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Attaining
Pleasure
––––––––––––––––––––––––––– RABBI ISRAEL CHAIT — Transcribed by a student
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ne should leave the pleasures because they are false. Desire attaches itself to a fantasy; it is a phantom of something else that one desires. [The pleasure is not the true object one seeks.] Man is different from an animal. An animal desires the very thing it seeks; there is no fantasy or phantom. But when man desires something, he does not want it for its own sake. The desired object is a substitute for something in his past, which is the true object of his desire. Man’s past is his infantile state, where the child is like an animal as his desire is for the very object he seeks. People recognize that children are very happy [because they are fully satisfied when they obtain their desires]. (CONT. ON NEXT PAGE)
