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Collections: Rabbi Weinberger: Getting To Know Me

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p. 133. Resignation does not mean: I am happy with what I have. Although we might have given up on a certain desire, we are still in a state of ratzon (wanting). No matter what happens with our desires, we will always be a neshomoh (soul) - which is whole and pure. Calev and Yehoshua saw the soul of Eretz Yisrael. My joy comes from who I am - my soul! A person who truly lives with his neshomoh never feels that he's lacking anything. Overcoming the guf (body) leads to tasting the neshomoh. A constant flow - conscious or subconscious - of what I want to do or have at this moment. Our dreams and aspirations consume oru life and steal our simchas ha'chayim (joy of life). If I don't have this item, will I be able to live? The shleimus (completeness) of my wanting.