
Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master

Then we will unveil our soul as we serve God.
Kalonymus Shapira • Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master
Our soul is hidden not only from others, revealing itself only through its actions, but from us as well.
Kalonymus Shapira • Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master
When we serve God with energy and effort, our animal spirit itself is transformed into holiness (as we learn from the holy texts). So our service, a holy service of God, depends upon our animal spirit and human nature.
Kalonymus Shapira • Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master
Through these five senses, we apprehend the world. Once we know about the world, we can act and speak in order to get what we need and want.
Kalonymus Shapira • Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master
We can in some way compare the manifestation of the parts of the spirit in their interactions with the things of this world to a mirror. When we look in a mirror, we do not see the mirror itself but the reflection of something that is not in the mirror or a part of it. Similarly, all that we see in the parts of our spirit as it acts are images of t
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we may know that the soul, which sees yet is not seen, is revealed through its actions.
Kalonymus Shapira • Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master
having established that we gain access to our soul through our emotions, is it possible to imagine the greatness that we can achieve when we sanctify our emotions and when all of our worship of God is accompanied by emotions?
Kalonymus Shapira • Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master
Rather, when a person has the world-to-come even in this world, when he tastes the world-to-come (as it comes to him through a hidden light) in the mitzvot, he will experience the same thing in the world-to-come. But a person who does not taste that in this world will not be able to taste it in the world-to-come.
Kalonymus Shapira • Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master
The greater our emotion and feeling, the more our abilities and senses fall away. And if this emotion grows until it rises as it burns like fiery, flaming coals, then our entire being falls away. And that is called hitlahavut: fiery passion.