A jewish male is obligated to guard his brit (that is what is meant by tikun habrit) = to ensure he does not look, think or do anything with regards to women which is not within the halacha and realm of holiness.

 

Any pgam habrit (behaviour not according to halacha) results in a pgam hadaat - a 'faulty' mind. Such a person, when he learns Torah, the torah will be a poison for him.

 

If this person wants to make teshuva and stops the negative behaviour he may learn torah provided that he is aware that he has a 'faulty' mind and will not question the Torah. If he comes across something that seems strange to him, he will realize that he doesn't understand things properly because of the state of his mind not because there is something wrong with the Torah. 

 

If the person has tikun habrit, then the light will remain the way it is Above - since the kli (vessel) will not change it.

 

The letter dalet is different to the letter resh by just a little nekudah (point) that sticks out of the roof of the letter dalet on the right. That little nekudah is the brit. If the brit is not metukan (ie if one has sinned with his brit), then that nekudah falls and so the dalet from the word 'echad' (Hashem is One) becomes a resh and we are left with the word 'acher' (which means 'other' ie. other services ie. avoda zara - idol worshipping). Avoda zara was always tied in with pgam habrit.

 

This Torah also says that the doctors would treat insanity by castration. Of course they didn't know why that seemed to be the only cure. They didn't know that pgam habrit causes insanity. So when psychologists tell people to do as they please (pgam habrit) insinuating that that will cure theml, they are actually making them more ill.

 

Ashreinu that we have the torah and the tzaddikim who know how to cure us.

 

The only way a person who is not shalem with his brit, but is sincere about making teshuva, can learn torah and not be harmed is if when he comes to a part he doesn't understand he doesn't say there's something wrong with Torah. Rather he realizes that it is his daat is pagum (blemished) and the problem is with him.

 

We see that Moshe took us out of Egypt yet the Torah says over and over again "I am your G-d that took you out of Egypt'. It's not a contradiction is it?

 

Rabenu said that Mashiach will come from his descendants. Both his mother and his father come from David haMelech.

 

The important thing is for us to serve Hashem with sincerity, with humility, with constant prayer and attachment to Him and to his tzaddikim.

 

A jew has a natural belief in G-d. It is in his genes from Avraham Avinu. And whilst a non-jew easily gets angry with G-d, a jew usually accepts the difficulties with humility, knowing that G-d knows what He is doing and that one doesn't deserve any better anyway. In fact, according to our sins we should basically not be alive! Only in Hashem's kindness, He waits till we wake up and make teshuva.

 

Rabenu speaks of changing our hitlahavut (passion) for bad to hitlahavut for good. From ahavot nefulot (the love of anything outsiide Hashem) to ahavot kedoshot. From yirot nefulot (fearing anything  outside Hashem) to only fearing Hashem. Everything has a 'leumat zeh'. The likutei tefillot is also full of it. Asking Hashem to change our passions from left to right!

 

Indeed we have to have the left for bechira to be possible.

The person who wants spirituality without making the vessels (mitzvot) for it will be 'consumed'.

 

One can only come to 'daat' when one marries the material with the spiritual. The mitzvot are exactly that. So either road that isn't this one leads to the medameh taking over. Whether you are medameh that you are a malach or mickey mouse, makes no difference. They are both states you don't want.

 

As the saying goes.

 

If you have daat, you lack nothing

If you have everything except daat, you have nothing