Menachem Bluming can find you a kabbalist who can cure anxiety!


I know a kabbalist who can facilitate in your recovery. His name is Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. He lived nearly two thousand years ago, but his light still shines today.

In his esoteric masterpiece, the Zohar, he has a thought and if you internalize it, it may bring you the strength you need. He writes:

“During the Friday evening prayers, as Shabbos enters, the energy of the world ascends into the supernal area, and all negativity and harshness is sliced away. All forces of anger and conflict flee and vanish. No foreign power reigns, the world basks in a heavenly light, which shines on the holy people down here, who are crowned with fresh souls.”

Rabbi Shimon is describing the spiritual shift that happens as we usher in the Shabbos. We are not just desisting from work, we are lifting ourselves to a higher plane, a place where there is only goodness and light and holiness, where our soul is free from the torments of the mundane world, and where we are given a fresh burst of soul energy.

The Friday evening service is our launch pad for this journey. The prayers and songs transport us to this space, inside of us, of deep joy. We actually quote the above passage while praying. If you close your eyes and allow yourself to be taken by the experience, you may actually feel yourself be elevated to this blissful place.

There are no magical solutions. Continue your therapy, and add to it the spiritual remedy of Shabbos. Both will take work. But you can reach the finish line. You are one of those holy people who can be crowned with a fresh soul, each week.

Menachem Mendel Bluming, Rabbi Moss based on Zohar II 135b, Kegavna from Siddur Friday night service

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