Four Realms

The butterfly-like creatures remind me of angels taking messages to-and-fro.

Phenomenal illustration.

Again Rabbi, thank you. Reply

Love you thoughts for a day which help and strengthen my innermost being. This is my time as I just sign up and enjoyed Escape Reply

animals move to transcend self Does G-D know us by motion? I thought i learned that Hashem does not comprehend motion on earth.

So by motion the animal is not necessarily known by Hashem.

A rock does not transcend itself and is still and Hashem knows the rock.

Is transcending self having to do with a relationship with G-D or between other animals?

How do animals move and why do they move? One reason is to get needs met like to find food. The other reason is to mate. How does an animal transcend itself to know Hashem? and find it food and mate?

Why is this important to understand? The reason is because Jews are animals and souls who have speech? Does Hashem know us in motion or by our motions or chatting or are we just communicating with each other without HIS understanding of us? We humans abuse motion between each other except maybe with sign language for the deaf. Flirtation or aggression are often expressed non verbally with body motion. Sometimes the motion one person uses goes undetected by another human. Reply

Man is capable of hearing his ownself through the ears of another, and so Psalm 139?

Yet, ... "For there is not a word on my tongue,
But look! You already know it all --

Obviously an invitation to some beautiful moments of expression of Divine Love there, but also some temptations, of being overly verbose, maybe ...

But i don't believe 'that speech is strictly for the outside world" ... ily; why would G-d give each person a unique voice? unique talents? ...

Even 'simple speech' is recognized as a democratic right ... and 'inspired speech' is a God-given gift ...

.. you know even prison inmates have given testimony that when they prayed or read the holy Word out loud it has changed and bettered the experience of all who heard them ... at every level of authority and every level of understanding...

And yet, there is a difference between a mute's imaginative musings ...& the need for humanity to be human by talking to one another ... for this reason some prophets were given to heal: to cause the dumb to give utterance ... Reply

Four Realms - Four Degrees of the Will to Receive The source of this analysis was taken from the Kabbalists who revealed the four degrees of our desire to receive for self:
The still nature is content to maintain its form of a rock, an molecule etc.

The vegetative begins to seek light, water for growth.

These 2 degrees are restricted to their environment and incapable of opposing the natural laws governing them.

The Animate Degree has its own character & sensation and can move to obtain it's needs. A much greater motivation for self needs than above degrees.They live in the present moment and have limited sensation of other.

The Speaking Degree - We become 'Man' as we develop and have the choice to reform our desire for self-gratification to feel and care for others. With effort we are able to transcend our self/ego, time and space, motion - then we will attain this highest Speaking Degree to merit entry into the spiritual realm. Reply

four realms Bidyuk! As always, thank you for these Rebbe-inspired gems . Each more precious than each! Reply

Four Realms This is very beautiful...you are talking in terms of Ancient times and I yearn this to be now but in all dimensions it is not-in all realms it is not-let me create a challenge if I may. You mention Earth, Rocks. Water, do not transcend-then...Plants transcend by growing-however when you get to man-you mention that one cannot live by computer alone-that technology has played a trick on us all because to "hear" each other and to be close to each other so that we can hear each other is priceless-I feel that is the warning of the Ancient philosopher.. Reply

To Ari Edson I took it mean as follows:

Of all our faculties (Pleasure, Will-Power, Intellect, Emotions and Speech) speech is the only one that is strictly for the outside world.

One doesn’t need speech if she/he is alone.

In other words, speech is the faculty within us that helps us transcend ourselves. Through speech we are able to connect to others and their plight.

Note speech is a faculty; i.e. one can transcend oneself even without physically speaking. When one connects with another’s plight intellectually or emotionally – she/he is intellectually or emotionally “speaking”.

In other words, a mute is just as able to transcend oneself. Reply

one trascend through hearing I dont know if this exactly what the article is trying to say, but i once heard that because the ability of the person of talking, he has been able to grow each generation higher then the one before.
And basically that is because they are able to comunicate what each generation has done during their life. While and animal does somenthing and learn a way of living, by the time he dies he is not able to comunicate the discoverys that he did in his lifetime, or, he is not able to transmit something that he thinks and share he's idea.
But the person does, and thats why each generation grow higher than the one before because they carry the lessons that others inherit them. Reply

two ears, one mouth not only by speaking, but by listening. Reply

hi, they were stupid... They never did seek after God or they would have said; man can not transcend, man can only seek God to be added to by God. Reply

bravo! this is amazing and so profound

thank you for sharing this wisdom

shalom Reply

In what way does one transcend their self through speaking to a differant person in a differant (inner) world? I dont understand what it is about speech that consists of "transcending the very bounds of self". Perhaps you can elaborate? Reply

Absolutely! Reply