Self Control

A wonderful quote found in the book "Positive Parenting, Developing Your Child's Potential" will be provided here. It is from page 62...

"The physical body is selfish, and in pursuit of it's desires may cause a person to act with lust, greed, envy, and hostility. It is these characteristics that comprise a barrier which prevents the unity between man and G-d.

A person must therefore strive to overcome these physical tendencies, to eliminate the barrier that precludes identifying with G-d, and his neshamah will then, by it's very essence, be attracted to it's Divine source. The scriptures state that the human neshamah is like the flame of a candle (Proverbs 20:27), and our ethicists explain this simile to mean that just as we when we hold a candle near a large flame, the flame of the candle is attracted to the greater flame, so is the neshamah attracted to it's Divine source, and seeks to be absorbed within it, something which could be achived if the barrier between it and the source was eliminated".

We can also see this concept being presented by Yeshua ben Yosef, Rabbeinu, in some of the apostolic writings of the first century, prior to the destruction of the second temple. It takes practice and a determined mind to enter this place...

We can enter it it, if we want...