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Bread of Shame

The basic notion of shame in Hebrew, is the description of the condition that activates the power of return, SHUVA.

BUSHA, shame, relates to what is in the meaning of the letter BEIT in Hebrew. It suggests that BUSHA is the beginning of the ability to return to the form we were created as, where the Creator can bestow light and His will. We will receive it in the same way as His intention. We will feel it as good.

SHAME, in Hebrew, comes from the power that is holding TESHUVA, which is BINA, the ability to overcome a reality of extension.

NEHAMA DE KISUFA. NEHAMA is that which connects us. On the most basic level, we are able connect to the purpose of our existence and life. But it is a specific connection. Something that awakens in us the longing, KISUFA is a bread of longing. When that kind of connection is awakened in us, when BINA extends herself to MALCHUT, we call it 'the awakening of the point in the heart'.