Animals do not gaze in wonder at the stars and angels are confined to the realm of the spirit, but the human being is G‑d’s bridge between heaven and earth.
Our bodies are formed from the dust; our souls are of the essence of G‑d. We alone can look at a physical world and see spiritual life and beauty. We who are beyond both heaven and earth, form and matter, spirit and body—we alone can fuse the two.
Good 🌻 Morning!
Two men [one old, one young] standing on a lake shore were arguing about how to get to the other side. One of the men saw a boat, and said we can use that boat yonder to row to the other side. When they got to the boat, they began to argue again about who had more strength and experience, and who should be the one to row the boat to the other side of the lake. Meanwhile, a young lady [wisdom] walked passed the two men. They didn't HEAR her footsteps, or notice her because of arguing! She walked to a bridge in the distance and crossed over to the other side [ezzy pezzy]. We are all made of stardust and have a soul. Sometimes, our light twinkle brighter than others, but the bridge [Torah] is always there to help anyone to get to the other side "free" of charge redeemed by GD. May our footsteps in the sand leave a mark, our stardust sparkle a light to lead people to the bridge [Torah], and help them get to the other side - a better life, and a better world. 🕊💜
Reply
I’ve also often felt that women are the bridge between men and children. Reply
I believe G D, created a bridge reaching to every thing that was created to be reached by humankind; we just have to be in total connection with our creator, both inside and outside of our bodies. Reply
All of the world in entirety is a bride, which is very narrow, and the trick when passing along it is not to fear falling. Reply
"These are the words of my heart speaking from within" words by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman Beautiful words... enhance my spirit... surely my next audio is going to be "The Problem with Jewish Pride". Let's leave this aside and let me share some thoughts with you; Here, there are Heaven and Earth and you advise us this in your first volume "If you find heaven, do us all a favour and bring it down to earth" But how to fix a spiritual issue? Whenever I want to fix one I find that I'm alone, not because I'm physically alone, but because I'm unable to communicate my visions, simply because since man learned to lie all what you could say can be taken as a pure fantasy with unspeakable aims. Of course, I can be refuted saying: visions of a successful man always materialize in wonderful projects with lots of people benefited, it's almost for sure those visions of yours are just despicable ideas of no public interest. Certainly, I'm a pauper of solemnity and it's in my personal interest and for my personal benefit that I try to fix this issue. Besides, it's a pure spiritual issue with no earthly-material fringes. Reply
qAnimals do look at the stars, they do not have our understanding of stars, but they do look at them. The mn who wrote this did not have much interaction with animals. Are we the Crown of Creation? Reply
How do you know that animals look at the stars as such? Having been around more than my share of animals they have limitations far below people. Animals do not look up. They look downwards, mosty seeking food. They look up, eye level, to see potential danger. Nor do they see colors, sense moods, and other human capabilities.
Animals were not created from the breath of G-d as humans were - are. Fur our sake was this world created, not for the sake of animals. Thinking they matter as much or more is actually insulting to the Holy One Blessed be He, Who wants a relationship with each individual person. Not with animals. They have a purpose, to serve Him in their specific way.
Reply
Creating the Bridge
Man has the ability to create a connection to reach the Spiritual World.
We create this bridge when we aspire as a group to renounce our egoism for the sake of uniting as one man with one heart.
To the extent of our connection we receive a revelation of the Spiritual World between us - This is how the Kabbalists attained their understanding of Creation.
Reply
The Bridge
If we are formed from earth elements, and our soul is ethereal and divine, then we contain heaven and earth so we can transform the form by purifying the heart on earth for the earth is penetrated by
Spirit, Love, innate goodness if we but let go of all our fear/separation, i.e. resistance. We are thus not beyond heaven and earth or our quest would be meaningless.
Reply
Great Honour!
This is a great honour for we human beings that we have access to both physical and spiritual world, simultaneously.
Great thought! Thanks for sharing!
Regards.
Reply
The Bridge
I've heard of animals saving lives and mourning loss. I've seen videos of dolphins playing with bubbles they create. I've even seen a story on a lion adopting a baby gazelle and risking starvation so that she could protect an animal that is usually her prey. So I don't know that they don't have a spiritual side.
I've felt the presence of the Angels here on earth and heard many stories of their coming down to earth - some in our own Sacred Writings.
So are we the only ones with a connection to both the physical and spiritual world. I don't know. Perhaps we are not better than animals or lesser than angels. Perhaps the bridge we need to erect is one between all beings, by seeing G-d in all that is. Can G-d's presence in one being be greater or lesser than in another?
Reply
Jacob's Ladder Did Jacob make a bridge to Gd; or did not Gd reveal the stairway to heaven, upon which angels ascended and descended to the throne of Gd? Gd revealed himself to be the savior for Jacob; Jacob marked that place as the House of Gd. Reply
Our mind and heart dwell in a physical place called 'earth'. This pertains to our natural quality of egoism.
G_d 's quality is defined as 'heaven'. A place where altruism reigns.
Our work is to form a bridge between our nature and His. We can only work with what we have.
We fuse the opposite qualities by using our need for self gratification in a way that includes G_d's quality to provide for others.
In this way we build our soul which transcends our earthy nature and G_d's heavenly nature: We receive what we need and then spread that resource to the whole network. This is similar to how a healthy body works. Each organ takes what it needs from it's role and then passes it's resource to the whole body. Both receiving and giving qualities are integrated to satisfy yourself and the whole network to create a perfect harmonious Soul.