QUESTION:
I used to have a certain seder (learning session) with a certain chavrusa and I got tremendous sipuk, chiyus and taanug (satisfaction, vitality, and pleasure) from it. For several reasons, that seder couldn’t continue anymore, and I feel in a way like I’m in mourning for several years already that I lost this seder that was so enjoyable to me. How can I return to the very same chiyus and simchah and taanug that I felt then?
ANSWER:
For every ability in the nefesh (soul) that you make use of, you must learn how to detach from it also. The abilities of the nefesh that we make us of should be like clothing that we can wear and also remove. Don’t be dependent on any certain factor (garment/levush) to receive chiyus from. Instead, look at it like a garment that you wear in the morning which you take off, replacing it with another garment at night. Your inner source of chiyus never changes, because it depends on your soul root which is unchanging. It is only the levush (garment) by which you get chiyus from which can change.
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