kaballistic and simple terms, such as emunah peshutah, temimus, talking with Hashem, etc.?
ANSWER
Yes
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