Being Lifted Up"When a Hasid directs the emotion in the prayer, what happens then?" I asked. "Then a person reaches a certain level of spiritual ecstasy and opens himself up spiritually. He has thought about godliness; he has thought about spirituality; he has thought about the things that God accomplished in the world; then he focuses his prayer on the greatness of God, the spirituality of God. Then he comes out of the prayer with a tremendous feeling of upliftedness," the Rabbi explained. "Could you give me some examples of states or characteristics which occur in this ecstasy and upliftedness?" "Characteristics…." He thought a moment. "I think, mainly, there is an awe-ness of God. I think it is a realization by a person of what is important and what is secondary. You look around the world..." he reached for words. |
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