As much as we know ourselves, we can say that there are certain parts within us, in both our physical and mental structures, over which we have control, and other parts overwhichwe do not. Some of these systems of ours, corporeal systems, internal systems, spiritual and psychological systems, are arranged in us this way naturally and some are created by our upbringing...
In the previous part of this article, we discussed man’s essence and whether he possesses freedom of will or not. We saw that when we consider the way a person is assembled in this world, he has no freedom of choice whatsoever...
I would say it is the fundamental article of the Wisdom of Kabbalah, which clarifies where the place is, where we can exert our efforts and build ourselves with our efforts. Is there freedom for a person or are we merely puppets being managed from Above, through natural forces, thoughts, desires, hormones, genes, where we discover that we’re actually being activated by some inner drives or information...
We talked about four factors that operate on us, that we are caged in, and cannot move away from. They determine our life, our fate; these are the bed, the conduct of the evolution of our bed, the environment that can induce changes in the bed, and the conduct of the evolution of the environment through which it also induces changes in us...
What is one law? We will soon clarify this. What have we talked about so far? We said that man is only a will to receive wanting nothing other than to receive pleasures. He has no other tendency. He was born with it, and wants only to satisfy himself. It is his natural inclination...
Up until now we have said that four elements completely operate the whole system of a person: the bed, the conducts of the evolution of the bed, the environment, and the conducts of the evolution of the environment, which influence the individual, meaning one’s bed. We are within these four elements and they determine everything: who we are, how, and in which direction we evolve...
Today we are continuing the article ‘The Freedom’. We’re going to finish it. We are at its one before last part. It’s called ‘Two Creations: Man; and A Living Soul’. We started it and we’ll repeat it...