The Laws of the Four Guardians and their Psychological Application
Are You a User? An Enjoyer? A Worker? Or a Soldier?
Dedicated by David and Eda Schottenstein
in the loving memory of
Alta Shula Swerdlov
Rabbi Gavriel Noach and Rivki Holtzberg
and all of the Mumbai Kedoshim
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Rabbi,
I understand your message. But if the model to which we are to strive is shomer chinam, how can we justify praying for things that we want? Is the only appropriate prayer to ask for the privilege of being HaShem's vehicle?
Thank you,
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Beyond all distinctions there is the synthesis that takes place within where all things are harmonized and unified. Hashem comes through transparency. That transparency comes about as a result of letting go of the attachments or the klippoth.
This letting go has a two fold nature. One is allow the transparency of thought to function as it was intended to and the other is that the klippoth being deprived of the sustenance of attachment thereby become transparent themselves completing the tikkune of redemption.
How is this accomplished? When we immerse ourselves in Torah we open various pathways within called interpretations within that connect each river of transparency within.
What then becomes of paramount importance is our awareness of what is happening while it is happening because in this way we are able to proactively open those doors when even the faintest glimmer of transparency comes through as a result of the mikvah of awareness without attachment.
Think about two opposing thoughts and their synthesis. Sometimes one thought is diametrically opposed to the other thought. As with good and evil. However when good stays in its element the attraction of opposites is diminished evil is thereby transcended in exactly the same way the klippoth mentioned above are dissipated.
When this kind of transparency makes itself known within you even in your unconscious moments will you be able to know the truth, the right from the wrong inside of your own thoughts unifying thoughts on the fly one after another.
The immediate result of the experience of this transparency described is that your life benefits from the benefit of that awareness. Every circumstance not only contains enormous mazel but you recognize that this source of beneficence is directly as a result of hashgacha pratis (divine providence)
You look around then and say oh this is the way things are supposed to be. You come to expect this and all because your trust in Hashem has become so complete that it is not even any longer a cause and effect relationship. What happens is that everything you do then is exactly what Hashem would have you do.
Events flash forward giving you time prepare so that the decision making progress is absent in that you already know that it is right to proceed without any questions.
Every prayer, morning, afternoon and evening is then yet another opportunity to groove these transparencies as you would place an oar in the water to move you forward so too you would place your thoughts in the right way to move your life forward.
Therefore even with a supreme level of free will you recognize that you are most free listening for and to Hashem in all of your actions. Nothing else matters. Chaos resolves itself around. Life presents problems Hashem provides solutions.
In this sense just as in this weeks Mishpatim the many mitzvoth seem to limit our actions when in truth they define our relationship to life to Hashem to everything that reflects the being that is now in perfect harmony with all that is.
Then moment by moment you stand aside in wonder singing praises
Psalm 21:4 For Thou meetest him with choicest blessings; Thou settest a crown of fine gold on his head.
Who was I?
In a way, I was all of these through different stages in my life. Thank you. B"H in ascending order.
Beautiful!
As usual things come together beautifully. Yet another wonderful enlightment.
Interestingly, there were 613 viewers...
Yishat Koach!
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Esser! Surely needing Parnassa isn't Klippah
Shalom- 1'st time for me and it was last minute I found on my computer, 15 minutes prior. SO glad I rushed. Enjoyed it like old days learning Gemmara & Talmud- such succinct reasoning.
QUESTION: Aren't all natural aspects within each of us with which we need to overcome the 'Will to Receive in order to Give Back,' as in the 'Right Side' according to K.(זוהר)? Next- We cannot support families with Parnassa doing pure Mitzvot Chinam, much as we enjoy that. Needing to make $$$ to provide for family, Shabbat, our children's education, ...well, that can not ALL be Klippah. Could you please elucidate, or did I miss something?
ארבע סוגי יהודים
נראה לי שפה מצויינים ד' סוגים של יהודים: החפשיים לגמרי שאינם חושבים שחייבים משהו לה' וכל הנאה שלהם. השוכרים הם המודרניים שזורקים עצם להשו"ע כדי לצאת י"ח אבל בעצם מאמינים שתכלית החיים היא הנאתם עצמם. אלא שעושים שחרית או הולכים לשיעור ואח"כ פטורים לחיות חייהם החפששים ללא קב"ע. ש"ש, והם החרדים לדבר ה', שמשועבדים לשו"ע במשך כל היום, כי הם שומרים ולא שוכרים, ומבינים שבכל רגע משועבדים הם להבעה"ב, אלא שהתכלית היא רק שכר, בעוה"ז או בעיקר בעוה"ב. ולאח"ז ישנו החסיד, החדור בתורת הבעש"ט, שבבחינת שומר חנם, שלא ע"מ לקבל פרס (ובלקו"ת תזריע, דפרס מלשון פרוסה, כי רוצה עצמותו ומהותו ית', ושם הוא ביטול לגמרי.) והם רוצים עצם הקשר ולא חושבים על מהותם.
והנה פשוט שבכ"א יש כל הד' דרגות בזמנים ואופנים שונים.
וגם בחסידים גופא ובהתקשרותם אל המאור ראינו ד' מדריגות:
אלה שהם שואלים וחושבים רק על עצמם. אלה שהם שוכרים, בעצם הכל בשבילם אבל "משליכים עצם" לפעמים, יעשו טובה ויתעסקו קצת בהרבצת התורה כדי לצאת ידי מצפונם. שלוחים שהם שומרי שכר ומוסרים עצמם לעבודה אבל רוצים שכר וריוח ולפעמים קצת קרדיט וכבוד. ויש היחידי סגולה ש"ח שכל מעיינם רק התקשרות להאמת. עושה האמת מפני שהוא אמת.
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We are looking into it. Sorry for the problem. If it stoppes, you should refresh page and start again, and you can fwd it to the place it stopped.
Would U kindly answer some questions here
Shabbat Shalom U'Mevorach...
שבת שלום ומבורך
- When you asked us to ask questions, I was assuming you would answer the simple ones asked in earnest.
Could you with your great Chessed do that for us?
"Goot Shabbos!"
To Tova
In response to your questions: "Aren't all natural aspects within each of us with which we need to overcome the 'Will to Receive in order to Give Back,' as in the 'Right Side' according to Kabbakah (זוהר)? Next: We cannot support families with Parnassa doing pure Mitzvot Chinam, much as we enjoy that. Needing to make $$$ to provide for family, Shabbat, our children's education, ...well, that can not ALL be Klippah. Could you please elucidate, or did I miss something?"
1. For sure, this is the great work of each of us, to transcend our natrual "shoel" mode and reveal the deeper parts of the self which are giving ant not ego-centered.
2. Of course we need money to live and to serve G-d. To engage in work and to support ourselves and loved ones is a mitzvah (in Parshas Mishpatim). So working to make a living is part of the work and service of the "unpaid guardian." The question is not what he is doing, but with what intent, and what is the motivating factor, and what is at the center of this person's life. For the "unpaid guardian," it is not about him; it is about his service to Hashem.
I should add that in most of us there are moments in which we experience each of the four. We are not one or the other; we are a combination of all four, at different times, in different places and under different circumstances.
I heard you've said
... that there is no bad or good among them: all four types of guardians are indispensible components of big colorful picture of our existence. Right?
to Passerby
Yes, that is correct I beleive.