<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Aspaqlaria</title>
</head>
<body>
<style type="text/css">
h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;}
div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul {
list-style-type:square;
padding-left:1em;
}
div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote {
padding-left:6px;
border-left: 6px solid #dadada;
margin-left:1em;
}
div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li {
margin-bottom:1em;
margin-left:1em;
}
table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active {
color:#000099;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration:none;
}
img {border:none;}
</style>
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;">
<table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%">
<tr>
<td width="99%" style="vertical-align:top">
<h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;">
<a style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.aishdas.org/asp" title="(http://www.aishdas.org/asp)">Aspaqlaria</a>
</h1>
</td><td width="1%"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table id="itemcontentlist" style="clear:both;padding-top:.5em;border-top:1px solid #999;">
<tr>
<td style=" margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;">
<p xmlns="" style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;line-height:115%;">
<a style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aspaqlaria/~3/371319100/three-desires.shtml">Three Desires</a>
</p>
<p style="font-size:12px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;">
<span>Posted:</span> 21 Aug 2008 05:18 PM CDT</p>
<div style="margin:0;font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;"><p>In the last entry, I quoted part of Even Sheleimah, 2:1, by the Vilna Gaon. The full paragraph reads:</p>
<blockquote><p>The sum of all evil <em>middos</em> are <em>ka’as</em>[1] (anger), <em>ta’avah</em> (desire), and <em>ga’avah</em>[2] (egotism), which are “<em>haqin’ah vehata’avah vehakavod</em> — jealousy, desire and honor”.[3] Each includes two [parts]. Of <em>ka’as</em>: <em>ra</em> (evil) and <em>mirma</em> (duplicity). <em>Ra</em> is revealed, and <em>mirmah</em> is “<em>echad bepeh ve’echad beleiv</em> — one thing in the mouth, and one thing in the heart”.[4,5] <em>Ta’avah</em>: <em>ta’avah</em> and <em>chemdah</em> (longing): <em>Ta’avah </em>is [for] the pleasure of the body itself, such as eating, drinking, and the like. And <em>chemdah</em> is like [for] silver/money, gold, clothing and houses. In <em>ga’avah</em> [the two subspecies are] <em>gei’ah</em> (conceit) and <em>ga’on</em> (snobbery). <em>Gei’ah</em> is in the heart and <em>ga’on</em> is the desire to rule over others.</p>
<p>All this is included in the tefillah of “<em>E-lokai netzor leshoni <strong>meira</strong> usfasi midabeir <strong>mirmah</strong></em>.”[6] “<em>Velimkalilai nafshi sidom</em> — and may my soul be silent to those who curse me” is against <em>ga’avah</em>. “<em>Venafshi ke’afar lakol tihyeh</em> — and may my soul be like dust before everyone” is against <em>ga’on</em>. “<em>Pesach libi biSorasecha</em> — open my heart with your Torah” is the opposite of <em>ta’avah</em>, which wants to sit in his home in <em>menuchah</em> (rest) to fulfill his <em>ta’avos</em>, and also for Torah he needs to sit in <em>menuchah.</em> And they say in the <em>medrash</em> [7], “Before the person prays for Torah ideas that they should enter his innards, he should pray that food and drink shouldn’t enter his innards.” “<em>Uvmitzvosecha tirdof nafshi</em> — and my soul chase after your <em>mitzvos</em>” is the opposite of the people of <em>chemdah</em>, because it is their way to constantly run ahead, “for a person doesn’t die with [even] half of his <em>ta’avah</em> in hand.[8]“[9]</p>
<p><strong>Footnotes:</strong><br />
1- Nedarim 22a, 22b; Pesachim 66b, 113b<br />
2- Sotah 4b, 5a; Sanhedrin 98a; Avos 4:2<br />
3- Avos 4:21<br />
4- Michlei 4:24<br />
5- Pesachim 113b; Bava Metziah 49b<br />
6- Beracho 17a<br />
7- Yalkum Shim’oni 830<br />
8- Koheles Raba 1:13<br />
9- C.f. Bei’ur haGr”a Mishlei 1:11; 2:12; 4:24; 7:5; 12:25; 23:27; 24:11; 30:10</p></blockquote>
<p>Even Sheleimah 2:6:</p>
<blockquote><p>Someone who is drawn after the <em>ta’avah </em>[physical desires] also loses his good <em>middos</em> that was in his nature by birth [and these are called <em>begadim</em> -- clothes]. And one who is drawn after the <em>chemdah</em> [desire for wealth and power] loses the good <em>middos </em>that he acclimated himself in from his youth [and are called <em>regalim</em> -- as in <em>hergeil</em>, habit]. Because he doesn’t have opportunity to guide himself because of his business. All the more so he won’t break his <em>middos</em> to begin with.[22]</p>
<p><strong>Footnote:</strong></p>
<p>22- See Bei’ur haGr”a Mishlei 6:27,28</p></blockquote>
<p>This dichotomy makes sense. <em>Ta’avos</em> are innate. <em>Ta’avah</em> operates on a biological level, and therefore occludes his better natural predisposition. A love of wealth and property has to be learned. <em>Chemdah</em> is for things we learn to value, so it runs counter to other learned behaviors.</p>
<p>On Mishlei 4:24, the Vilna Gaon writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>I already wrote that there are two kinds of <em>middos,</em> which are those that are the <em>middos</em> which are born with him by nature, and those that he acclimated himself to. Those that were born with him are called “<em>derakhav</em>” [above called "<em>begadav</em>" -micha], for they are his derekh from the beginning of his creation. Those that he acclimated himself to are called <em>regel</em>, because he acclimated (hirgil) to them.</p>
<p>To those he acclimated to, he must guard and straighten them a lot. When he guards them, then they which were in his nature, they will of course be guarded. This is “<em>paleis ma’gal raglecha</em> - straighten the cycles of your feet”. Those which he became used to he needs to straighten and to pass little by little from the bad <em>middos</em>, like a <em>peles</em>, and not to grab right away the other extreme. Until he habituates himself and it will be to him like nature. (And it says “<em>ma’gal</em>” (cycle) because to those [<em>middos</em>] that he acclimated himself to he has to go around and revolve…)</p>
<p>“<em>Vekhol derachecha yikonu </em>– and all your paths will be established” of course those <em>middos</em> that are his derekh since birth are established (<em>yikonu</em>), from the term of “kan ubasis”. If you don’t guard those [middos that are] from habit, even “<em>derachav</em>” won’t be established. For <em>middos</em> are like a string of pearls — if you make a knot at the end, then all are guarded, and if not, all are lost. So too are the <em>middos</em>. Therefore [the verse] says that if one straightens the circuit of his feet (<em>raglav</em>), then his ways (<em>derachav</em>) will be set.</p></blockquote>
<p>As we saw, he relates chemdah to raglecha, and <em>ta’vah</em> to <em>derakhekha</em>; longing for power relates to habit, and physical desire to inborn makeup. Therefore it would appear that <em>chemdah </em>needs to be dealt with first, or else <em>ta’avah</em> too will fall apart.</p>
<p>(BTW, this <em>pasuq </em>in Mishlei just cries for <em>hispa’alus</em>.)</p>
<p>The Maharal, commenting on the same <em>mishnah </em>in Avos as my original quote from Even Sheleimah (4:21):</p>
<blockquote><p>The Rambam z”l writes in his introduction to this tractate. Over there the head doctor (i.e. the Rambam) starts his book [with the idea] that there are three souls: <em>tiv’is</em> (natural), <em>chiyonis</em> (living), <em>nafshis </em>(spiritual) — as is explained above in ch. “Rebbe Omeir”. And he za”l writes that it isn’t so that the person has three souls, rather the soul is one, only it has separate abilities. He explains the idea of these three abilities (potentialities — <em>kochos</em>):</p>
<p><em>Koach tiv’i</em> (the natural potential): this is the potential which can receive <em>hazanah </em>(readiness?)… It is certain that this brings the desire for sexual license, that this is through excesses of nature that this <em>koach </em>operates. All <em>koach </em>of <em>ta’avah </em>is from the <em>koach </em>that is called <em>koach tiv’i</em>. …</p>
<p>The second <em>koach </em>is the <em>koach hachiyoni</em>, from which there is life. Through this <em>koach </em>a person travels from place to place, and from it comes revenge, jealousy and hatred….</p>
<p>The third is <em>koach nafshi</em>. From this <em>koach </em>will come many <em>kochos</em>, like the <em>kochos </em>of the 5 senses, the <em>koach </em>of thought and imagination, memory and insight.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>… According to this division they said “<em>haqin’ah, hata’avah vehakavod</em> take a person out of the world.” For the soul has these three potentialities as we explained above. If one leaves the proper amount in these three <em>kochos </em>he leaves the world, for a person is only within the world via these three <em>kochos</em>.</p>
<p>For a person is in the world via <em>koach hanafshi</em>, if he exceeds in this <em>koach </em>from the proper amount, he turns toward the negative. For a person’s soul has a limit in all things, and if he exceeds the limit in excess he is turning to the negative…. Therefore he says that <em>qin’ah </em>which comes from <em>koach nafshi</em>… and <em>qin’ah</em> is an extended action of the <em>nefesh </em>– for why should a person be jealous for something that isn’t his? — therefore <em>qin’ah</em> is an extra action and therefore turns for the person into negative and deficiency.</p>
<p>Similarly, <em>ta’avah </em>which is from <em>koach hativ’i</em>, for he desires for something which a person doesn’t need. Therefore this thing too is an excess, for this <em>koach hativ’i </em>left the border which is proper for it, and therefore will reach him as a negative….</p>
<p>And the <em>kavod </em>is for the <em>koach hasikhli</em>, for the level of this <em>koach </em>is what wants the <em>kavod</em>. For it is certainly worthy of <em>kavod</em>, and it says (Mishlei 3:35) “<em>Kavod chachamim yinchalu</em>.” Because kavod is something spiritual and isn’t something physical….</p></blockquote>
<p>(BTW, note that anger is related to <em>koach hanafshi/hasikhli</em>, the spiritual layer, and “whomever gets angry, it is as though they served idols.”)</p>
<p>Note that the Maharal considers these flaws to be excesses. Implied is that there are flaws that are deficiencies, but they aren’t listed here.</p>
<p>On an earlier mishnah (1:2) the Maharal also discusses the three items in terms of three aspects of the soul.</p>
<p>He three pillars upon which the world stands as being about the three classes of relationship that a person is capable of: with HKBH (<em>avodah</em> - service [of G-d]), with other people (<em>gemilus chassadim </em>- supporting others through kindnesses) and with oneself (Torah). Each relationship is enabled by a different world in which a person lives. As the Maharal writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Therefore, the g-dly Tanna writes that one pillar that the universe stands upon is the Torah, for the pillar completes man so that he can be a finished creation with respect to himself.</p>
<p>After that he says “<em>on avodah</em>“…. For from this man can be thought complete and good toward He Who created him - by serving Him…. With regard to the third, it is necessary for man to be complete and good with others, and that is through gemillus chassadim.</p>
<p>You also must understand that these three pillars parallel three things in each man: the mind, the living soul, and the body. None of them have existence without G-d. The existence of the soul is when it comes close to Hashem by serving Him…. From the perspective of the mind, the man gets his existence through Torah, for it is through the Torah that man attaches himself to G-d. To the body, man gets his existence through gemillus chassadim for the body has no closeness or attachment to Hashem, just that Hashem is kind to all. When man performs kindness G-d is kind to him, and so gives him existence.</p></blockquote>
<p>He continues to explain that that if existence is based on three principles, then any act which takes an ax to one of these pillars should not be committed even under pain of death, existence itself would have a lower priority. Idol worship is obviously the antonym of <em>avodah</em>. Murder is the ultimate denial of <em>chessed</em>. The Maharal explains the link between Torah and sexual immorality:</p>
<blockquote><p>The glory of the Torah is that it is separated from the physical entirely. There is nothing that can separate man from the physical but the Torah of thought. The opposite is sexual immorality, which follows the physical [<em>chomer</em>] until one is thought of like an animal or donkey [<em>chamor</em>], it is a creature of its flesh’s desires, in all things physical.</p></blockquote>
<p>So the Maharal too finds three pairs of <em>yitzrei hara</em>. However, whereas the Gr”a finds active-vs-thought pairs, the Maharal implies pairs of excess-vs-deficiency. Also it appears that an excess of one feeds a deficiency of the other. An excess of <em>koach tiv’i</em> feeds the same <em>ta’avah</em> as a deficiency of Torah study — <em>ko’ach sichli</em>.</p>
<p>The association between <em>yitzrei hara</em> and the three <em>yeihareig vi’al ya’avor </em>(the three sins one must die rather than commit) is also suggested by the <em>aggadita </em>(Yoma 69b, Sanhedrin 64a) which discusses the imprisonment of the <em>yeitzer hara </em>for idolatry followed by the attempted imprisonment of that for sexuality. The attempt fails because the <em>yeitzer hara </em>is associated with sexual reproduction in general. Just as the yeitzer hara for idolatry is described as a fiery lion that emerges from the Holy of Holies — the destructive and constructive uses are one.</p>
<p>The Maharsha possibly suggests a different taxonomy on the well-known <em>aggadita </em>on Shabbos 30b-31a:</p>
<blockquote><p>Our rabbis taught: A man should always be patient like Hillel, and not impatient like Shammai. It once happened that two men [31a] made a bet with each other, saying, “Whoever goes and makes Hillel angry shall receive 400 <em>zuz</em>.” Said one, “I will go and anger him.”</p>
<p>That day was <em>erev Shabbos</em>, and Hillel was washing his head. [The man] went, passed by the door of his house, and called out, “Who here is Hillel? Who here is Hillel?” [Hillel] wrapped on [his cloak] and went out to him. He said to him, “My son, what do you require?” He said to [Hillel], “I have a question to ask.” [Hillel] said to him, “Ask, my son, ask.”</p>
<p>“Why are the heads of the Babylonians round?” He said to him, “My son, you have asked a great question. It is because they have no skillful midwives.”</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Maharsha</span>: There is a question in this, since this question isn’t Torah ideas, just in things of the world, even though Hillel was patient he shouldn’t have answered these question, as Shelomo says about this, “<em>al ta’an kesil ke’avloso</em> — do not answer a fool according to his folly”. It therefore appears that we should say that because of his patience, Hillel never thought the man came to irritate him with these questions. Rather, [he assumed] that he was hinting to him associations with <em>divrei Torah</em>, and that with these three questions, he was thinking of the three evil <em>middos</em> that are <em>ru’ach gavoha, ayin ra’ah and nefesh rechava</em> — which are mentioned as those of students of Bilaam.</p>
<p>Which is, that which he asked, “Why are the heads of…” [Hillel assumed] he was thinking about the evil <em>middah</em> of <em>ru’ach rechavah</em> (literally: “wide” willed). According to what it says at the end of the ch. “Hayashein”, … Rashi explains that they lord over and are <em>misga’im</em> over their brethren. [Note the word "<em>misga'im</em>", in similarity to the Vilna Gaon (above). -MB]</p>
<p>What he meant was: That in Bavel their head wealthy people revolve, that the wheel returns them back down from their property. Why is it? Because of what sin? And Hillel answered him on this via hint that is because they don’t have easy lives, that is, … that <em>gasos haru’ach </em>is strong in them. For who ever has <em>ga’avah </em>is insane.</p>
<p>This evil middah is the one they have in Bavel as it says in ch. “Zeh Borear” that “<em>chanufah and gasat haru’ach yardu leBavel</em> — flattery and haughtiness went down to Bavel”….</p></blockquote>
<p>[The man] departed, waited an hour, returned and said, “Who here is Hillel? Who here is Hillel?” [Hillel] wrapped on [his cloak] and went out to him. He said to him, “My son, what do you require?” He said to [Hillel], “I have a question to ask.” [Hillel] said to him, “Ask, my son, ask.”</p>
<p>“Why are the eyes of the Palmyrieans bleared?” He said to him, “My son, you have asked a great question. It is because they live amoung sandy places.”</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Maharsha</span>: Hillel thought that he was thinking about the second evil <em>middah </em>of <em>ayin hara</em> (literally: bad eyes). According to what it says in ch. “Cheilek”, the generation of the flood were only punished for <em>gilgul ha’ayin</em> (literally: eye rolling), and Rashi explains that they would lift their eyes. In a number of places, sexual license is euphamized with a term about eyes. As it says by Shimshon, that he followed his eyes… And [Hillel] replied to him because they live amoung the “<em>cholos</em>“, from the root “<em>chol</em>“, that they have no sanctity nor borders around eroticism as they have among the well-bred of Israel.</p></blockquote>
<p>[The man again] departed, waited an hour, returned and said, “Who here is Hillel? Who here is Hillel?” [Hillel] wrapped on [his cloak] and went out to him. He said to him, “My son, what do you require?” He said to [Hillel], “I have a question to ask.” [Hillel] said to him, “Ask, my son, ask.” “Why are the feet of the Africans (Cathartans?) wide?”</p>
<p>“My son, you have asked a great question,” replied he. “It is because they live in watery marshes.”</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Maharsha</span>: Hillel thought that he was thinking about the third evil middah which is <em>nefesh rechavah </em>(literally: wide soul), to gather a lot of money. “Wide feet” as they say about what is written “‘all that they stood which is in their feet’ — this is money, which a person stands on his feet”. And he replied [that it is] because they live in betza’im, a hint to the idea that they live among nations that love betza and money. For the children of Afriki are among the children of Canaan who turned away from Eretz Yisrael. As it says in the beginning of ch. “Cheilek” … about Canaan that he commanded his sons to love theft and betza.</p></blockquote>
<p>He said to [Hillel], “I have many questions to ask, but I am afraid that you may become angry.” [Hillel] wrapped his cloak, sat before him and he said to him, “Ask all the questions you have to ask.” He said to him, “Are you the Hillel who is called the nasi of Israel?”</p>
<p>He said to him, “Yes.”</p>
<p>[The man] said to Hillel, “If that is you, may there not be many like you in Israel.”</p>
<p>He said to him, “My son, why?”</p>
<p>[The man] said to [Hillel], “Because of you, I have lost 400 <em>zuz</em>!”</p>
<p>He said to him, “Be careful of your ruach! Hillel is worth it that you should lose 400 <em>zuz </em>because of him, and even another 400 zuz, yet Hillel will not lose his temper.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In sum, the Vilna Gaon speaks of the three evil <em>middos</em> that take a person from the world:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>QIn’ah = Ka’as</em> - anger, which is either
<ul>
<li>suppressed and become <em>mirmah</em> (duplicity) or</li>
<li>expressed and becomes <em>ra</em> (destructive evil).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><em>Ta’avah</em> - desire, either
<ul>
<li>for pleasures, which is lazy and wants immediate satisfaction, or</li>
<li>for money and power (<em>chemdah</em>) which one pursues actively.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><em>Ga’avah = Kavod</em> - honor, either
<ul>
<li>expressed to others as snobbiness or</li>
<li>a conceit one fosters within oneself.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The Maharal works with a similar three, however to him they represent two different things. In terms of excess of longing for each world in which we live:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Qin’ah</em> <em>– </em>jealousy is wanting more than our place, not just walking the path to <em>shmayim</em>.</li>
<li><em>Ta’avah — </em>too much longing for the pleasures of this world: food, sex, another hour’s sleep, etc…</li>
<li><em>Kavod </em> — too much interest in the self yields egotism</li>
</ul>
<p>In terms of deficiencies to how we relate those we encounter in each world:</p>
<ul>
<li>Idolatry - the obvious antithesis of serving Hashem</li>
<li>Murder<em> </em>– the obvious antithesis of being kind to the other people we encounter in this world.</li>
<li>Sexual immorality<em> — </em>here it’s not being described as too much desire for this world, but too little interest in refining oneself, the ultimate goal of Torah and the universe between our ears. After all, when looking at our actions’ impacts on others, the only ones harmed by consentual sex is the participants themselves.</li>
</ul>
<p>(I must confess I find the Maharal’s model harder to understand how they fit than the other two.)</p>
<p>Last, the Maharsha’s three <em>middos ra’os </em>are those of Bil’am:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Ruach gavoha</em> / <em>gasas ruach</em> — ego and ruling over others. This seems pretty similar to the Gr”a’s understanding of “<em>ga’avah</em>“, in particular “<em>ga’on</em>“, even down to terms each use.</li>
<li><em>Ayin hara</em> — looking and chasing after things that aren’t theirs. Again, sounds much like <em>ta’avah</em> as described by the Gaon.</li>
<li><em>Nefesh rechavah</em> - the pursuit of wealth, what the Gaon called <em>chemdah</em>.</li>
</ul>
<p>It is important to note how all consider the basic human condition to come in threes, even if they don’t agree what the three are. The same is true of Freud’s Id-Ego-Super Ego, Adler’s Child-Adult-Parent, etc… Why?</p>
<p>When the alarm goes off, a person is conflicted. We can group his calls into two. One side realizes he has important things to accomplish that day, he has to get to shul, not be too late to his job, etc… The other just wants to hit the snooze button and get more sleep. Or, in choosing whether or not to sin, the <em>yeitzer hatov</em> says one thing, the <em>yeitzer hara</em> is recommending another. A movie or television show has a person making a decision, and they have a little image of him dressed as an angel on one shoulder, and another dressed as a devil on the other.</p>
<p>But you notice in those pictures, there are always three images of the person — the two angels, and the person himself. When I hear opposing callings from each <em>yeitzer</em>, or my body wants one thing and my sense of duty says another, there is always an “I” doing the hearing who has to decide between them. In the courtroom of my mind, there is a lawyer arguing each side, and a judge.</p>
<p>Decision making inherently conjures up three entities. And being a person is all about freedom of will.</p>
<p>In future posts I’ll have much more to say about this tripartite nature of man. In fact, it’s surprising I haven’t gone very far on this topic before now.</p><div class="feedflare">
<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Aspaqlaria?a=ctWmBK"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Aspaqlaria?i=ctWmBK" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Aspaqlaria?a=r2jQ8K"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Aspaqlaria?i=r2jQ8K" border="0"></img></a>
</div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table id="footer" style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://www.aishdas.org/asp">Aspaqlaria</a>
<br>To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailunsub?id=4187981&key=cQD876uioH">unsubscribe now</a>.</td><td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email Delivery powered by FeedBurner</td>
</tr>
<tr xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Inbox too full? <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Aspaqlaria"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" style="vertical-align:middle" alt="(feed)"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Aspaqlaria">Subscribe</a> to the feed version of Aspaqlaria in a feed reader.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;" colspan="2">If you prefer to unsubscribe via postal mail, write to: Aspaqlaria, c/o FeedBurner, 20 W Kinzie, 9th Floor, Chicago IL USA 60610</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>