• Anonymous -1 year ago

  Hashem desires constant nonstop lifelong teshuva

  Teshuva as a way of life.  Never resting or satisfied.  

  Why? 

  Suppose Hashem had created people who are perfect, or even who could reach perfection and rest there. That would be akin to robots or angels with no free will or yetzer Hora.

  Rather, Hashem desired people to constantly fall and rise and fall again and rise again. This system best exemplifies true free will and battling--and defeating-the yetzer He planted within us.

  This constant fall and rise, constant state of teshuva is what distinguishes man from angels and robots. This is the purpose of Creation.  

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  Kj -1 year ago

  When you reach that place with Gd, it is as if nothing of evil ever happened!

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• Anonymous -1 year ago

  Rotzon/will is higher than intellect/reason

  And if you explain WHY you want something, then that's not what you want, or even the real reason.  The real reason is pyre unadulterated desire. Simple desire with no reason or explanation. Kids embody this in purity and simplicity.  Adults dress up desire with logic, intellect and reason precisely BECAUSE they can't simply say: "i want it because I want it" witn no reasons. 

  And so Dr Lamm says that he has finally reached the center, the real driving force of a patient when they say "just because I want it" with no reasons, explanations, or logic. 

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  Kj -1 year ago

  This is why what looks like sin to a person of flesh is not sin to the person of Eden touching Gd through the same act!

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  Kj -1 year ago

  Only when the Eden of self-conception is broken, will we seek the Eden of Gd!

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    Kj -1 year ago

    This is why lower level people must be careful what the demand of others!

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  Kj -1 year ago

  If you understand, it ceases to be of Gd!

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  Kj -1 year ago

  When did Gd ever use a person who understood, only those who hear and obey!

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• Anonymous -1 year ago

  How to really honor and respect your parents as we should

  By doing what they say and desire.

  "Imitatio Deus" = reflection of Hashem

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• Anonymous -1 year ago

  Good and evil ate mixed

  Ever since the "chait aitz hadaas", the first sin

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  Kj -1 year ago

  The purpose of Gd is to recreate Eden in the heart of a person!

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  Kj -1 year ago

  Gd only gives you what He can use through you.

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  • Anonymous -1 year ago

    Sounds manipulative 

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  Kj -1 year ago

  Gd deals with the person where they are -- deep surgery is often required to remove cancer!

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  Sara -1 year ago

  Paradox after paradox after paradox

  Good has evil in it and evil has good in it. We never know where our inspiration comes from..unexpected places. Ahaa!

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