Rabbi Akiva

We have the story about Rabbi Akiva who was in a boat. The boat broke and everyone drowned except for him. He survived. Then when they asked him how did you survive he said, “I grabbed a big plank that was left from the boat and I sat on it and each time a wave came, I would lower my head, the wave would wash over me and that's how I ended up getting to shore.” Why do our sages tell us about this? Because they want to tell us that in this way we can, in fact, go through all the stages of the correction. We need to accept that anything that comes, comes from the Creator, we have no strength to deal with or overcome what's coming. Rather anything and everything that comes to us is there only so we would agree with what the Creator has arranged. And in this agreement, we get to the next degree which is connection, even adhesion. That is indeed the purpose of creation. So subjugation, then agreement, later on adhesion, there are other stages but those are the important ones. Lesson on the topic of "Advance By Overcoming"| Lesson 4|Jun 17, 2021 | Around minute 23