Can you please give the source of the Zohar you mentioned in response to a question concerning the ability of emotions to grasp G-d. Wouldn't that contradict the idea that our animal soul rests in the heart while our G-dly soul rests in our mind? Reply

Rabbi Tzvi Freeman May 10, 2020

in response to Toby:

This can be found in Zohar III 289b.

In chapter nine of Tanya, near the beginning, you’ll find that G‑dly soul rests both in the mind and the right ventricle of the heart. It’s a lot more quiet than the animal, but if you listen carefully, it can be heard. Reply

Toby Brooklyn May 15, 2020

in response to Rabbi Tzvi Freeman:

Thank you so much for the clarification. This class really inspired me to the point that i wrote a poem concerning understanding the G-d and His oneness.

Echad Mi Yodea- Who Knows One?
who really knows One?
can finite understand none?
rays are just one sun
a flow of words from the Holy One
heaven and earth born a mishkan
who really knows One?
the souls of the chosen son
crowned by the river where emotions run
finite cannot understand none
but here infinity has just begun Reply

Tzvi Freeman January 29, 2015

For Irma That's one way of putting it. Perhaps even better: It's the meeting place for communication. Or, in techy terms, the interface. Reply

Irma Philadelphia January 29, 2015

Would you say Torah is the communicate with us? Reply

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