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Hello. >> Hey y >> can you see why the Torah and the rabbis used fire, wind, water, and earth to describe all of physicality, emotionality, and spirituality? >> Yes. Because those four aren't things, they're patterns. Fire is energy and expansion. Water is flow and emotion. Wind is movement and thought. Earth is form and stability. But why only those four? There are more elements. No, >> they're not counting substances. They're mapping behaviors. Everything either expands, flows, moves, or holds shape. >> I never found a good word in English for midas. There's only like character trait. >> That's because mids aren't traits. They're tendencies of motion. Emotion is the feeling. Motion is the direction. Anger, love, fear, those are surface waves. Meadows are the currents underneath. >> But what we call emotions, anger, charity, humility, that's what we call midas. That's midas. No, >> exactly. Torah treats them as orientations of the self. Anger is outward surge. Love is movement toward. Humility is contraction. >> So what's a feeling then? A feeling is the sensation of motion. Mida moves first. The feeling is how it's experienced inside. >> So the feeling of a kiss, a hug, that's not love. >> Correct? That's sensation and pleasure. Love is the movement toward another. Feeling is the echo. >> Okay. So bottom line, do all emotions, feelings, character traits, mis whatever you want to call it, fit into these four? Yes. Aish, expansion, passion, anger, drive. May, attraction, love, pleasure, bonding, ru, thought, speech, change, restlessness. Afar, restraint, humility, patience, stability. Infinite expressions, four directions. Very interesting. Thank you.