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How can we intensify that point of contact between the Creator and His creatures until we reach that state that we feel our lack strength and lowliness?
The light always works. In fact, we’re in the world of Eyn Sof already. But no, we’re still in a perception where we are influenced by such matters as day, night, whether others are awake, engaged in nonsense, or relatively neutralized by sleep. So, Kabbalists have also studied at night. But we have to study when we can, and when there is a directed live gathering, which influences us even more than the time.
So is the reason Kabbalists study early mainly to choose a time when the disturbances from corporeal matters are minimal?
If so, how is that different from, say, the Buddhist approach of retreating from worldly desires to quiet them?
Since in Kabbalah we don’t try to cancel desires but to correct them, is studying at night an attempt to ‘cancel corporeal desires,’ or is it something else?thank you!
Dear Gianni, how do the shattered and the connected state overlap- especially in preparation for the congress?  because on the one handside it seems like basically everything is shattered… and it’s just no overcoming- and then on the other handside, just through being in the morning lesson that field of connection seems so tangible (even through a break because of another alarm… ). How do we navigate in this , feeling there is nothing we can do,feeling it is all on the creator, but willing to do whatever we can… only it seems it’s really the prayer we have, nothing else?
Yes, it’s a dangerous cliff, the idea that there is nothing for me to do because the Creator does everything. Then one momentarily becomes religious. I need to do, in all states, with a turn to the Creator. Even in the most hopeless state, to find how to ask. It’s just that with my pride, I don’t want to ask.
As we strive to annul ourselves to the Creator’s authority and give up our authority, to obtain the second nature, is it also a giving up of our authority in our dealings in the corporeal world, seeking the Creator’s authority/wisdom, as we make decisions in our corporeal life, for work, family, and in relationships?
In essence, how much of the work within our ten is applicable and should be applied in our corporeal lives?
Hi Gianni, your explanations have been helpful, thank you:) Just because I really don’t understand it- What is the difference between A KabU Ten and a BB ten? I understand that as long as you are at KabU , it’s KabU who decides what will be your ten, who eill be in your zen, and they may change tens, also those that have graduated, but if you are a BB ten, it’s different? Is that correct?
Now, we have just finished YG, and the question is what is next. I feel it’s important to know the options. Because I feel there is an essential difference between a KabU ten that needs to be a flexible group construct and a BB ten that is „permanent“.
But before I get that wrong, and come to a conpletely wrong conclusion, which might chunk me out of KabU, I thought to better ask.
These are details I don’t know about and am not involved with – but if it were me, I also wouldn’t pay attention to them. Even if I myself were told that now I’m being placed in a just-graduated KabU ten, I would be grateful for the opportunity to nullify to a decision that is not mine. We have precious few such opportunities. And toward any ten, I can nullify like Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma. At the end of the day, it is only that I must come to love something that is outside my borders.
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