Spiritual Sunglasses

doesn't the soul/spirit also wait inside the body for its' release?

what does the simple body/mind connection discover by frustration, default or "gestalt" beyond the physical release? & then what?

if one takes as a 'given' that the mission of the soul is to see G-dliness ... ?

I think that the addition of the sunglasses as a prop has specific cultural meaning. I behooves everyone to ask themselves, why would one want to feel that one should hide the soul's trueness, the body (& the mind's) feelings .... behind any prop.

Is it Divine judgement, or judgement of our peers that we fear when we put on the sunglasses?

I went to The " Shades for the Soul " video. It supplements the meditation in concrete visual terms, perfectly.

So often the body is put in the context of a temporary thing-a-ma-jig inferior to the soul. Your message drives home that the body is an essential container which functions best when healthy a la Rabbi Infinity the roadrunner. Cracked sunglasses/body are not very useful, like the hole in the spacesuit. The Kabbalistic approach of a soul waiting sometimes for centuries for entrance to a body makes sense.

The Joe Cool look of this meditation is fun and effective. Rabbi Infinity does remain my favourite Kabbalist. He is always an upper.

Keep up the great work. It's working !

Yasher koach.

Oh, thank you rabbi, you told us a very brilliant and wise thought about our soul and our body.

Thank you Rabbi for reaching out. I loved your series on meditation.

Had to watch it 3 times to get the message. The mission of the soul is to see G-dliness,

1. i thought that the Jewish soul is connected to G-d.

2. Shouldn't the body ( mind ) have a bigger role than merely as a filter. Seems like the mind offers another grip by which to see G-dlines.

Maybe someone can explain.

John Paul II made history by "rehabilitating" the value of the human body, and by redefining chastity. Perhaps, it is better said, that he put the body and soul in their proper place. To the structure of the person, he said, belongs an "interior", in which we find the elements of spiritual life. This determines the value of the person. Such affirmation can only be produced by the spirit. It is not a matter of summarily "annihilating" the value "body and sex" in the conscious mind by pushing reactions to them into the subconscious, but of sustaining long term integration. In short, the value "body and sex" must be grounded and implanted in the value of the person. Chastity does not lead to desdain of the body, but it involves a certain humility of the body. The human body must be "humble" in face of the greatness represented by the person: for in the person resides the true and definitive greatness of man. Chastity is just that. It is difficult, yet it is the sure way to happiness.