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so rabbi jacobson shares this insight
into
exactly these spiritual laws which he
learned from the laboratory and i'll try
to keep this tight because we have a lot
to cover and it's a little bit mystical
but i think when you hear it you'll
you'll agree that it's self-evidently
true
so he explains that there are two forces
which allow for the animation of the
physical body by the soul and these
forces allow for these two seemingly
antithetically opposite elements
right the divine soul which is a peace
of god himself so to say
and the
body which is made of dirt
so these forces allow for the harmonious
coexistence of these opposite forces to
inhabit the body at the very same time
and these two forces within the soul are
called ratso the shove
rats over
coming from the idea of like rats of
striving of seeking
of yearning and shove
is the opposite right the the return
the grounding the settling it's sort of
like um what's the word it's like
pulsating up and down it's going up it's
like um
you know it's almost like the idea uh to
me is of breathing right inhaling and
exhaling that force of ratso is the part
of the soul that is always striving
higher it is seeking to connect to the
creator and is constantly yearning to
merge with hashem it's constantly pulled
upwards like a magnetic force and the
shove
is the force that wants to
stay alive in this world
to actualize the potential
that's acquired
right after the ratso brings us higher
and closer
and we bring that back down and we can
actualize it it wants to stay in the
body and to elevate the body so if you
followed what i described here and i
wouldn't blame you if you didn't but if
you did it could forever change the way
that you read the verse in proverbs
that begins with the words ner hashem
nishmat
right what does that mean ner hashem
nish matadam the candle of god is the
soul of man
so visualize a candle right the wick
as long as it remains lit
it's like locked in this in this dance
right on the one hand it's striving
upwards
as it it's like drawn to the source
above while at the same time at the time
it's flickering down as well it's
cleaving to the wick for dear life and
drinking the oil that sustains its very
existence
that allows it to exist as a
differentiated unique flame
and it's the tension between those two
impulses
to ascend
yet to exist it's the tension between
the retso and the shove that produces
that light and so that's the same with
the soul of man the yearning to ascend
and come close to god but at the same
time to remain connected to the body to
remain alive uh to remain alive that's
that's the balance and at that moment of
nuclear
spiritual forces at play
the ratso
within the souls of nadav and avihu the
part of them which so yearned to
transcend and cleave to hashem and
cleave to their maker that yearning of
their so was so great that they just
they just gave into it and by
surrendering to that impulse
it created an imbalance
and there are so simply overpowered
their shove
and their souls were literally just
pulled like up and out
out of their bodies like like the flame
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