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Emuna originates from the heavenly sphere where the upper lights and creative forces originate. Our soul was carved from this lofty place and directly experienced immense G-dly light. The desire to connect back to this light is the only wish known to the soul; it is the purpose of her existence.
The neshama ‘remembers’ the delight she once knew. However when the soul enters the body her yearning gets mixed up with the body’s lowly desires and gets misplaced and overridden by the body’s needs. It is so easy to forget since the voice of the soul is distant and quiet and the sound of the body is loud and overpowering. Yet it is vital to connect the two and have them work in sync to fulfill their joint mission.
Emuna is that bridge that connects body and soul; it is the knowledge that worldly physical experiences are rooted in Heaven and intended to build the soul. Seeing worldly happenings through the eyes of the soul, through emuna eyes, creates an entirely new reality, a new pair of lenses.
If we were to see the spiritual core in every living thing physical reality would appear as nothingness. The physical world’s existence is maintained by spiritual forces and exists as a result of them. The ultimate reward awaits the soul that bounds herself to Hashem through thought, speech and action by breaking the walls of physicality and illusion and bringing her back to her days of old before she left the Heavenly realms.
