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What happens when one part of you knows what is right, another part is overthinking everything, and another part simply wants what it wants?
In Lesson 18 of Kabbalah for Everyone, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath offers a simple, practical Kabbalah framework for understanding the G-dly Soul, Rational Soul, and Animal Soul: Truth. Plan. Power.
The G-dly Soul helps us identify what is true. The Rational Soul turns that truth into a realistic next step. The Animal Soul provides the passion, drive, stubbornness, and energy to actually do it.
The goal of spiritual growth is not to become less human or to wage permanent war against yourself. It is to teach the different parts of yourself how to work together. This class explores anger, anxiety, procrastination, jealousy, technology, relationships, spiritual growth, failure, and the practical art of turning natural human energy into something holy.
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Key Points
- The three souls do not need to become identical—they need to learn their proper roles.
- Truth: What is actually true here? What does my deepest G-dly self know?
- Plan: What is one wise, realistic next step?
- Power: What natural energy already inside me can help me take that step?
- Feelings contain information, but they do not always provide instruction.
- You can hear an emotion without handing it the steering wheel.
- The Rational Soul should be a translator of truth, not an attorney for every impulse.
- Spiritual growth often means giving your natural drives a better assignment.
- Stubbornness can become loyalty. Anger can become courage. Ambition can become contribution. Sensitivity can become compassion.
- The goal is not to destroy the “ox,” but to harness its strength.
- You do not need perfect motives before doing something good.
- Sometimes holiness is transformation; sometimes holiness is simply restraint.
- The 90-Second Inner Team Meeting: What is true? What is the next wise step? What power can help me do it?
- Growth is not about becoming less human. It is about becoming more integrated and more whole.
The School for Sensitive Souls is now open. This will be a much more intimate experience, and registration is intentionally limited to 18 participants. Register HERE https://www.kabbalah4everyone.com/checkout/sensitive-souls
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