Part 8 · Chapter 27

Spiritual Growth Mirrors Physical Growth 0:00

כמו מסוף מדרגה דרוחניות הצמיחה נעשה כח הצמיחה בגשם. So, for example,

from the lowest levels of the spiritual concept of growth, because the spiritual concept of growth exists on, you know, much more abstract levels than like plants growing from dirt. But the most practical, tangible kind of growth, concept of growth is is something that can relate to physical growth with the ground,

and that becomes like the source of like the physical growth. You know what I mean? That in order for it to work, it has to go in a certain form, and that's the form why the physical growth has a certain form.

וכמו סוף של חיות הרוחני דנפש מלובש בדם, or like the lowest level of the spiritual, the the consciousness of the soul goes into the blood, the power, knows the power of movement goes in like into the blood. כמו שכתוב כי הדם הוא הנפש וכולי, like it says that the blood is the soul, that only the the part of your like soul that's able to be revealed in in like the energy of your body, like the desire for movement, the power of movement and all these things, is only like the the most external and like most defined like application of the the the spiritual idea of movement.

Intellect’s Light Merges with the Brain 1:27

וכך סוף מדרגה של אור השכל הרוחני מתמזג בחומר כלי המוח, and the same thing with the the lowest level of intellect that can go into the brain.

וכן סוף הגשמה דרוחניות הראייה ממוזג בחומר העין, and the lowest level of sight goes into the eye, because it's not like the actual spiritual ability, the actual consciousness doesn't go into the body. The brain doesn't actually like have the consciousness of thinking or the creative ability, it's just it just because there is a certain form to the spiritual power, so that those specifications are represented in the physical form.

But that's only like the most external parts of it that like can have a physical form representation, but the more spiritual parts of it stay in the realm of spirit.

ולזאת אנו רואים, therefore we find, שבכל מקום באין הגדלת החומר עם הגדלת הצורה כאחת ממש. That's why that the the body and the soul grow together.

In other words, that as you your body develops physically, your the spiritual powers develop, and they they always work together, they always go together. כמו בהגדלת חומר כלי הגוף, שנגדלים ביחד עם גידול אור וחיות הצורה הרוחנית, like the body that as you get older, your body grows and develops, at the same time you mature emotionally, intellectually, and you know, and your strength gets bigger, you know what I mean?

They come together, right? It's not a coincidence, because it it it has to be. The body gets when the body become grows, it's becoming a better vessel, that's what's happening.

Exercise Refines the Vessel for Divine Light 3:19

No, but the אור is there, but you the the thing is you need the vessel to become better so that it can hold the light better.

But it works both ways, that that, in other words, as the body develops, then it's able to hold more light, and also when you use your body more, like for example if you exercise, you'll get stronger, and your will get bigger, your muscles will get bigger, they'll grow. So from the light coming in more, in other words, the more that you use a certain power, and in other words, that shows that you have more of a רצון for it, and you bring that light in, so that makes your body become a better vessel for that, because in other words, that that that every time that you do something with your body, your soul is you know, is shining a certain light into your body, and what that does is that it it refines your body to be a better vessel for that light.

So the more that you do a certain thing, the more your body will will build itself to be conformed to that that light. And that's why if you exercise a lot, your body gets stronger, and if you but, you know, only the type of exercise that you do, and if you think a lot, you're you'll get smarter in the kind of things you think about, cuz your your body's really just like this simple matter, and according to the what what desire your soul expresses through it, the body will conform to that and try to be as good of a vessel as it can for that form.

So it works both ways, that that as your body develops, your soul's capable of doing more in it, and the more that you exert yourself in something, the more your body will become better at it. will make itself grow for that.

So it works both from the body will just on its own develop a certain amount, which allows more of your which opens up you to greater potential, and then also the more that you push yourself the more the body will develop potential. All right, כמו גידול הכנת חומר המוח בערך גידול הארת צורת שכל,

Brain Development Linked to Intellectual Growth 5:16

like the development of the brain according to the development of intellect, which means both that as שכאשר יגדל תינוק ויצמח הארת שכלו ברוחניות ממילא יצמח כלי הכנת מוחו, as a child grows and develops mentally, matures, the same time the brain matures physically.

And it works both ways, that there's just a certain physical process of the brain maturing, and also as you start to think more, your brain that caused your brain to develop more. It works both ways. כמו שכתוב ימים ידברו ורוב שנים

וכולי, that days speak and many years bring I think what a דעה or something like that, that many that that just going through life you're

you develop more, your abilities develop more. And that's both because your body develops physically and because you use it more, and so it makes your body develop physically. And it's kind of it goes hand in hand. שנגדל הכלי עם האור יום ויום עד ע' שנה שבא לכלל גדלות המוחין כידוע וד"ל, that every single day the vessel develops along with the light, and they both develop together until at 70 years old you're reach complete intellectual maturity, and the brain is completely physically completely mature also.

Vessel and Light Grow Until Seventy 6:23

And that's just with the brain, but then there's also, you know, other things. Yeah, if they would have maybe if they would have used their brain more, then they would be better, but it takes no matter how much you think, and this is why in תורה there's a certain thing of like בר מצוה and 20 or six for like חינוך, nine, you know what I mean? There's certain ages that, you know, doesn't matter if you're like a רבי that's like really smart and really mature physically and spiritually, you're still not בר מצוה until 13.

And even if you're 13, if you don't have two hairs, you're not בר מצוה, because you need both in order to be that mature. You have to have gone through so many days, because every single day more of your soul comes out. And it's not just and it's impossible for it it for no matter there's a certain thing that happens just from the passage of time regardless of you your effort, that your soul you just experience more things, and you see more situations, and without trying to, you without any effort on your part, you have to mature every single day just from the process of life.

That's the way God set it up. And so you need that amount of time to to get reach to that level of maturity, but also if there's a problem with your body, that it's not a proper vessel for that level maturity, like if a person doesn't have two hairs yet, that show then we then he's not בר מצוה yet, because you need both. But on the other hand, if you have two hairs before בר מצוה, you're not בר מצוה, because you need the time.

So you need both to be together to have full maturity. If you put in effort, so you'll be more mature, but it will only be within what can be accomplished by that age. In other words, a 20-year-old is never going to have the same depth of maturity as a 70-year-old. There's something that you gain with age, which is why, according to תורה, it's to stand up for somebody that's old, even if they're even somebody that's not Jewish, even somebody that that's not smart, that that's not, you know what I mean?

There's a certain thing that an elderly person has, just from experiencing so much life, that they they feel the essence of things more, and there's just yeah, it's the idea of the אור and the כלי. That the passage of time brings in more light, and as that happens, the the body also develops.

You need both.