Le bas et le haut, le grossier et le subtil, le mortel et l'immortel

Le bas et le haut, le grossier et le subtil, le mortel et l'immortel : il y a réellement deux mondes et ceux-ci sont séparés. Si tu veux t'approcher du monde divin, tu dois séparer ces mondes en toi, ne pas les mélanger : d'un côté ce qui est mortel, de l'autre, ce qui est immortel. Si tu n'as pas séparé en toi ce qui est immortel de ce qui est mortel, tu n'entreras pas dans l'immortalité.

O.Manitara

Anesthetized

God saw the fire and the ice, the storm and the narrow straits that plague our final journey, and He knew that no soul could bear such pain.

So He anesthetized our souls. Our love and fear, our sensitivity to anything Godly—all that was put to sleep. Only the very core, our essential connection to Above, was left intact.

There is a positive side to this frozen state: The deepest wonders are open to us. Wonders that souls of an earlier generation would never have been able to approach out of awe and inspiration.

At the core of the wisdom of Torah lies an unbearable fire. We can walk through it now, without even knowing its heat.

T. Freeman