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Hi, we have been studying about the meaning of music in our ten… now, this was really a beautiful experience, because music can touch the point in the heart very directly, it seems. In Melodies of the upper World Part 1, it was described, how the perception of music changes as you develop. So, it was said, a piece may seem sad if you hear it with most peoples’ point of perception, i.e. feeling only lack/deficiency of the vessel , whereas a Kabbalist, who is adhered to the upper force, might only feel excitement. Then I really started to wonder, how our layers of existence intertwine.What is the connection between our point in the heart with the body/mind/heart trias we run our lives with? Is the life we lead anything more than just a basic corporeal programme needed to start the spiritual programme? Does it actually have any spiritual relevance? Or could we just have ANY heart/mind/body trias to go with, ANY random life story, ANY set of experiences in life-good or bad-and it doesn’t matter at all, because we will leave it behind when we die anyways? Currently it feels to me that the set of heart/mind body we receive when we are born is just like a functional suit designed for us to experience things in a certain way and grow through through the given experience. Could it be like this?
That’s what it is, a meat suit. Its experiences are no more profound than those of a costume, or those in the lives of cattle. Whatever we’re doing in our lives, isn’t called human, but a unique iteration of animal life, like dolphin life has its specifics, ant life its specifics. So, we do many things without achieving what we should, like some tribe that found a car but only uses it to dance on top of it or something. We’re dancing upon the Earth, when we’re supposed to use it as a springboard to an alien dimension – of bestowal and love and connection.
When one experiences a greater fear of leaving the path vs staying on the path , is this what is described in the writings as believing in “reward and punishment ” or is this something else entirely ?
Thank you.
I completed the 4 preliminary courses, but I missed the zoom meeting offered in the 4th class. Now I don’t know where I fit in. Will attending the zoom meeting for course 4 get me on the right track? I don’t want to intrude on anyone’s group.
Don’t worry, Katrina! You haven’t missed anything logistical. You’ll still be invited to the next round of Young Group when it starts.
Hi Gianni, what is the importance of studying the details of the mechanics of the spiritual worlds as compared to the importance of learning through experience in the ten? I feel my energy directs towards connection, towards “experience”, and currently it is really a felt wisdom rather than one approach scientifically, but I am wondering if this is just a phase, if it should be different… I am starting to feel neglicent about learning all the details… but then I feel, I woudl only be able to understand the descriptions through my mind. I don´t have words to describe what I feel, anyways, but what I feel is what makes the difference in me and how I perceive these things, how I perceive connection and unity … How is it wise to grow from there? From the heart to the mind? Both at the same time? Or the other way round?
Yeah some students are more inclined to the structure of the worlds than others. It’s a different language to discuss the same thing: connection. (This may tell you something about how much we understand Rabash, too). There is value is simply “putting it in your box” learning. Later, one can work with it. But generally, while studying the worlds, we want to try to feel it, as Baal HaSulam says in item 155 of The Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot.
Hey, Gianni, let me know if I got this right: while Tzimtzum Alef is not to receive unless it is in order to bestow, Tzimtzum Bet is the Creature realizing that there are desires that can’t be flipped in order to bestow so it restricts them further, not using them at all. So it’s not an ubiquitous restriction like the first one, it’s a precise and specific one made only on particular desires which slip through the net of the Tzimtzum Alef?
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The desires below the Tabur, it turns out, could even use bestowal for reception. So, even bestowal is somewhat restricted, and we have to rise to Equivalence with those kelim that only bestow in order to bestow. This is what’s necessitated by Tzimzum Bet.
We discussed the second restriction today in out ten meeting, relating it to the article from the morning lesson (Rabash Article 44 “What Is the Reason for which Israel Were Rewarded with Inheritance of the Land, in the Work?”) and questions came up, so I am going to ask you to clarify them if you would.
1. Is the Parsa the firmament (רָקִיעַ) described in Genesis 1:6-8? And are the waters below and the waters above, respectively bestowal for the sake of reception and bestowal for the sake of bestowal? If not, then what could they be?
2. It feels as if the Parsa itself is the second restriction. It’s like a tap that is blocked, because the lower ones don’t have a need for whatever it is that Bina has to give, which need would justify Bina’s bestowal and open up the tap. So in order to get the water running, there has to be a raising of the water below (MAN). But there also has to be something going on, some sort of action in the Parsa itself, because if the waters can’t mix, then how would the goal of getting the light all the way to the Sium be achieved? So what is the action happening there? Is it just the evaluation of whether the bestowal is in order to bestow like a membrane with selective permeability? And if it’s functioning is one-directional like osmosis, then how does the lower one get influenced to correct its desire?
3. Is it Israel (us) who is working the tap, trying to get it going, or is this not even people yet?
4. How does what exists below and above the Parsa relate to the worlds of Kedusha and of the Sitra Achra? Is the space below it the domain of the Sitra Achra?
Thank you again Gianni!
❤️W12One firmament is called Parsa. Another is Peh of Arich Anpin of Atzilut; another, Chazeh of Arich Anpin.
The waters are divided into below and above the firmament. In Katnut, Parsa separates; in Gadlut, reunites them.
The Parsa is a special system, a sophisticated membrane, which blocks the Light, according to precise rules. In Gadlut, the Light of AB SAG illuminates and cancels the Parsa, restoring the conditions of the First Restriction.
There are many more actions around this, some of which Kabbalists describe.
We’re below this system, trying to activate it. And we can move it like the baby’s cry, without the baby needing to think much, activates everyone above. We’re down below the entire system: we’re neither above nor below the Parsa. We’re below all of that. We’re not even in the Klipot, which stand opposite the worlds of BYA of Kedusha. We’re not in that either, but below it. Whatever you can imagine, it’s higher than us; than us, there is nothing lower, nowhere further to fall; only to rise.
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