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When we say “Creator” – is here also the Sitra Achra included? Yes, Shamati 1 says we shouldn’t think there would be something like Sitra Achra, that would be a heresy and a transgression, although there is much described and said in the sages about this. So, we say “Creator” with an eye-wink, meaning, the Creator is also the “bad” what is not suppossed to exist and we’re not suppossed to admit? And how can we comee to Truth and to bestowal, if we do like described?
Dear Gianni,
What does Baal HaSulam mean when he talks about “purification of the body”? (For example in the first few paragraphs of Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot)
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Purification of the Will to Receive, the cleansing of the quality of Malchut from the quality of Bina, so that it can exist in the quality of bestowal without the Will to Receive mixed in it.
Centuries ago, there were some who could advance that way because they had a very small Will to Receive. Most people were living nearly that way to begin with. So, you could try to afflict the Will to Receive even more so it had nothing but to let you go toward spirituality. But most still were not awarded, as Baal HaSulam says. That’s why we are grateful to the Kabbalists who made such corrections in the system that we can advance not through mortifications of the body, but through the Reforming Light in the study of Kabbalah. And with that, the door closed to advancement via bodily mortifications.
Regarding the recording of Rabash yesterday:
When the refinement of the screen causes a feeling of deficiency because the light is ejected, and the light exits through the peh. Is that because the calculation (screen) was a declaration of intent towards the light, not to receive it, because reasons. And that’s why it comes out through the mouth?
I don’t have “declaration of intent toward the light” in my lexicon. When the Screen rises to the Peh, then the Light is gone from the Guf, and the Guf is deficient of that Light which it had. The Peh is simply that crucial point at which all the Light has exited.
We don’t usually say it that way, but it is expelled by the Screen, which is an expression of the intention to maintain the First Restriction. In truth, there is a question if we can use ‘kavana’ in this place, where it’s talking about ‘from above downward’. I would wait and see if Baal HaSulam uses those words.
Gianni, does the tree of knowledge indeed have 11 Sefirot through the ‘Daat’? Is the tree of knowledge the realm of Sitra Achra, which have a domination over the tree of life? I’m watching right now your last session of SMWF and some previous info about these issues seem to emerge together arising these questions. Also: roughly exactly expressed: ‘Bina clothed in Malchut is the worst state’ – how can Bina liberate herself from this state!? Consider that she prays for the liberation like crazy and counters and adjusts all thoughts and deeds the best she can according to the teachings in order to be on ‘the right side’. Is urgent! Thank you!
Tree of knowledge it is called if he wants to receive within reason, tree of life if he only goes above reason. Because I can’t receive from Above down, in my nature as it is. The goal was to invert my nature to that of the Creator, bestowal. That’s why I’m not allowed to receive from the tree of knowledge.
Bina can’t rescue herself from within the Malchut except by someone else coming to her rescue. She has the key for the others’ cells, they hold the key to hers. She can scream all she wants as a prisoner in solitary confinement can scream all they want.
Does “coarse light” refer to future states we can see we want, but don’t have a corrected vessel to receive it yet? The future state doesn’t look right to us, because we’re still perceiving it through a lens of reception instead of bestowal, so the light seems “coarse”?
No, this is already territory where there isn’t even an analogy from our lives.
The Direct Light is called refined light, and the Reflected Light that emerges in the Rosh is called Coarse Light because it is extended by the force of the Aviut (coarseness) and Tzimzum (Restriction) in the Masach (Screen) of Malchut of the Rosh.
Because the lower one felt the will to receive on which there was judgment upon its coarseness. This is the foundation on which the Ohr Hozer [Reflected Light] is built. So, it’s called Coarse Light.
Hi Gianni… it’s a simple z maybe … but how do you recognize when you are just disconnected versus getting distanced from your root (if that is possible). How do you know when it’s just a matter of overcoming versus when you are on the wrong path? And what do you do when reading the excerpts appears to be rather painful because they contain all the lights while you feel just darkness around you. I suppose the answer to all this would just be to connect, but what if that doesn’t work?
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From any state, you still have prayer to the Upper Light. If you act, with this request, you will get the next state, and from that state, you pray, and you get the next state. From that state, you ask for what’s missing there, and you get the next state. “I called out from the depths.” So, from every state.
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