Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 221): Be a Mishkan - Mesillas Yesharim

good morning it should be a good morning should be a good day filled with good news for 10 minutes of meeting is generously sponsored by sh shitz in honor of their parents and children incredibly grateful for their generosity we're on the 26th chapter of as I've been saying the home stretch the mid of K the final mid of sanctity and of Holiness we last left off and the r has been helping us chart a course towards a better and better version of ourselves was talking about the difference between tahara and kadus the difference between living with Purity and living with Holiness so now he defines what's one who attains this level of Holiness again we live not for happiness our life is not defined by what gives us joy or pleasure or happiness we live not for happiness we live for Holiness and what does it mean to live with Holiness is to be glue we glue ourselves to hem we attach ourselves to hem whatever we're going through however we go through our day whatever is happening to us or whatever we make happen it's all with de we have glued ourselves we attach ourselves to hasem to glue ourselves regularly consistently constantly to hem the and a person's soul that walks in thought regarding those matters that are of a high Transcendent nature to love and to have all of him life is not just to be a to be K to live a life of kadha to be a Kad is not just the Happy Times the good times to with the it's also to feel the awesomeness a sense of awe that we are accountable that there are consequences that he has expectations of us such a person is considered as if you're walking before the to live a life of to be a is to be so connected so attached so aware so mindful so conscious of Hashem throughout the day that you may physically be in this world but a person is already living in another world in another dimension in another space if you've been Z if you've merited to know such a holy person we have Holy sadik andos G that the world knows are kados and then there are private people seemingly ordinary people who really are kados and you interact and you spend time with them and you say to yourself we're occupying the same Globe the same Earth we live in the same world but we're living in two different worlds their Consciousness their connection their perspective we're living in two different worlds that's what it means to be a kados is that person is not riding the wave and the rhythm of the Here and Now person is not distracted or tempted by this world by the physical by the material to be a kados to be so connected so attached to experience and interpret everything that happens in this world it's all coming from Hashem now the truth is used this language that the soul is in thought regarding those matters you're in this world in that way in his commentary says in that way in this way when a human being could live there's a reason the ra has this as the final mid had this as the final character trait of this complicated formula it's really hard it's really tough It's really aspirational when a person lives at that level you're greater than an angel you're greater than a Malik because the Mal doesn't have a physical being and a physical body the Mal isn't living in a world of Temptation or desire the Mal is programmed as an extension of but a human being a bustam who's made up of both a soul and a body who's part of the Here and Now of the this world of the physical material world but also as a also as a to be able to have that Salim so Define us so overwhelm so live with without being distracted by the Goof such a person is greater is higher than even a Mal because a Mal doesn't know what that means Mal doesn't know what that means I visited someone this week very special person neb is suffering and struggling with ALS a horrific horrific disease and has paralyzed in his entire body with the exception of the movement of his eyes paralyzed entirely has a tra a feeding tube the only thing entirely mentally emotionally spiritually healthy aware and present but only can communicate through the movement of his eyes and Technology thank God can writing and Publishing AAR Torah unbelievable like YY herwitz in California somebody else a very holy special person locally who has that and after the visit I thought to myself I just spent time with a Mal a Mal he doesn't eat he doesn't go through the physical Temptations desires distractions tensions that human beings do a Mal he's a pure the Goof has broken down the Goof has failed the gof Goof is being sustained by others such a person is as if a Mal a Malik and the more physically debilitated he's become the more spiritual his family said he's become spending most of the day learning and through his eye movement painstakingly writing this Torah it's exceptional it's extraordinary he's a special person his family are incredibly special people but it's an interaction with a Mal there's no goof so says such an individual kados is higher than a Mal because a doesn't have doesn't have free will a isn't tempted such a person has lived the level that they have transformed their lives into being a mishan what's a mishan the root of the word mishkan is sh the root of the word sh is to be a neighbor with Hashem is to give housing to Hashem is to give a platform and a presence to be a conduit a vehicle Theos achieved and reached this level Theos were the Chariot through which hem traverses the world through which Hashem is accessible and exposed revealed to the world Theos that level so everything about them conformed with hashem's will they so lived with the awareness the presence of being on a mission of being accountable to Hashem so they became the merova they became the Chariot of Hashem and that's what we can be that's what we can Aspire with healthy bodies please God to be able to with our healthy body and through the body the Free Will that we have nevertheless be so defined by our soul and aspire to be a kados to not live for happiness to live for holiness to be able to get to that level that we are is is it says what's the Mish the soul no the Goof the body so that each human each material physical thing that we do when we do it in the context of being here to serve Hashem of being of being people of kadus then we turn the Goof the body itself is turned into the mishkan that's the mentioned yesterday in the par the end of this week's after after M enter this bris with they saw they perceived what do they do after an incredible spiritual High Kish let's eat let's eat let's eat that's a spiritual High we spoke about yesterday yeah if you could turn the Goof into a mish after after you become a Kad it's not the eating and drinking of freshing hungry ordinary human beings who just want to stuff their face when a person's a kados they're eating in a way that they're actually connecting to Hashem who's the source of Life who designed us that we need to eat to live so the eating is not a mundane profane secular animal activity the eating itself is transformed to a holy activity the coming to shabas Tish Friday night the the doctrine of the of of um of eating the of the Reb is that the Reb ate the food in a different way so that food is not ordinary food that food contains the Sparks of someone who turned their goof into a mishan and then if we eat it hopefully it has a good impact on us too hopefully it can rub off on us as well that's the idea that's the whole notion so whether you subscribe to that or not in in this chapter of is is challenging us we don't have to live for happiness we can live for Holiness we can our day could be informed and inspired by this awareness Hashem what does he want from me what does he expect from me how am I grateful what do I owe how am I obligated what are my responsibilities what are my duties how do I experience this entire world and when I do we transform not the into the mishkan our goof becomes a mish and AA forem in this world 15 Minutes Living withun we'll 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