Why do we want to connect to our Soul?

Most people use one or another approach for a guidance system to navigate though life.

Some use a mentor, frequently in the context of an ideology.

Still others use the internal connection, again often combined with a form of ideology.

However, no believe system can give us a GPS-like directions through life, and no mentor can do it for you either.

The question: “What do I do in this particular situation?” Is usually resolved by people either by following purely rational logical train of thought (heavily influenced by subconscious mind, which most have no idea about) or by trying to see the situation though the lenses of particular ideology, which hopefully takes more accurate picture of the reality.

The logical pathway usually doesn’t work too well, because people tend to take into account very negligible number of factors leaving out most real “situation makers” and also because the subconscious bias frequently makes a joke out of this “logic”.

Following a form of ideology that has developed solution templates might work better,

Especially if this ideology survived a few thousand years and helped it’s adherents to survive as well.

Still, too often those pathways leave us grasping for the ultimate answer to the question:

“How do I really know which decision is right?”

The great news is that we all have our own GPS with complete map of our life and almost unlimited (compare to our constricted feelings) visibility.

Our soul provides us with Divine Providence in our lives, however extent of this guidance depends on us: our actions, emotions, speech and thoughts.

How do we “turn on” the system and make it work? How do we make the connection to our soul?

We will continue in the next post.

Connection · Divine Providence · GPS · Ish Tam · Neshamah · Soul

“Ish Tam” – simple, innocent, wholesome man – that’s how Torah calls our forefather Yaakov. “Tam” is also used in Haggadah to describe the third son, where it sometimes interpreted as “simpleton”. However Haggadah gives a key into the real meaning in that context as well:

The third son’s question is “Mah Zot?” – What is that?

Normally in Hebrew we ask “Mah Ze?” – for generic and male subjects.

“Mah Zot?” however signifies female subject – and beautiful explanation tells us that Tam sees Shehinah – Hashem’s presence (which is linguistically and kabbalistically female), however doesn’t exactly understand what he sees…

So our task here is to understand what is that we see… with our eyes and our soul – and use it to fulfill to the best our potential – to get closer to our Source and help our dear brothers and sisters.

Why call the site “Ish Tam” ?

“Ish Tam” – simple, innocent, wholesome man – that’s how Torah calls our forefather Yaakov. “Tam” is also used in Haggadah to describe the third son, where it sometimes interpreted as “simpleton”. However Haggadah gives a key into the real meaning in that context as well:

The third son’s question is “Mah Zot?” – What is that?

Normally in Hebrew we ask “Mah Ze?” – for generic and male subjects.

“Mah Zot?” however signifies female subject – and beautiful explanation tells us that Tam sees Shehinah – Hashem’s presence (which is linguistically and kabbalistically female), however doesn’t exactly understand what he sees…

So our task here is to understand what is that we see… with our eyes and our soul – and use it to reach our goal of coming to this world – to get closer to our Source and help our dear brothers and sisters.

Haggadah · Hebrew · Ish Tam · Jewish · Kabbalah · Passover · Pesach · Torah