<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 13, 2008 4:33 PM, <a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a> <<a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br></div>But the niggun is a human creation, and the Alps are a Divine creation. To me, that is gigantic distinction.</blockquote><div>We are talking about what inspires an individual<br><br><br><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> If a drunk has booze it is a physical pleasure. if a ehrlihcer
<br>> hassid has a schnappes it is a spiritual event. Simple - no?<br><br></div>No. Not unless that schnappes helped that hassid to some sort of chiddush in learning, or in dveykus, or whatever.</blockquote><div><br>For Hassidim alcohol reduces the inhibitrions of approaching HKBH call that dveikus if you will but I would simply say imbibing spirits is inspiring and spiritual for those who are so inclinded
<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Which I freely admit that alcohol *can* help do. But the drinking alone is *not* a spiritual event. And woe to those who think it is.
</blockquote><div><br>the points is the attitude with which preceeds the process, not the process itself. I'm not sure if you are getting my point here. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Akiva Miller<br>_</blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/
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