1. Down to Earth

A place to realize the delusion of separation, reward and punishment, good and evil, ahead, and behind, me and you, mine and yours, win and lose, hell and heaven. And to realize this:

with every painful, stumbling step we take to become wholly loving in thought, word and action, wholly non violent in thought and deed, we get up again more fit to continue on, more liberated from the 95% of subconscious thoughts, negative and demeaning, into greater mindfulness of who we really are, and why we are here.

Thus heaven on earth is also earth reaching heavenward, with each step in which we are re-learning our divine destiny: to be who we were created to be in the world, selfless beings of love and compassion, of hope and understanding

The author of the Book of Zohar, (Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai), merited to see heaven, the spiritual world of forces that is concealed from our senses. He described the struggle to attain each higher level and the qualities of love experienced there.

Only with G_d's help can we rise above our egoistic nature, step by step, like bar Yochai. We have to learn to receive the abundance from G_d not for our benefit, but to give back contentement to Him - partners in unconditional love.

The Zohar is now open to all over the past decade. Our sages of 2000 years ago, advised when this happens - the time for our real effort to merit redemption has arrived.

The world is now global and it's entire infrastructure is interconnected - G_d is forcing us to act in mutual responsibilty towards each other. The world is our school to learn mutual reciprocity as the quality in the world beyond our egoistic senses.

My wish is that more people would wake up to the sovereignty of the Lord. Too many have shaken their fists in anger at Gd. Too many have judged Gd, and deemed that reality is controlled by an evil one or that because of holocaust they believe god to be weak in power. They go to their graves in hideous drama. It is sad that many worship a Gd that is constantly fails them, bringing pain. The Torah couldn't make it any clearer that our condition is reflective of our relationship with Gd or lack thereof. It is sad to read the writings of people that have severed the strings that bind us with each other and our maker.

Yes, that is the eternal journey toward Oneness in which we were created from that still point and then to relearn what we know in a dualistic world, without which the tikkun could not take place.

In other words, our spirituality is one with the Divine Presence.

This is the true meaning of the Star of David. The triangle pointing down joins the triangle pointing up and the two fuse.

The involution of the Spirit (triangle of Sprit ruach elokim pointing down to dwell in the form. and the evolution of the form, to join with Spirit, thus realizing G-d within us. SELF realization. G-d in Man and Man in G-d.

What a journey.

Women need ot participat in Tikkun Olam, not jsut men

Shalom Rabbi Freeman,
I was reading this daily dose to my mom and she loved it and I subscribed her to read the daily dose every day.
So enlightening

"But Man, step by step, banished the Divine Presence from its home, with a tree of knowledge, with a man who murdered his brother, with all those things that human beings do..."

This is an amazing dimension to view from a different perspective. I also have conviction that our generation will bring Heaven back down to Earth. Amen. Thanks!

Regards.

Is Abraham greater than God; or did not God call Abraham? Man drove heaven away; a gracious God brings heaven down.