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stick to the study outside the bathroom and from inside the correction find delight…..Interesting question thanks, Henry

Hi Joshua,

Hah! I remember at work, going to the bathroom with Shamati was the only time throughout the day I could have any contact with the environment. Even if it was just for a few minutes. I’d take any moment available!

Chris

Hey Ricki,

Yeah, this is a very relatable story. If it’s not school, it’s work. If it’s not work, it’s family. This is how it’s set up from above and we can’t go against it. Of course, it’s set up this way, precisely this way, so we would be given the perfect place to form that special desire which as you know, depends on the environment. Whatever chance, whatever moment (however short) you have to have that environment influence you, even if it is just running in the background and you hear every 100 words, then this is what you have to do. That’s part of your free choice.

Another aspect of that is you would not feel like you’re advancing perhaps. You may say to yourself, “well I don’t feel like I’m getting anything out of it, so I’ll just stop altogether.” We are always wanting to “see” the results and “feel” the results, but the work to acquire the right desire may or may not give us those results and a lot of the time it is just us “adding pennies to the account.” We of course later will recognize this necessary step on our path as something provided to us from above to suit that state perfectly, but in the meantime we just need to lower the head and give as much as we can.

I’d also want to remind that if studying interferes with your school work or you job in a way that is not balanced, this should also be checked. There are necessities and there are luxuries. Do what you need to do and get it done. If you decide there is something else to do that may not be necessity, this is where you need to check and see if it’s actually a place for you to add spiritual effort.

Best of luck!

Chris

Hey Todd,

Are you referring to just humanity in general or those who are engaging in the wisdom of correction?

If you’re talking about humanity in general, you could think of it as needing to develop “every corner” of our reality – open it up, develop it, see it etc. – leaving “no stone unturned” so to speak. On one hand, humanity has to develop and the ego within humanity needs to develop to its final stages. The will to receive is an infinite desire, just as the Creator’s desire to give so is the desire to receive what He is giving. That would be the “corporeal” reason for the separation which of course you can include the spiritual root of the breaking and shattering of our connection between us being seen as this “dispersion” around the globe as well.

If you’re talking about our work between us, then that’s correct, it’s not necessary to want to draw the hearts closer to be physically close. However, just as Kabbalists have done over thousands of years, they are always coming physically close whether it’s once a month, once a year, once every few years or they are studying close together daily. It’s always been something they’ve been drawn to because the strength one receives and can give by being physically close just isn’t comparable to being “virtual” as we call it. However, if there is no choice and a person is truly stuck and their only way of connection is the virtual connection, then certainly this was also arranged from above and in the meantime this is how a person would need to work.

Hope that answers, thanks!

Chris

Hey Ben,

Truly, the number itself isn’t important in and of itself. In fact, you can break it down into 6,000 degrees if you want, depending on which perspective you look at it. I’m not exactly sure the question about counting past zero.

The only reason there’s as if a “limit” on the degrees, if we’re talking about something infinite, is that these “holding points” or places where we grasp the Creator and His qualities need to somehow be felt in us and this is always with respect to our opposite quality – the will to receive. The will to receive is sensed as opposite the Creator on 125 degrees, or 6k or 613 – doesn’t matter. There just needs to be some place of contrast and the contrast is felt in the places where He separated us from the other souls – “shattered” that connection and we “repair” it.

Thanks!

Im thinking our “creators'” virtues of us “creature” is the same except of counting due to mistakes given of trying to align anything with the desire for equivalence of form with each other?