AssiyahSignp. 60.7

Enjoy Body-ing: Assiyah

Assiyah as the somatic impulse that gives everything mass and form.

Reb David’s words, typed

Assiyah: The World of Somatization.
You are a somatic impulse. Perform and channel as Divine body. You are always embodying in mass and form all mental and emotional fields. You give everything a physical tracing; nothing remains ethereal or intangible. Everything takes up space and increases storage needs. You give mass and embodiment to all subtle energies.

Enjoy
Body-ing

Reb David’s note

Although the phrase "Body-ing" is extremely awkward, I chose it over 'acting' or 'doing' since I understand Assiyah to be a world of sensing and self-shaping which go beyond conscious acting. Embodying is close but suggests a distance between the embodier and the embodied. Somatizing is too distant from experience. By process of elimination, we are left with . . . a neologism, a new word that lacks the problems of other words and highlights for me just how subtle the world of Assiyah really is.
On p. 60.7 · his notes, p. 191

Machine-read from his typed notes; the original page is linked.

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Assiyah עשיה

The world of Action: body and the physical. In the morning service, the morning blessings and warm-ups.

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