Pressurized Escape

That's what this world is all about.

We must avoid the trap of saying, "That's just who I am."

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The Plan So perhaps Chava & Adam didn't fail after all... Reply

What are the different things that can happen to a soul of one who passed? What can we do to support the souls of our loved ones who have passed everyday to help them ascend higher or to make a journey to here lighter in it's lack of it's understanding?
Maybe we are talking about two different subjects?
And how do we understand why a soul might choose to descend to travel here to express something to loved ones but not necessarily to be born into a body again? Maybe some come back to a body?
What are the different things that can happen to a soul of a person who passed? Reply

This is excellent! Thank you so much for posting this! And Rabbi Freeman, your comment below (in the comments section) is excellent to! :-) Reply

A brilliant and sensational explanation. Inspiring and so so clear.
The motivation of the soul's journey here on this level of existence laid bare
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the soul Thank you Rabbi for the answer you gave to Passaic" and thank you to Izzy who answered my question.

Can you please extend this discussion further with regard the soul. because when you read that the soul wants to heal the world..and that the soul can't ascend to a greater height in the the spritual world....please EXPLAIN further.
I am trying to travel a spiritual journey which is full of bumps..I'm on it and off it and constatnly looking for greater clarity.

Books to read that will help...

But THANK YOU for your words. They so often leave me with a feeling of upliftment and give me a smile...so THANK YOU. Reply

Wow. Amazing. Thank you! So our purpose is not to escape the body - rather descend within (experience the pain and joy), rectify and attain a new release for the pure neshama to be elevated even higher-and this is the escape-so to speak Phenomenal. Reply

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Hi Rabbi Freeman,

I thought we are in this world to experience deveikus to Hashem, and elevate the physical to spiritual, by taking the spiritual that Hashem gifts us with and allowing it to flow through and uplift,

so, when you write:

Only then will she learn to leap, to break out of all boundaries, to escape the prison of being.

Do you mean- that we should rise to a space above even "being"- and if so, how do you recommend doing that without leaving our body behind?

please advise,

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great !
I hope that it is as you have written. So let it be done.

Hopeful aspirations and active pursuit makes a ton of sense, common and religious. Reply

Response to Ingride lewis, Kfar Saba, Israel Let me clarify what I think the Rabbi is saying:

The soul, prior to its descent into the physical world/body, rises higher and higher each day in its perception and sense of G-D’s light.

However, beyond G-D’s light and revelation there is G-D Himself.

The soul however is “blinded” so to speak by the amazing revelations it experiences that it can’t get beyond the revelation to reach for G-D Himself.

This all changes when it descends into this world. When it sees the animal soul totally transform itself (after the G-Dly soul teaches it) to appreciate G-D – it then recognizes that it too can transform completely and reach for G-D Himself! Reply

Daily Dose...the Soul If the soul is moving upward how can it be standing still.
I did not understand all of this metaphor.

Can you please explain further. Reply

the body strives for truth. is the soul in prison? The body is now praying and seeing the world with Hashem concealed in it, so the soul is happy?

Or the soul is happy because the body understand her?

It is interesting to think of what the soul is? and what the soul does when it breaks out?

One reads bringing warmth everywhere makes the soul happy whereas anger might drive it to prison. IN my family going through tough times of rehabilitating one cannot always be smiling and bringing happy.How does the body be warm while doing Gevurah for ex which is withdrawal of kindness to achieve beauty?

I probably am confused about balancing my own soul in relationship with other people? I do not always detect the bad and good.

Maybe the goal is not to always to make my own soul happy because the body needs truth? The body cannot let a relative take their things for example so to sacrifice my soul needs for the other person's soul may be a dilemna? Confronting the other who I love is tough for my soul? Reply

"that" And "that" is a prison....?!
May I enquire on the following
The sentence begins "And that"
Is "that"
being the prison
Or
Is "that"
the prison of desire that is to ascend(return)
Whereas
the Divine soul simply "is"
Beneficience in material it expands Reply

"prison of being" I conceptualize the words, but I'm insecure towards my own understanding - please elaborate on these words. They have touched a part of me that is rarely touched and I am most certain that I need greater insight to such understandings... Reply

It took me a while, but I finally got it! Then being must mean body? Ok, then I find this yearning can be misread which can lead to addiction, idolizing of icons?
Why is the word prison used can it be a negative? I don't feel my soulful connection above is a prison! Reply