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    Gil
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    • #413403

      Hi Gianni,

      Since everything here has a spiritual root, so must the Physics laws like Newton’s three laws of motion, the law of universal gravitation,
      Kepler’s law, Archimedes’ principle, Ohm’s law, Gauss’s law, the law on Conservation of Energy etc.

      Can you please advise what are the corresponding spiritual laws? Where can I read about the spiritual laws please?

      Thank you in advance!

      • #413549
        Ed
        Participant

        Thanks!

      • #413491

        If you want to hear as much as Baal HaSulam wanted to share about this, it’s in Talmud Eser Sefirot, part 1. In his notebooks, we saw that he was well aware of the principles physicists of the time we’re coming upon – but this is what he saw fit to tell us.

    • #413400

      Hi Gianni,

      What exactly is Sitra Achra? I’ve read that it is the other side, but of what? Of the will to bestow / the Creator? If so, then is it a will to receive, created by the Creator? What is the difference between the Sitra Achra and the will to receive?

      As far as I’ve learned so far, there are only 2 forces, receiving and giving. So this Sitra Achra must be some degree of the will to receive, as we have multiple names for God, according to our attainment. What degree is Sitra Achra? Do we reveal it? Do we feel it? What do we do or not do with it?

      Can you please elaborate a bit in this direction, or point out some materials for me to read?

      Thank you in advance!

      • #413492

        There are many degrees of the Sitra Achra because against every action there is an off-ramp into some twist into self-reception. The real study of this is just in trying to always aim through the friends, to the contentment of the Creator. Then you inspect all the different ways it’s not quite so. And then you have to re-aim. And then the Light works, and squares your intention more closely upon the right aim.

    • #413298
      Magsy Kapoor
      Participant

      Dear Gianni,

      In one of his classes Seth read a small text, supposedly written by Rav Chaim Vital where he describes what it feels like crossing the machsom. I have been looking for this text since, but can’t seem to find it. I had come across it before as well but this time it made a huge impression on me and I wanted to share it with my friends. Can you help?

      Thank you <3

      • #413363

        Hi Magsy,

        It’s not really one of our sources, so it wasn’t translated. Seth probably translated it from the Hebrew text. I’m also a bit unsure about this text, as inspiring as it is, since there were so many fake and therefore misleading Ari texts, and Baal HaSulam and Rabash did not refer to it.

    • #413140
      Verena
      Participant

      Thanks for all the explanations, I am very grateful for it :-). I found a short explanation about the four languages of spirituality, and that they are basically needed because they describe objects of the spiritual worlds, which otherwise could not be expressed as there are no names for it. But how are these languages used? Are these four languages interchangeably speaking of the same things, and equally difficult to be understood  – or do they have different purposes and address to different stages in our development? So that at one stage we may understand the one explanation, and at another stage maybe another?

      And then, does this anyhow connect to  the „4 angels“, the  four basic properties of nature: mercy, justice, truth, and peace?

    • #413108
      Todd
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      The friends corporeality is my spirituality.

      So how do I interpret this being in a virtual group.  I understand when physically with the friends we can get them coffee or make them a plate and so on, correct?  For a virtual group it is different.  How is it different?  I feel like we was told often to keep corporeality out of it in the young group and we would share things and friends would share things and sometimes that seemed to set the stage for much corporeality sharing.  I know we are slowly giving ourselves time to implement these things.  I just don’t know where the line is really.

      When friends talk about their own corporeality it prompts me some to talk about my own.  Not that I always succumb to this but sometimes I do and without a clear line I do not really know when I am doing it to much or not.  It is an ingrained way of relating and takes time to understand what one is doing.  Again though it makes it more difficult without clear lines.

      You know?  It is an unclear line so it is easy to talk one’s self into doing it again if one says to ones self that “I may as well do this because it is ingrained so why fight it when I don’t even know what it is to being with that constitutes going over the line.

       

       

       

      • #413118

        Half a word about corporeality, if it’s needed to understand one’s relationship to the spiritual path, our connection to each other, but it ties right back into going more strongly toward the goal. I always need to check as best I can, “Does this yield more connection to the spiritual path?”

        • #413133
          Todd
          Participant

          How do I know if something yields more connections?  It is nebulous in corporeality, spirituality even more so, correct?

        • #413136

          Either you see the Upper World, and then it’s clear, and you have to free choice; or it’s up to you to decide, and there’s your free choice.

    • #413095
      Verena
      Participant

      Hi, I am trying to understand that second restriction. in terms of the second restriction it says Malchut „seemingly ascends in her desires to the Sefira Bina“. How does that happen?  And why does Malchut need the light AB-SAG to gain altruistic strength to return from Bina back to her place? And what does it mean to say „if one (Malchut) raises MAN“  – what is MAN?

      Thank you for helping me understand :-)))))

      • #413121

        Malchut ascends by seemingly canceling herself, and ascending to the quality of Bina, so that her essence now is she who cancelled herself and is now immersed in the qualities of Bina.

        Malchut needs the Light of Ab-SAG like a baby needs only and specifically her mom – and somehow her dad, but only standing somewhere back of mom. This is just our root without which we can’t exist in spirituality.

        MAN is “female waters”. It’s a deficiency, but a specific, scrutinized deficiency to bestow.

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