CONNECTING TO GOD’S PALACE BY MEDITATING ON HIS HOLY NAMES
Yichud is the name of Jewish meditative Advanced Techniques in an expression of our neshamah as its truly supposed to be. It’s brought down in different sources that the neshamah goes through great suffering due to the fact that it has to come to this physical dimension.
The parable that we can think of to understand this is that of the daughter of a king. She’s forced to go and to live the most simple basic life of peasants missing the Palace of her father all the time. This daughter of the King will treasure anything she will find coming from the palace. She will take it and try to get the most out of it. She will try to get again the connection to the experiences that she had when she was in the palace.
When we are privileged to practice those meditations correctly, it gives comfort to the neshama. This is because this is something that the Neshama was experiencing when she was in the heavens by Hashem.
The chocolate cake example
Consider someone has an experience, which is very physical, like eating chocolate. There is a possibility to just enjoy the senses. That gets the neshama the pleasure. But there is a way to relate to the pleasure and bring it back to the source of the pleasure, which is Hashem. So if you are taking the pleasure and you are trying to get the most out of the experience, it can be anything that is related to this world, all the different kinds of different lusts and desires.
We are the vessels and the content is coming from Hashem. So if we are taking the advantage of the experiences that we have in this world to go back to the source of any experience of pleasure, then we can experience them in the physical Dimension or we can use it as a springboard to go higher to ascend.
This is the goal of Yichudim, of all the meditations: to be able to live our everyday life in a way that it everything will be related to Hashem.
This can happen if someone has pleasure chocolate or anything else. And while he is experiencing that, he is thinking about Hashem. For some people it looks as if the intention will derive from the pleasure. When we are experiencing only the physical pleasure then only the lowest the part of our self which is an affect that is related with the physical will have the experience of the pleasure...
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