Submission
Realize that our bitterness is
because it is not possible to find within time and space what we need to
be happy without bringing Hashem into the picture
When we
come into the world, we are quite aware of the change in circumstances.
We go from being totally nurtured without the need to communicate to
being in a world where we depend on imperfect parents for our lives to
continue. Babies cry and get angry, Hashem why did you send me away, so
deep into this world? When the soul is sent into this world it is told
to be righteous and not wicked, meaning that the layers over us, which
are important in order to be able to exist in this lower world, conceal
the reality that the only Being in the world is Hashem Who is the Source
of our life, our eternity, and our happiness and survival.
Separation
Realize that Hashem wants us to speak in relationship with Him even though we cannot detect Him easily
When
Adom and Chava were one form, they knew the other’s thoughts. Hashem
decided that is was not good for Adom to be alone and He separated them.
Now they became two and had to speak to each other to communicate.
Hashem
is the giver and Nishmas Am Yisrael is the receiver. Bringing what
Hashem desires in time and space requires us to comprehend a great deal
about our existence. Hashem wants to be revealed through our speech and
deeds so that He can be seen in time and space. We are here to receive
from Hashem, but the category of what He desires to give us is a far
greater pleasure and a more eternal joy than the desires that we see
based on a time and space picture, a picture of survival that includes
every day concerns such as health, money, a sense of productivity and
more. While these basic needs are important, our success with reaching
these goals is in Hashem’s Hands. Thus our effort to attain them must
include Him in the picture as the Source.
The most
important insight is to understand how everything that seems like our
lives, e.g. our bodies, our egos, our homes, our environment, have many
qualities that we are familiar with, more familiar even than the tzelem
elokim within us, is nothing more than a garment. Understanding that
what we believe is natural is really only a garment can help us attain
true happiness and put an end to hatred, bitterness, jealousy, and
fear!.
Through our existence, through our pain, we have
the opportunity to recognize that by viewing everything as good, we have
a perspective that can bring the energy animating all the pain into
service of Hashem. Because we experience a suffering, we have standing
to bring bracha through that very channel, when we identify our esteem
based on our effort to reveal Hashem’s glory. When we identify our
esteem with goals to release the Shechina that suffers patiently in our
suffering, we complete something that only we can do, which is to
acknowledge with love in our hearts that Hashem Is One. He alone is the
Source Who does only what is just and good in a two world picture.
Accepting this dimension, which Torah teaches us, realigns us with
Hashem’s thoughts. Our anger or bitterness is merely a roadsign
reminding us that our happiness in serving Hashem has been trapped by
worldly concerns and it is for us to do a repair, to speak to Hashem
that He is One, with consciousness, emunah, and purpose in freeing what
energy we have trapped so that it can open a channel to bring blessing
instead.
Sweetening
Continuing in
relationship with Hashem, to draw the energy through our hearts and
souls to bring it into our speech and deeds in a revealed way. Using our
unique talents and gifts from Hashem, we are able to reveal His
Attributes, tolerating insult, overlooking faults, bearing the burden of
the confusion of mind we all have, forgiving and casting sins into the
sea. When we choose actions that reveal His Attributes, we literally are
giving Hashem a place to operate from within our hearts. This fulfills
His Purpose for creating the world, to be seen in time and space, and He
gives us eternal life and we experience the great pleasure, happiness
in serving Hashem, in its true form.
Try it!!!
