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I really appreciated the teaching point in the ‘Sunday Meeting with Friends’ session from 24-03-2024. It was highlighted that Kabbalah was historically concealed because, in earlier times, the lack of distractions meant that masses would have naturally gravitated towards spirituality. Now, in the 21st century, with numerous distractions, those who seek out Kabbalah are driven by a genuine desire, or a ‘point in the heart,’ for spiritual growth.
It’s that we live in a closed system of concrete laws. Against every thought and action is a reaction in the system like throwing a ball up, I’m certain it will come down. But unlike with gravity, one doesn’t see the rest of the ocean of laws he is in – until he is awarded that degree called revelation of reward and punishment. The concealment is so we an show how much – without this revelation – we would like to live under the law of bestowal.
Hi Gianni,
The below is from a tweet by the Rav from 6 years ago.
“A person doesn’t receive anything from people. He receives everything from the Creator, “There’s none else besides Him” Therefore, think and act to create a relationship with the Creator rather than people – a relationship He transmits onto me through people (angels – messengers)”
Question: Will there be a time when we practice the above guidance to the rest of the world? or it shall forever remain applicable within the ten?
As always, Thanks.
This describes what happens to a person when they die -from a novel
At that moment, there were 3,147,740,103,497,276,498,750,208,327 atoms in her body. Of her total mass, 63.7 percent was oxygen, 21.0 percent carbon, 10.1 percent hydrogen, 2.6 percent nitrogen, 1.4 percent calcium, 1.1 percent phosphorous, plus a smattering of the ninety-odd other chemical elements created in stars.Released from their temporary confinement, her atoms slowly spread out and diffused through the atmosphere. In sixty days’ time, they could be found in every handful of air on the planet. In one hundred days, some of her atoms, the vaporous water, had condensed into liquid and returned to the surface as rain, to be drunk and ingested by animals and plants. Some of her atoms were absorbed by light-utilizing organisms and transformed into tissues and tubules and leaves. Some were breathed in by oxygen creatures, incorporated into organs and bone.Pregnant women ate animals and plants made of her atoms. A year later, babies contained some of her atoms… Several years after her death, millions of children contained some of her atoms. And their children would contain some of her atoms as well. Their minds contained part of her mind.And the individual atoms, cycled through her body and then cycled through wind and water and soil, cycled through generations and generations of living creatures and minds, will repeat and connect and make a whole out of parts. Although without memory, they make a memory. Although impermanent, they make a permanence. Although scattered, they make a totality.
So if matter is only desire, the dissolution of our bodies when we die diffuses those desires into other beings and so we are all One. So reincarnation is a general reappearance of our desires diffused in the world, and not a discrete new body having all our former corrections as is the conventional view of reincarnation ?
That’s what happens according to the dream we’re in. When we wake up, there’s just One. Now, what happens in some continuation of this imagination because I did not manage to correct myself? There are no words that can be said that will land properly in us in a way that is not an even greater confusion than we’re in. We do not have the vessels to understand it. It’s not like these think or like those think.
Hi folks,
it’s been a while since I asked a question.
my ten and I read a likutei Halachot as a group together. the teaching is from the morning lesson
Likutei Halachot, Laws of the Synagogue, #1
The ascent of the soul and its completion is primarily when all the souls are integrated and become one, for then they rise to Kedusha [holiness], since the Kedusha is one. Therefore the prayer, which is regarded as the soul, depends primarily on the unity of the souls. Therefore before praying one must take upon oneself the “to do” commandment of “love your friend as yourself”, since it is possible to speak words of prayer only by peace, when one connects with all the souls of Israel. For this reason the prayer is mainly in public and not alone, so that each one is not separated by himself, which is the opposite of Kedusha. Rather we must be connected into a holy congregation and become one, and this the prayer in public.It’s from the Morning Lesson prep on March 16thAfter reading this, we discussed together what we think it means. This discussion began a chain of responses and questions.
when someone gives (bestows) something tangible to another person – for example, someine needs a ride somewhere because their car broke down and you give them a ride-
who are you bestowing to?
the creator? the creature? an aspect of yourself? who?
someone said that we cannot really bestow to the creator. We don’t even have access to the creator.
When we talk about bestowing to the creator- what are we even talking about? What can we bestow to the creator?
I need to give the friend whatever they need for spirituality. Usually it’s high spirits, the importance of the goal that they need. Of course, it could also be a ride to a lesson if we live close. The Creator is interested in only this: the correction of everyone. Therefore, I can only bestow upon Him in this way, by bringing the friend an inch closer to this.
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