#kelipah

[madewithonerib]

Personal Tanya Day 42: Blinded by Husk (CH20.1) | Dovid Vigler 2025-02-02 | Sun, 04 Shvat 5785 | Kelipah no Match for GOD's Light James 1:5 Connect to GOD WHO Gives Wisdom Generously

James 1:5 [ESV] If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask GOD, WHO gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Luke 1:37 [ESV] For nothing will be impossible with GOD.”

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[madewithonerib]

Personal Tanya Day 41: Blinded by Sin's Veil (CH19.1) | Dovid Vigler 2025-02-01 | Sat, 03 Shvat 5785 | Beinoni Blind to Love of GOD by Sinful Desires [Kelipah: Husk = Dead Inside] #Have our Cake & Eat it too

2 Corinthians 3:13-16 [ESV] Not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, bc only through CHRIST is it taken away. Yes to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the LORD, the veil is removed. #Generation Curse

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Am still listening to TJK's sermon on confidence in prayer, and he is hitting the topic of exactly what I heard GOD whisper to me a few months ago: "It's not going to happen as you expect," with regards to mergers-and-acquisitions vs. high-net-worth divorce [1:06] Basically the person he married was not the person he had his eye on, which is prayer 101 and the crux of this lesson in the Tanya. #contentinGOD

[ouroboros8ontology]

The cause of this “breaking of the vessels,” which releases the whole complexity of the cosmological drama and determines man’s place in it, appears in Luria’s and Vital’s doctrine under varying aspects. In the immediate sense, the event is traced back to certain technical flaws in the structure of the Sefirotic atom-cosmos from which the ‘accident’ follows with necessity. In a profounder sense, however, the event is due to what I propose to term, with Tishby [a pupil of Scholem’s], the cathartic cause. For Luria, the deepest roots of the Kelipot, or “shells,” i. e. the forces of evil, existed already before the breaking of the vessels and were mixed up, so to speak, with the lights of the Sefiroth and the above mentioned Reshimu, or residue of En-Sof in the primordial space. What really brought about the fracture of the vessels was the necessity of the cleansing of the Sefiroth by eliminating the Kelipot, in order to give a real existence and separate identity to the power of evil.

Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism; Seventh Lecture: Isaac Luria and his School

[rabbiaharon]

The forces of kelipah were very, very strong tonight, as today was the solstice, and there's quite a bit of avodah zara that goes on. I went to another shul to daven, in Boro Park, which was much needed. It was like having a shabbos during a weekday. They're not a Lubavitch shul, not specifically anyway, but they are definitely Chassidishé, nusach Ari more or less, and all. I've rarely seen my chevra daven with such strength. You could see the powers of impurities gathering and stacking against us, building through krias shema, stopping our davening from ascending. And then during the chatzi kaddish, when we got to "Amen, y'hei shmei raba...", something broke. The kelipah shattered, and the opposition dissolved, and a straight path opened in front of us, as our prayers streamed from below to above, in a great, unstoppable torrent. I believe I will be davening there again, at least from time to time.