Daat Tevunot Class Notes
Jun 3rd, 2009 by Rabbi Simcha Weinberg in Spiritual Growth
We began with the Intellect’s statement on the bottom of pages 18 -19 in The Knowing Heart:
1) A person achieves Dveikut – Attachment as he or she achieves greater self-mastery.
2) Dveikut – Attachment is to God’s Kedusha – Sanctity.
3) Dveikut allows one to enjoy his or her perceptions of God’s Glory.
4) That enjoyment will not be limited by any of the three major barriers: 1. Hindrance – Someone or something holding you back from moving forward, 2. Barrier, and 3. Impediment.
5) The Ramchal quotes three verses to explain and define each of the three limitations to enjoyment.
6) Whenever the Ramchal quotes more than one proof-text, he intends to prove more than one point.
7) The three limitations are discussed in prayer: Amidah: Avot: “Melech ozer, u’Moshia, U’magain – The King Who Helps, saves and shields.
Hindrance refers to ego interfering with attachment: Jacob holding on to Esau’s heel (where the Serpent of Eden attacks) is holding Esau back from asserting power – a positive hindrance. Serving God without integrity – with self-serving motivation – is ego. The attacks of others in word and deed create barriers. Our inability to accept that God uses His abundant blessings to guide us toward the fulfillment of our purpose in life is the impediment.
9) This too is in the Amidah: Gevurot: Mechakail Chaim – God sustains us in order to help us achieve Techiat Hameitim – World to Come – which is our ultimate purpose.
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Learn & discover the Divine prophecies with Rabbi Simcha Weinberg from the holy Torah, Jewish Law, Mysticism, Kabbalah and Jewish Prophecies. The Foundation Stone is the ultimate resource for Jews, Judaism, Jewish Education, Jewish Spirituality & the holy Torah.
1) A person achieves Dveikut – Attachment as he or she achieves greater self-mastery.
2) Dveikut – Attachment is to God’s Kedusha – Sanctity.
3) Dveikut allows one to enjoy his or her perceptions of God’s Glory.
4) That enjoyment will not be limited by any of the three major barriers: 1. Hindrance – Someone or something holding you back from moving forward, 2. Barrier, and 3. Impediment.
5) The Ramchal quotes three verses to explain and define each of the three limitations to enjoyment.
6) Whenever the Ramchal quotes more than one proof-text, he intends to prove more than one point.
7) The three limitations are discussed in prayer: Amidah: Avot: “Melech ozer, u’Moshia, U’magain – The King Who Helps, saves and shields.
Hindrance refers to ego interfering with attachment: Jacob holding on to Esau’s heel (where the Serpent of Eden attacks) is holding Esau back from asserting power – a positive hindrance. Serving God without integrity – with self-serving motivation – is ego. The attacks of others in word and deed create barriers. Our inability to accept that God uses His abundant blessings to guide us toward the fulfillment of our purpose in life is the impediment.9) This too is in the Amidah: Gevurot: Mechakail Chaim – God sustains us in order to help us achieve Techiat Hameitim – World to Come – which is our ultimate purpose.
Author Info:
Learn & discover the Divine prophecies with Rabbi Simcha Weinberg from the holy Torah, Jewish Law, Mysticism, Kabbalah and Jewish Prophecies. The Foundation Stone is the ultimate resource for Jews, Judaism, Jewish Education, Jewish Spirituality & the holy Torah.
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Someone asked if one needs to fully master the first area (hindrance of the ego) before moving on to the next, and so on. A proof that it’s not the case, is that it seems that the shift from one level to the next is done almost naturally. Meaning, if one achieve’s some degree of mastery over one’s ego, and the ego becomes less of a hindrance, the way we perceive the attaks of others will automatically change. (a lot of the pain or “barriers” result from the clashing of the egos). Once we don’t see others as threats, but merely as “puppets”, as instruments programmed to help us achieve our purpose, we swiftly move on to perfecting the third area, we heighten our awareness of “ata tomich gorali”, we start getting rid of the impediment that makes us fail to see how God is guiding us towards our ultimate purpose. And so, it works in layers; we perfect one level of the first area, and that brings us to perfecting a level of the second and third. Then, we start again with trying to remove a deeper layer that hinders our growth etc…