Sometimes the sages tell us, “This wisdom is out of bounds. This contains truths for which you are not yet ready.”
If your soul is intact, the thirst for that wisdom will become unbearable and you will have no choice but to satisfy it.
In truth, that is the secret reason we are given all these warnings: to awaken that thirst.
I still do not understand about this forbidden water.
Thank you.
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Forbidden Water I am not sure I understand right- There is wisdom that I am not to touch, not to reach because I am not ready for it yet, and the L-rd keeps it from me. But if I stay close to Him, I have the inner knowledge and desire to seek after, to long and thirst for it.- Am I close to what the Rebbe says? Reply
So cryptic
This is tantalizingly cryptic. What does it mean? What is it's implication with regard behaviour?
It certainly gives pause for thought and perhaps a certain kind of affirmation concerning such a thirsting. But how does one gauge what is permitted? Indeed, how does one plot one's wisdom route? This decision making regarding journeying concerns both what one avoids and what one pursues. One may avoid what is not cutivating one's wisdom, not because it is "bad". And what of seeking to learn from the experience of what some say, speaking vaguely & generally & maybe without real understanding, lies out of bounds?
I would like to hear more about this matter. It seems very important. And surely it is something that needs to be explained to those who thirst and are prepared to make their own decisions.
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Forbidden Water.. One word...Wow! You now have explained that feeling I have when after I read the Torah. Reply
non sense this is a example of vain talk..in my humble opinion Reply
Forbidden Water I consider it very inspiring and very truthful especially for a person that is in the process of a life change. Reply
FORBIDEN WATER
Dear Rab Tzvi Freeman:
You make think a lot with your daily dose, thats very good for my soul.
I like the metaphor "water that we´ll never enjoy or see or touch and wisdom attained by the privileged that devote all their time to TORAH and avoda.
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forbidden fruit this is why adam and chava were told don't eat from the tree, becuase they were supposed to work for it Reply
Opening The Faucet For The Water Humanity is ready to receive the Wisdom - the 'water' that will nourish our souls.
All the prerequisites have been established:
- Abraham's group of Israel people who had once attained a high level of spirituality through this Wisdom, were dispersed through the world to intermingle with other nations so that they would help bring the wisdom.
- The ego had to develop until it was recognized how destructive it is and it will devour us if we do not correct it.
- Humanity had to develop intellectually to understand abstractions of time, space, motion. We can now understand what kabbalah is talking about through our minds and feelings.
- Then we have to unite in our yearning to open our senses to the spiritual world. Only in unity of at least 10 we can form the proper structure of qualities to perceive the wisdom - the Upper Spiritual reality.
This time has come. Our only opposition is our love of egoism which opposes this wisdom. This wisdom perceives us as one harmonious soul.