Desejos
Os desejos revelam o que há no coração. A Bíblia nos ensina a purificar nossos desejos, submeter a carne ao espírito e buscar as coisas que são de cima.
Desejos da carne
A carne milita contra o espírito. O cristão é chamado a vigiar, resistir e não satisfazer os desejos da natureza pecaminosa.
But I say, let your halakhah be by the Ruach HaKodesh, and by no means will you carry out the ta’avot (lusts) of the basar.
For, Achim B’Moshiach, you were called for "zman Cheruteinu"; only use not the Cherut for a pretext for the basar, but, through ahavah (agape), minister to one another as avadim (servants).
Achim B’Moshiach, if indeed a man is overtaken in some averah, you ones with ruchniyus restore such a one in a spirit of anavah (meekness), watching out for yourself lest also you come under nisayon (temptation).
Stay awake and offer tefillos, lest you enter lidey nisayon. Indeed the ruach is willing but the basar is weak.
V’al tvi’einu lidey nisayon (And lead us not into temptation), ki im chaltzeinu min harah (but deliver us from evil).
Be shomer in zililut da’as (sober-mindedness). Your adversary HaSatan [Samma’el], prowls around like a roaring arye (lion), seeking whom to swallow.
For all that is in the Olam Hazeh, the ta’avah (lust) of the basar and the ta’avah of the eyes and the gaa’vah (pride) in the chashuve (prominence) of what one has in this life, oneʼs vital possessions, all this is not of HaAv but is of the Olam Hazeh.
And the Olam Hazeh is making its histalkus (passing away) and the ta’avah (lust) of it, but the one doing the ratzon Hashem has his maon lanetzakh (permanent dwelling place to remain for ever).
Therefore, put to death your evarim (members) in the Olam Hazeh: zenut (fornication), debauchery, sensuality, zimmah (licentiousness), and chamdanut (covetousness), which is avodah zarah (idolatry).
Purificar os desejos
Guarda o teu coração. Das profundezas do interior do homem saem os desejos — bons ou maus, conforme o coração.
I made a brit (covenant) with mine eyes;
how then look I upon a betulah?
Can one walk upon hot coals,
and his regel not be burned?
He craveth greedily kol hayom,
but the tzaddik giveth and spareth not.
Wilt thou let thine eynayim fly after that which is not?
For such [wealth] certainly sprouts kenafayim (wings);
they fly away as a nesher (eagle) toward Shomayim.
For the ahavas hakesef (love of money) is the shoresh (root) of kol hara’ot (all evils), which some, craving, were thereby led away from the emunah and pierced themselves with many machovim (sorrows).
"All things to me are proper!" But not all things are beneficial. "All things to me are proper!" But I will not be mastered by anything.
But, because of the acts of zenut, let each Ben Adam have his own Isha, and let each Isha have her own Ba’al (Husband).
No nissayon (temptation) has overtaken you, except that which is common to Bnei Adam, but, Hashem is ne’eman (faithful), who will not let you to be brought into nissayon beyond what you are able, but will make with the nissayon also the derech [Tzaddikim] as a way out for you to be able to endure.
Desejos santos
Como a corça deseja as correntes de água, minha alma suspira por ti, ó Deus. Os desejos do Espírito produzem vida e paz.
(For the one directing, Maskil, for the Bnei Korach)
Indeed, in the orakh of Thy mishpatim, Hashem,
have we waited for Thee;
our ta’avat nefesh (yearning of soul)
is for Thy Shem, and for the zekher (memory, remembrance) of Thee.
So Hashem has given us precious havtachot gedolot cf. 2:19 (great promises) that through these promises you might become [regenerate] deveykus participants with the life of the teva haelohi (divine nature), having escaped the [degenerate] Olam Hazehʼs lust engendered corruption.
You lust for something and you do not have it; you kill and you envy and you are not able to obtain. You get involved in machalokot (divisions of dissensions) and fights. You do not have because you fail to daven with your request.
However, let no one say, when he is tempted, "From Hashem I am being tempted," for Hashem cannot be tempted to crave ra’ah (evil), and He Himself trips up no one with nisayon (temptation).
What then shall we say? That the Gezetz is considered as chet (sin)? Chas v’shalom! Nevertheless, I would not have experienced chet (sin) except through the Gezetz; for I would not have known chamdanut (covetousness, greediness) if the Torah had not said, LO TACHMOD (Thou shalt not covet).
Let the marriage Chuppah have respect in the eyes of all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for those guilty of gilui arayot (sexual immorality) and no’afim (adulterers), Hashem will judge.
For where your otzar is, there also will be your lev.