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what sin means).
The aspect of sin, is as we have explained (and he says where we have explained it), that the
sin means whether he breaks the principle of not adding in the aspect of, ‘you will not add’
(such an principle exists in the Torah, you will not add and you will not decrease.
All those prescriptions… but a human being is tended to add or decrease things, and with
adding a man things to become better. So if something is written, then I’m going to make it
heavier, then I’m better, but that’s forbidden.
You can’t for example on Sjabbat turn on the light, but of course you need light, so you can
set timers to automatically turn the light on and off.
But there exists a Jewish movement called Karaism and they understand everything literally.
It’s for example written in the Torah: “you will not turn on the light”, so they just wall in the
dark…
This is of course not the way to do it, but sometimes they add things, so what does he say
with “you will not add”, what is then the sin?) this means that the true path is to go above
your understanding (this is something very special that we’ll learn, to go above our
understanding.
They don’t understand it so they just do it literally, he does it with his earthly intellect, he
tries to interpret the Torah with his mind. But WE have to go above our understanding.
and that is called the aspect of belief (because the mind does only say what the facts are in
my reality, but we have to go above our understanding, believe by which I still research, but
we go above our mind), and the opposite of that is the aspect of knowing (the opposite of
belief above understanding is the aspect knowing.
We want to know), that the body understands that it has no other choice, except to believe
that there is no other solution than to go above your understanding (our body always wants
to know and needs facts.
We have to teach our body that there is nothing to do about it, except to go above our mind.
Because whispers inside us want to understand… go back to sleep, why do you have to get
up at night, you are crazy, you don’t have any benefit of it, and so on…
Or on the contrary; the whispers say how holy you are, you are so good, you did enough. The
whispers inside you have only one purpose to put you off from your work. Only by going
above our understanding our body will surrender.
Your body listens to you, leaves you alone and right at the moment when you think you won,
he’ll catch you again. It doesn’t mean that your whole life is a battle, of course not. You just
have to be attentive, because there are everywhere temptations. The temptations aren’t
bad, their purpose is to make you an adult, so we don’t stay as puppets.
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