by Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook
I must speak of myself a great deal.
Matters of my essential being must become extremely clear to me.
When I understand myself, I will understand everything—the world and life—until my understanding will reach the Source of life.
Chadarav
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
From Within Myself
by Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook
From within myself, from my wellsprings, I must always take the hidden treasures.
I am always connected to a holy suffering that results from my search for supernal perfection.
That search is never fulfilled. Indeed, it has no need to be fulfilled.
This is the nature of such ever-lasting yearning: its foundation is divine thirst. Nothing in the world can slake that thirst except that which it seeks: the on-going revelation and ever-growing experience of the thirst itself.
That itself is transformed into the source of all pleasure, into the platform for all spiritual delights, into the radiance of the Almighty.
Chadarav
From within myself, from my wellsprings, I must always take the hidden treasures.
I am always connected to a holy suffering that results from my search for supernal perfection.
That search is never fulfilled. Indeed, it has no need to be fulfilled.
This is the nature of such ever-lasting yearning: its foundation is divine thirst. Nothing in the world can slake that thirst except that which it seeks: the on-going revelation and ever-growing experience of the thirst itself.
That itself is transformed into the source of all pleasure, into the platform for all spiritual delights, into the radiance of the Almighty.
Chadarav
Friday, September 19, 2008
The Water in Which Faith Grows
by R. Nachman of Breslov
It is important to dig and find the water in which faith grows.
And that “water” corresponds to solution-oriented ideas, out of which faith grows.
This is related to the verse, “I will praise Your name, for You have done something that comes out of nowhere; solutions from afar, deeply faithful” (Isaiah 25).
Such solutions correspond to the depth of the heart.
In other words, when a person’s faith is damaged and it falls, when even crying out does not help him—i.e., not even a simply outcry without words—then a person has to cry out from his heart only, as in the verse, “Their heart cried out to Hashem” (Lamentations 2). In that case, only the heart cries out, without a sound, as in the verse, “From the depths have I called out to You, Hashem” (Psalms 130)—from the depths of the heart.
And the depth of the heart corresponds to solution-oriented ideas, as in the verse, “Deep waters are solutions in the heart of a person” (Proverbs 20).
And so, when crying out does not help because one’s faith has fallen, then one has to cry out from the heart alone, without a sound, only from the depth of the heat.
And as a result, the solutions are revealed, which correspond to “deep waters are solutions….”
And when such solutions are revealed in the world—i.e., when people know how to solve their problems—then faith grows. “Solutions from afar, deeply faithful.”
Likutei Moharan II 5:2
It is important to dig and find the water in which faith grows.
And that “water” corresponds to solution-oriented ideas, out of which faith grows.
This is related to the verse, “I will praise Your name, for You have done something that comes out of nowhere; solutions from afar, deeply faithful” (Isaiah 25).
Such solutions correspond to the depth of the heart.
In other words, when a person’s faith is damaged and it falls, when even crying out does not help him—i.e., not even a simply outcry without words—then a person has to cry out from his heart only, as in the verse, “Their heart cried out to Hashem” (Lamentations 2). In that case, only the heart cries out, without a sound, as in the verse, “From the depths have I called out to You, Hashem” (Psalms 130)—from the depths of the heart.
And the depth of the heart corresponds to solution-oriented ideas, as in the verse, “Deep waters are solutions in the heart of a person” (Proverbs 20).
And so, when crying out does not help because one’s faith has fallen, then one has to cry out from the heart alone, without a sound, only from the depth of the heat.
And as a result, the solutions are revealed, which correspond to “deep waters are solutions….”
And when such solutions are revealed in the world—i.e., when people know how to solve their problems—then faith grows. “Solutions from afar, deeply faithful.”
Likutei Moharan II 5:2
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