Disembodiment of Physicality/ spiritual elevation/ trance
Spiritual ascension through detachment from materiality and the physical world. The 'striping off' of physical clothing.
("For at that hour they were all in the ranks of the prophets and were in need of the expansion of physicality and of the strengthening of intellectual power, but if they were to destroy their bodies in order to see" - faces are called as Tu, and so on: "And when Rabbi Chaim returned to the expansion of physicality, he also began to sing with his mouth, and his voice Like the sound of the violin! And then everyone understands the music, even the deaf, the fool, and the little one - Yal Peretz/ The roll of the music)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הִתְפַּשְּׁטוּת הַגַּשְׁמִיּוּת
Definition (Hebrew)
הִתְעַלּוּת רוּחָנִית תּוֹךְ הִתְנַתְּקוּת מֵהַחָמְרִיּוּת וְהָעוֹלָם הַגַּשְׁמִי. 'הַפְשָׁטַת' הַבְּגָדִים הַגַּשְׁמִיִּים.
("כִּי בְּאוֹתָהּ שָׁעָה הָיוּ כֻּלָּם בַּמַּדְרֵגוֹת הַנְּבִיאִים וְהָיוּ צְרִיכִים לְהִתְפַּשְּׁטוּת הַגַּשְׁמִיּוּת וּלְהַגְבִּיר כֹּחַ הַשִּׂכְלִי מְאֹד, אֲבָל אִם יַהַרְסוּ לְהִתְקָרֵב גּוּפָם בִּשְׁבִיל לִרְאוֹת"- פָּנִים יָפוֹת שְׁמוֹת כ טוּ, וְכֵן:"וּכְשֶׁבָּא ר' חַיִּים'ל לְהִתְפַּשְּׁטוּת הַגַּשְׁמִיּוּת, הוּא מַתְחִיל גַּם לְזַמֵּר בַּפֶּה, וְקוֹלוֹ כְּקוֹל הַכִּנּוֹר! וְאָז הַכֹּל מְבִינִים אֶת הַנִּגּוּן, וַאֲפִלּוּ חֶרֶשׁ, שׁוֹטֶה וְקָטָן- י"ל פֶּרֶץ/ גִּלְגּוּלוֹ שֶׁל נִגּוּן)