Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 228): Rise Above the Physical - Mesillas Yesharim

good morning good morning from Israel and around the world please help yourself to coffee and donuts thank you to our generous series sponsor of 10 minutes of meeting and EST in honor of their parents and children we are very very grateful to them we are in the home stretch as we've been saying couple of paragraphs left but important ones worth spending time on the in this kadha the last mid in the formula of has describing that a Jew doesn't live for happiness a Jew lives for Holiness and Holiness means to be connecting to the Divine to be clinging to Hashem to hear him speaking to us and to speak to him to feel his presence all throughout our day to transform every interaction we have with what seems like the mundane the physical and the material to elevate it and to be the spiritual to live this life and then the ra went through the ma the things that are the impediments and the obstacles the distractions and the detractions the things that keep us from living that life a life of K and lastly he told us we therefore need we need tremendous Divine assistance in order to attain this level in order to be able to live this lifestyle and here the completes his wonderful Monumental work by telling us that if a person can rise and Elevate to this level if a person can live this life this Consciousness this mindfulness this intention this presence then indeed we can Merit the Divine assistance to achieve something that we thought was unachievable namely rues we can have divine inspiration where our understanding will transcend the limits of human capability we can get to a place of clinging to that is so great that we in fact can have the keys we can have access to resurrect the dead even though the Miss thear tells us that while we have been empowered to go conquer hashem's World there are three keys he holds on to conception reain and Resurrection all three having to do with sustaining life but that's true for the ordinary person person who lives such a level that they transcend their basic human animal Soul they've elevated themselves to be so high so otherworldly that indeed they have rues and like the story since Hashem is the source of all life and the sustainer of life and provides life the more we cling to Hashem and we are an extension and a conduit of Hashem the more we express and manifest that capacity that capability so again this is otherworldly and I don't know that we know anyone in our time in our generation or Generations past who've merited this final stage of the ram but the RAM wants us to know it's out there it's possible there is such a there is such a level of a person who merits Divine assistance fores what does one have to do to achieve that in order to live beyond the physical you have to live beyond the physical in order to be able to be beyond the physical the limitations of the physical and the material then you have to live above the physical and the material that doesn't mean you could live without eating and sleeping you'll die the human being was designed to need those things but not to be defined by those things do you eat to live or do you live to eat do you live to sleep or do you sleep to live do you feel as and do is our entire life a sense of a mission and whatever we're doing is only to contribute to that mission the higher that we can climb in this world the less we are drawn to and defined by the physical and the material the closer we get to him and the more that we Merit his assistance to be able to be like him one of the three keys we weren't given was resurrection of the dead so you're right when there are degrees of separation between us and God then there are three things we don't have the keys to the closer you are to God then the more you have access to the drawer that has those keys so you're right if you're an acquaintance a stranger a friend a distant family member then don't get into the drawer that has the keys to my house my car my condo but if you're a Ben bias if you're a member of the Inner Circle if you're a member of the family if you're a spouse and the other half it's not your car in my car we're one person it's ours so the closer you are to Hashem you have access to keys that are off limit to other says completes his formula that is based on by saying that this final attribute of kadha one lives a life of sanctity and Holiness of elevation than they merites and a person who merits rues even as the power to have access to a key that ordinary and others are off limits that is the key to now he runs into the final stretch and you my dear reader you my Pleasant and dear reader is that sweet you feel like the's talking to you we've been at this for a long time I don't know what number this is but we've been at this for a long time and it's so sweet that is talking right to us my sweet and dear reader I realized that you would recognize as I do that I didn't explicate I didn't really Express or really communicate all the parts and aspects of piety I couldn't possibly say everything there is to say about this there's no end if we wanted to really expand on the quality of piety and how you attain it you live your best self and motivation you're never done there's not part number it's endless a I said a little bit about every quality from the formula upon which I've based this book and all I offered you was a beginning all I offered you was a start so I gave you the formula formula I gave you a little bit to think about to be literate on each of the ingredients in this formula so that it's before our eyes allowing us to walk along in this path and about you about this about what we've done together sweet dear delicious reader is what the pish says the Learned person will listen and increase his knowledge and the contemplative one will acquire the profundities and if a person puts themselves in a direction a trajectory if a person wants to be purified Hashem will help them first thing you want is to want if you don't want you won't get anywhere if you don't know where you're going then anywhere will get you there but if you know where you want to go if you know who you want to be then Hashem will help you so do we want to be the answer the result do we want to be the conclusion of for will impart wisdom from his mouth knowledge and understanding to direct each person's path before the Creator so we have a paragraph and a half left the next time will be the final for the M then he has is an epilog afterwards which will complete so probably two or three more and we're done with Miss which leaves you wondering right now what are we learning next and it leaves me wondering the same so we have two or three after pesak we'll find out together but my dear listeners thank you for coming on this journey living with amuna in 15 minutes tonight's behind the beima is Behind the Music Behind The Man Behind the concert with yibo