When one's connections with his friends are superficial, with superficial speech and the enjoyment of brilliant comments, then the heart cries out that it feels disconnected; when will it be able to feel a heart-to-heart connection? The mind can generate a certain intellectual pleasure, but it is not truly one with the person.
Consequently, when two people have an intellectual connection, they are not connected to the person who is intelligent, but to the intelligence itself. Only a heart-to-heart connection is a true interpersonal connection; a connection to the essence of the person. For this reason Chassidic works teach that the inner heart is higher than the intellect (even though the mind can rule over the heart, the inner heart is greater). When a person engages in Hisbodidus (individual contemplation before Hashem) he would like not to be engaged in a superficial relationship with Hashem, but with a deep inner, heart-based connection.
Initially as he discusses lowly matters he feels that he has not yet reached the true level of closeness that he craves - to be with Hashem and next to him with a true heartfelt connection.
Consequently, when two people have an intellectual connection, they are not connected to the person who is intelligent, but to the intelligence itself. Only a heart-to-heart connection is a true interpersonal connection; a connection to the essence of the person. For this reason Chassidic works teach that the inner heart is higher than the intellect (even though the mind can rule over the heart, the inner heart is greater). When a person engages in Hisbodidus (individual contemplation before Hashem) he would like not to be engaged in a superficial relationship with Hashem, but with a deep inner, heart-based connection.
Initially as he discusses lowly matters he feels that he has not yet reached the true level of closeness that he craves - to be with Hashem and next to him with a true heartfelt connection.
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