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Hey Enoon,

For the created being to truly be fulfilled and not with corporeal pleasures which are received in order to receive (which this process will bring us to despair from this process of reception for ourselves) it needs to receive the abundance the Creator created for the creature to receive specifically from Him. The paradox is that our nature is to receive but it’s seemingly “giving” that we need to partake it – the quality of the Creator. We just need to use our will to receive with an intention to bestow which makes us similar to the Creator in quality. This is the Kli, the vessel in which we receive the abundance and not reception itself.

Thanks!

Hey Brad,

This is referring to spiritual connections, Partzufim, connections between them, the desires each one has – for reception or for bestowal etc., it’s not talking about people who married other people or one brother who killed another.

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Hey Michael,

Everyone has their own path, we can’t really know what a person needs as far as what his soul needs to develop. Of course, we could say there were “choices” along the way that if they were correct, it would have only strengthened but when the opportunity passes, there are only so many of them before eventually a person can find the environment on the outside is stronger than the environment they built for themselves. We should always be worried that the Creator would take this opportunity from us, and this should be used to our advantage to find the strength to adhere to the good environment whenever we can.

There are many stages in the period of preparation. A person doesn’t even know where they are, truly, at first. It seems clear, but later it’s shown to us the true magnitude of the thing we have in our hands. We’re essentially just “doing what we’re” told in the beginning until we can start building a sense for it. This comes gradually, and along the way we’re always receiving all kinds of “tastes” of what it is, which then pass and we continue on until the next bit that becomes revealed.

Kabbalists call this, “anything but leave.” A rule a person puts for themselves to try and negate the mind with all its logical questions when coming closer to work in bestowal. If you can just lower the head and continue and let the wave pass, these are just necessary stages on the path.

All the best,

Chris

Hi Enoon,

Once you’ve completed the graduate environment and if you choose, are moved into a ten, this is where you will begin learning “only the flesh” as we say. Before then, currently, this is the only structure we offer but I promise it’s sufficient to give you the basics before you begin the practical work. Desire certainly is the most important. Try your best to stay cleaved to the environment here; all the available sources, clips, and other media you would ever need.

All the best,

Chris

Hey David,

Of course He does. How else are you supposed to build a desire yourself?! His treatment of us on the path is confusing, especially in the beginning since it’s so opposite to what we’re used to in this world. If I love someone, then I give them gifts and show them my love. That’s easy, since all of us have the desire already to receive those gifts. However, in spiritual matters, in building a desire for something that is not known to our nature, not known in this world, then the acquisition of this desire comes as a result of not attaining specifically the desire – not the reward.

Don’t think veterans don’t receive the same treatment, and “worse”. It’s only the matter of the society that holds them and this is up to how much they invest in it themselves. It takes a while to begin to feel how that works, yet still there are new things that are surprising at each descent. That’s how it works. “Never trust yourself until the day you die.”

Best of luck, David.

Chris

Hey David,

I’m not an instructor — in fact I’m very new here — but I was just reading an article ( http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/42596?/eng/content/view/full/42596&main ) that you might find helpful and I hope open discussion here is okay.

I like the Baal HaSulam quote in particular:

From all of Nature’s systems, presented before us, we understand that in any being of the four types—still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, both as a whole and in particular, we find a purposeful guidance, meaning a slow and gradual growth by way of cause and effect. This is similar to a fruit on a tree, guided to a favorable purpose of finally becoming a sweet and fine-looking fruit.And go and ask a botanist, how many phases the fruit undergoes from the time it becomes visible until it is completely ripe. Not only do its preceding phases show no evidence of its sweet and fine-looking end, but as if to vex, they show the opposite of the final shape: the sweeter the fruit is at its end, the more bitter it is in the earlier phases of its development.

Hang in there man, and don’t take the journey for granted.

Hey Mancini,

Yeah, that perception is just an indication of your inner state – as you know. I wouldn’t say you caused it, or that you’re doing something incorrectly, but it’s something that’s being shown to you to bring you closer to the truth. Although, you will see all different kinds of opposite forms in the world which emerge as an indication of lack of correction and this will continue until the final degree. Our whole work is building a lack for the quality of bestowal within us without looking for reward in any way. The closer we get to even understanding what the wisdom of Kabbalah actually is, the more confused we become. Until we can emotionally grasp what our work truly is, where it is, what to expect, how to react – until then we are just discovering what it isn’t. 

No worries! Keep on going. There’s no such thing as “skipping ahead”. I’ll probably bring up “computational irreducibility” on the show because it’s a great example in this world for that rule of not “skipping ahead”.

Best of luck!

Chris