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Had an experience of something with a friend (phenomena?, Reshimot? ) not sure so I know Reshimot are records but that gives me nothing so what is Reshimot and what do i do with it once a Reshimot is awakened. Which might be what this was. not sure.
We really speak of spirituality when we say ‘reshimo’. In our experience, the Reshimo we have is the Point in the Heart, the backside of the last degree before all we feel is our world and spirituality is not even a vague memory. We want to follow this awakening we got, to increasingly spiritual discernments. The Reshimo is the record of the next degree , that allows us to awaken towards it. If for us it’s the first spiritual degree, then it’s the reshimo for the first spiritual degree. The Reshimot are like breadcrumbs we can follow up the spiritual ladder.
How can we correctly represent our friends during and after the morning lesson? In our ten, we follow up after the lesson, and each friend has a designated day to represent the group.
For example, if I’m the one representing the friends, what should I be focusing on during the morning lesson, knowing that we’ll be gathering afterwards?
Should I be thinking about how to help my friends increase the importance of the goal? Or should I be asking myself what they want to see from me in that moment?
What should I take with me in the morning lesson so that I will be able to deliver (don’t know the right words to use here) to them?
I’d really appreciate your advice on this. Thank you.
You build yourself by working in all these directions. Eventually they will come together. But you need all of it – to work with the intention, to worry about the friends’ spiritual success, to work toward each friend and toward the center of the group. If you can’t work on them all together, work on them one by one. As long as it’s with a request to the Upper Light to also work with you, it’s effective and advancing you all.
I was joking with a friend that if you don’t hate the friends sometimes you’re not doing it right. He said love is just love, always smooth, never mixed with hate, and that he never feels hate at all. That stopped me and made me wonder if that is really love or if it is just the will to receive playing with its own idea of others.
From what I can tell real love only shows up outside that bubble. It is not that we should go looking for hate or conflict, but love only becomes real when there is resistance, when I feel the gap between myself and others and have to rise above it. My experience has been totally different from his. I feel that friction all the time, always needing to pray to rise above it. Is it normal to feel that friction? Correct discernment? What to do about it?
Our nature is only self-love, to think about what concerns my self-benefit, for now or the future – and all that I deem as belonging to me in some way. We can only make efforts in the direction of love of others, according to the directions of Kabbalists, to draw the Reforming Light so that it will bring us from self-love to love of others. These efforts certainly are more of an effort if I feel a resistance; whereas if I don’t feel resistance, my Will to Receive probably agrees with the action, and for it to agree means it probably has found some self-benefit, according to its nature.
Contemplation is just thinking, clarifying what your desire is, what is most important. Meditation is described here:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SsQJkZNhE
Gianni, I need to ask about something that raised eyebrows in my group. I understand that procreation is encouraged in the texts, and Rav Laitman has supported this view. Â I understand that consideration is always given to the individual, and I don’t want to apply this as some mandate. I would just like my friends to know the root, and perhaps that will comfort them. What is the Kabbalistic meaning of procreation?
Procreation as in having kids in our world?
Of course, in the wisdom of Kabbalah there is a lot about procreation in the spiritual worlds because additional Partzufim are required to build from Above downward a system through which the Created Being can correct all his parts to being in order to bestow; and from below upwards, the created being can climb this ladder of degrees, through free choice.
As we are a reflection of Upper Laws, and all our emotions, thoughts and aspirations only reflect our matching to our upper roots, so a person in our world has a built-in desire for kids – like every animal desires to mate, and if he doesn’t have offspring, then he always somewhere is left with a deficiency as a result of not matching his upper root.
This question started as a topic in the women’s young groups and it has a lot of subtle implications, so it turned into a lot more questions. Initially it came up that in a Russian language lesson there was an instruction that women need to have children. I can’t quote the instruction to clarify, because I haven’t seen the Russian lesson. But the friend has a question that’s important to her about the specific responsibility (especially of women) to have children in corporeal life.
Another friend had a thought that the Creator might have a specific task or role in life, so there is no set instruction or advice for corporeal life because of this. In my case I am autistic and I wouldn’t be even remotely fit to parent until I was older than the biological age to do so. This seems to align with this friend’s thought. Also, some men cannot marry for different reasons.
I recall when I studied here around 2008 that the advice was very different than it is now regarding everything for men and women in corporeal life. Now that I am back here it seems like BB observes the changes in the collective and quite intentionally adjusts to it. Just like there was a rule to hide Kabbalah, and then later the rule changed, and it was only because it was time for it to change. Do you think advice about marriage and children will also evolve over time?
I am also curious regarding other ways of supporting children. The dissemination materials I am interested in making would be for children. I recall you mentioned you teach children in your work.
So, the question is, what is the responsibility of the individual man or woman to have their own children?
And also, what is the responsibility of the individual man or woman towards children collectively, including the ones they are not related to?Yes, we’re in a world where it’s hard to demand these things of people. That’s why it’s a gentle recommendation, which has always been to get married and have kids. It’s good for a person’s correction, if they can. It complicates their life, but helps their spiritual advancement. Generally, one doesn’t have a responsibility toward children collectively, except that the person is generally responsible for the whole world. But I have to do it through my own correction mainly.
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