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[Gil]

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[Magsy Kapoor]

Hi Gianni,

What are Mitzvot? I realize that this is a very broad question, so let me elaborate. I have a general understanding of what a Mitzva is, but I don’t understand what my attitude should be (and without the proper attitude, it’s just a mechanical action). So is it something I believe would bring pleasure to the Creator or something that I know would bring Him pleasure? Do I keep questioning and examining it until I know or do I focus on the internal sensation towards the Creator and continue to perform an action as a tool, with the belief that it brings Him pleasure?

Thank you <3

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The Mitzvot are like recipes, very specific internal actions. But until all that is revealed, it’s more than enough to work toward love of friends with the expectation for the Light to work. Imagine your sweet toddler tries to do something nice for you from the bottom of her heart, because she loves her mommy. Does it matter exactly how and what she did? Try doing everything for the friends and Creator, with the expectation in the heart for the Light to help, and see what response you get.

[Magsy Kapoor]

Thank you, Gianni! What if I don’t want to be a toddler anymore? I don’t want to serve make-believe pleasures to my parent or do for them something that I would consider enjoyable. What if I want to really understand them and please them on their level? Shouldn’t I be aiming to grasp what pleases them? Or am I not capable of even that at this point? And what do I need to do to come to a point where the Light’s influence has matured me enough? Somehow it doesn’t feel possible for me to rest now in the awareness that I am just a kid. The moment I become aware of my smallness, I immediately want to move past it and offer something real to the Creator and my friends.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Then, you need to keep trying. This is a force of nature, a system of laws surrounding it, and when you feel yourself in this soup, with correct intentions that feed through your friends toward the Creator, then you’ll feel there’s a feedback system there by which you’ll know for sure if you’re giving the Creator contentment. At the same time we should be happy just to serve the Creator somehow, even in Lo Lishma of Lo Lishma. Anyway, on each degree there’s Ibur (impregnation), Katnut (smallness), Gadlut (greatness), and we need to be content to be in any state.

[David]

Hi,

Do you have the lyrics in Hebrew for the song that begins “And today we call upon you when you are near..” ?

Thank you.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The song is בהיותך קרוב. I don’t have the Hebrew lyrics. But here’s a link to the song: https://soundcloud.com/kabbalah-laam-music/lamdenu?in=user-305498523%2Fsets%2Fdecena-de-turno

And these are the English lyrics:

We stand before you, we are holding hands

G

On this very day

Em                   C

A picture perfect state

G

Of our yielding clay

C               D

Empty of deeds, our hands are bare

D     G

Our hearts are dust and ashes

C           D

There is nowhere left to turn

D             G

We see the broken pieces

Chorus 2x

G C

And today we call upon your wisdom

C           G

Though you are always near

Em             C

Today we call upon your grace

C         G

Teach us how to give

[Verena]

In spirituality, is there a difference between egoism versus destructiveness? Like „receiving to receive“ versus „harming to receive“? I suppose, both can be formed in feelings, thoughts and actions, but is both on the level of „egoistic desire“ or is there a difference, because whereas egoism can at least be neutral to its environment, destructiveness will essentially cause harm.

[Magsy Kapoor]

Is it this one?

kabbalahmedia.info/music/smsNxE2W/cu/OriDFasq?mediaType=video&shareLang=en

[David]

Thank you!

[Brad]

Hello
So im hosting a zoom this week, continuing with the Topic of Lishma, following the morning lesson on “from the Love of the Creator to the Love of Man” it say’s “why would the Creator care if one slaughters from the back of the neck or the front, the mizvot is only to cleanse mans heart”.  It doesn’t positively say that he does not care, rather, it was a question? I know that kosher animals have arteries in the front of the neck, while a horse for example has a second artery in the back and one in the front, showing that if it was slaughtered from the back, it would still suffer longer. And a lamb or cow cut at back would suffer,  So i feel that he does care, And in the blog post by Rav titles “Signs of Kosher animals” he says, that the animals  must be slaughtered correctly so it does not suffer.  I have my own version, why would the Creator care if one circumcise (slaughters)  on the 8th day ? It was discovered that on the 8th day a male baby has and extra 10% blood only on the 8th day and goes back to normal after. Can you tell me what does the Baal HaSulams question mean? Since these actions have a meaning and benefit in the physical world? How does this relate to our latest themes of  lishma and love of friends?

[David]

Yes – thank you – thank you very much ❤️

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

We have the level of forces and the level of this world, never the twain shall meet. Either we go to Shulchan Aruch and it will explain all the details in terms of this world, or we talk about Sefirot.

Also, though seemingly pain is a consideration in one place, as with the slaughter, when it comes to the circumcision and all the more so, birth, we see the opposite, that from great suffering comes great good. So, we can only get to the bottom of these things from the level of their Upper Roots in Atzilut.

[Dave]

When it says, “the whole world is included in the Arvut,” (article below) does this mean that as Kabbalists align more closely with the upper forces, they practically help the world shift from unconscious to conscious alignment with those forces? Like helping people around them all the time but not knowing that they are helping.

Practically speaking, a person who works with these forces does good in the world and helps others. However, this help is not from a human or egoistic standpoint, but rather by acting in ways that align with the Creator’s will—to fulfill the ultimate purpose of creation.

Or does this mean that the “world” included in the Arvut refers to an entirely internal process, where the external reality is a reflection of one’s inner corrections?

Preparation Before Sleep 26/12/2024

Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut” [Mutual Guarantee], Item 19

Rabbi Elazar, son of Rashbi, clarifies the matter of Arvut even further. It is not enough for him that all of Israel be responsible for one another, but the whole world is included in the Arvut.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s an integral system where every breath affects everyone else. We can’t see it because then it would be great punishment for every thought of self and great reward to see the benefit I’m doing everyone, opening the tap to the Upper Light, whenever I think of the others.

[Verena]

How can we sense the difference between an emotional versus  a spiritual state?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Toward the friends in the group, or not. With the Creator behind them, or not. These are the only metrics that can be, since only through these apertures can you set correct sights to spirituality.

[Autor(a)]

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