Ask Anything

[Gil]

Ask, connect, inspire.

[Magsy Kapoor]

Dear Gianni,

Reading the Introduction to TES, a desire has awakened to grasp the difference between sins and mistakes. Is there anything you could say that could help with that? How do we get to this elusive state?

Thank you ❤️

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

No, that’s talking about states that are literally dozens of real spiritual degrees away, and not only a Kabbalist, but a great Kabbalist. We can paint them broadly as our world, where I actually feel that I’m kind of a pretty ok guy, maybe I’m a bit of an egoist, but so is everyone, right? That’s a state of not reaching the revlation of evil – because revelation of evil means that I can’t let this parasite inside me operate me. For now, I am like the glove on the hand of that parasite, and I’m fine with it, which is why I’m still a pretty ok guy, in my mind. Sins means I have revelation of evil. Mistakes is that I have already risen above the sins as well, meaning I would not have done them had I seen the parasite, which was actually doing them, while I went along with it.

[Todd]

Hi Gianni,

And the works of the field are plowing, sowing, and reaping. It is said about that: “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy,” and this is called “a field which the Lord has blessed.”

– Love of Friends 1

What does plowing, sowing and reaping mean here?  Specifically “plowing”.  It seems like it would make sense or even more sense if he just said sowing and reaping and left out plowing.  It seems like he put that word in there for a reason, what does it mean?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

This is a combination of these verses:

“They that sow in tears shall reap in joy” — Psalms 126:5
“A field which the Lord has blessed” — Genesis 27:27

These are very high. If Rabash stopped short of explaining it, that’s all we have. I don’t think we’re already in such detailed work. We need to labor. Exert. That’s what activates the Light. Where is the field? It’s across the threshold between the thoughts of myself and the thoughts of the friends. We haven’t done that general work yet. Later, we’ll find higher resolution in it.

[Verena]

Hi Gianni, how can we differentiate between psychological effects versus spiritual effects in the work? Take work in the group for example.. while one finds enlightenment , the other may find conflicts … we say the Shechina dwells in the connection between us… how do we not fool ourselves…? And to the opposite, how do we gain spiritual awareness as oposed to blindly following orders? On other words: How can we truly attain anything?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

You can accurately describe all the phenomena you experience as psychological. That’s your answer, and then more broadly, we can actually say that the whole perception of reality is psychological. The order of inner properties in a person, if they are egoistic, paint this world. When I will have more spiritual properties, they will paint the spiritual world. Crossing the border between the two requires me wanting to cross that border, which requires me always imagining that border between reception and bestowal, the difference between the two, and demonstrating that I’m trying to be already across the border. I can tell that I’m not ready to cross that border if I’m not imagining it all the time, or if I even prefer to stay on my egoistic side of the border.

[Helen]

Hi Gianni

If a certain klipa is revealed in my corporeal life, is it correct to say that it already exists in relation to the Ten as well, but has not yet been revealed there?

If so, how should I work with this klipa correctly on two levels:

In corporeal life, where it was revealed
In the Ten, where it’s not revealed yet

What should I do, and what should I avoid doing?

thanks

Helen

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

All in all, we have only the button of connection to push and we don’t comprehend a more specific klipa than that which stands in the way of this connection. Connecting covers everything. Measure everything against this. All the klipot differ just in HOW convincing they are that I have something spiritual to do other than connection.

[Helen]

what are the forms of connection at different major stages? for example, during preparation period and after machsom.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

You’ve heard the story of Rabbi Simon from the market, that even before the ultimate spiritual degree you have to go from disconnected to connected. Every time, the steps are the same. We learn about the main ones from Rabash.

[Verena]

Adding to the above.. and it may sound foolish to even ask…but I thought to at least try…if we say we wish to bring contentment to the creator… and we pray for that even… how can we ask gor this correctly? I try to imagine that… being able to bring contentment to the creator… but “I” cannot do any such thing it seems, because I have been designed the opposite way. Now, that doesn’t hook me off.. I just wonder how to ask and really stick to ehat I have just asked… being a human being, being a will to receive and having this ego pushing and wanting to protect me but separating me from being part of the whole… How do I ask correctly? How can I bring contentment to the creator?

 

 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

By being connected to your friends. That’s the Kli He can fill. That’s why you can’t bring Him contentment, because He has no contentment from an individual. It would give Him contentment to fill His kli, which is broken among your friends. Each one wants to skip this connection and go straight to the Creator all by himself. This individual work is only preliminary, until I realize that I have to connect in one heart with my friends. And that’s already enough.

[Verena]

Thanks for that… now, since there are so many obstacles and shatterings basically everywhere… what precisely do we need to hold on to…? What IS the lifeline

in the teaching /RAV/books that keeps a ten functional? What in this truly makes a group a ten, and strangers become friends? And when this is being challenged, how can we protect it… how can we invite the creator to truly dwell in it?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Obstacles come from the Will to Receive, which is overfed, too unruly for the spiritual degree standing before us. Every effort, prayer I put into the ten, feeds the other property in reality. Which animal I feed more is the one that will exert dominance. So, I need to ensure that I and all the friends are making efforts in the ten. By more efforts on that side of the scale, we sentence the whole world to a scale of merit.

[Verena]

Hi Gianni, how can we come to a true intention to bestow while still being linked to our ego, and to this world ? Like really from the bottom of our hearts, really for the friends…or really to give contentment above… and not in the end just for our own progress/ our own wish to adhere to the creator/ our own correction? How can we avoid using connection/ dissemination/ actions of bestowal to tune “ourselves”?

I am  struggling with those “mechanical actions “, because I feel it’s like cheating the system and abusing the options we have, if I cannot restrict my ego beforehand . … which would love  such actions…but for its own benefit.

But to really want for the friends  … not mechanically, but with true love….how can we do this?  Or even overcoming ourselves… going to a meeting or lesson when there is no taste of anything… how can we do this without wanting it for our selves in the end? What is the restriction I need to put before any such action, and what do I have to fuel into the ego engine meanwhile ,so the engine won’t stutter too badly and still allow me to keep going?
I am not sure if any of this makes sense to ask… it’s just that I don’t want to “use” the system… or even worse “abuse” it… but the ego uses basically everything… so I am looking for a way to either quiet the ego or to give it something to chew on…just to keep it busy… so it won’t  mess up all efforts. But just for now that seems rather impossible, so I am a bit clueless.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The system needs to exist upon klipot for now. They’re also from the Creator. We have to hold the system together in ways that the ego agrees to work. But from this system, we come to correct intentions. The Klipot assist us to rise to holiness. Through intentions that are closer and closer to bestowing. The aim that is closest to bestowal is always where the ego refuses to work since it receives precisely from the aim for self.

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