Article of the day    March 23, 2009

 
Kabbalists say that an individual should rise over himself.  What does “over oneself” mean?  It means that you get out of yourself for the sake of your neighbor without making any deals with yourself.  It is even more than what a mother does.  Spirituality is when there are no accounts with oneself at all; it is when a person is completely tuned off from himself.  He makes a shortening on himself, meaning he is completely off himself, and we are unable to do that.  However, if we hear about that, if all our actions are directed to that, then a component appears in us, which is called spirituality.  What do we need it for?  We need it in order to get out of the bubble called our world and bring us to another realm.  We are asked: “What other realms?  What do you want?  What silly things are you talking about?”  However, based on today’s suffering, many people start understanding that it is necessary to unite.  Similarly they should understand that this unity should be above human ego, not from knowing that “I will feel good if everyone else feels good”, but because I have to get out of myself, I must go out to others in order to gain independence from myself, and that is called Godliness.