Desire and the Soul...

[muninnskiss]

According to Reb Hershy in his Torah of Desire, G-d desired to desire us.  In the Constriction, he created a hole in himself, a Desire, in which to create the universe.  But G-d never changes, so this space, this Desire, was always there.  Before the Desire, which of course there was no before, there was the Ain (or Ayin), Nothing, G-d, the

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[arethinn]

I -- uh -- wow. This is poking a special place in my brain right now. Thank you for posting this.

[muninnskiss]

You're welcome.

FFF,
~Muninn's Kiss

[arethinn]

I've been mulling this over a while. See, I thought having that Emptiness, that Negative Space in there was a problem in and of itself. It was a blinking "...oh, so you mean... wait... oh?" to be presented with the idea that while feeling pain or angst about it is probably a sign of things being out of whack, the simple existence of the Empty Place, which of course I try to fill with all kinds of things (clothes, stuff, alcohol, what-have-you) and none of it ever works, is not Something Wrong With Me and a problem Real People don't experience, but in fact divine design.

[muninnskiss]

Exactly!

FFF,
~Muninn's Kiss