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When I am with my ten, when my friend speaks, and I am listening. Should I listen with an intention that, the friend is speaking in order to connect us together for the sake of the Creator?
Good Morning, I have been travelling, and reading articles…often I end up reading several articles because questions are spawned from the original article I was reading, so forgive me for being full of questions today.
A friend and I are reading Baal Ha Sulam’s #1 There is none else besides Him. In the article he says, “hat is, he lacks the strength to observe Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] even Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], for only by genuinely overcoming all the obstacles, above reason, can he observe the Torah and Mitzvot.
Yours truly, did not know what Lo Lishma and Lishma meant so I jumped onto article the Rabash Article 23 What Beginning in Lo Lishma Means in the Work.
Here is my two part question:
In the Rabash article one of the discernments in Lo Lishma is 2. One who studies in order to annoy. What is meant by annoy? Is this a translation limitation?
In the first article what is meant by “Not for her Sake” as opposed to “For her Sake?” Who/what is the “her?”
Hi Greg,
To annoy…there is such a state a person goes through where he studies in order to annoy his friends. There’s no need to open it up because one has to discover this inside, that he finds himself studying with that intention – even though he had hoped to have better intentions. It’s one of the many misdirections of the ego that one will discover while trying to locate the corrcet direction of Lishma.
Lishma means for the sake of the Creator. And Lo Lishma means he aims that way, but it turns out that the Creator has to grant him Lishma – because the person doesn’t have such a fuel, but only all sorts of other things can fuel him.
Are suicide and divorce considered “free choice” outside of being in a ten or are these actions also done by the Creator?
Thanks in advance Gianni!
By the Creator, of course. If I don’t know where my true free choice is, then I’m operated in everything like a puppet. But once I know, I have to choose. But before that, my choices aren’t real choices – I only feel as though I’m going through a decision making process while the Creator decided in advance. There’s a space for choice, but I have to study to locate it.
Hi Gianni, I need help understanding something please. I don’t have problem to annul during a lesson, or workshop or anything similar, but during leisure time, singing dancing drinking, my whole being protests, I cannot even think of annulment! I want to run away! In my defence, I never liked such big gatherings, and tend to avoid them. Do I have to have physical contact with people to achieve spiritual one? If yes, I am doomed! Thank you in advance.
I feel the same way, Zorica. When you frame properly the height of the spiritual goal and understand the purpose of the gathering, you’ll be able to see it as a unique opportunity to advance, especially when the gathering is done properly. The goal should be clear all the time, and be in front of our eyes. It should be serious, and of course if there is alcohol it should be fairly limited so that it doesn’t cloud the goal.
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