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When we read together in the Ten, the words of the friends, and for example, reading Shamati, does it guide us to feel the Upper World? And what if you truly feel that each words of the friends is leading the ten to feel the upper world
Behind the friends stands the Creator, and if you hear the words of the friends, these words can take you out of yourself, into them, and into the Creator.
What does behind mean? Because in Kabbalah, we don’t corporealise words. That’s why I am asking.
What I was trying to ask is that, when reading kabbalistic books, for example, Shamati, the words in it, are they guiding us to feel the Upper World? And if so, we should align our thoughts with that when reading? And that should be the effort or Mitzvah?
Thank you
‘Behind’ means that through this externality you discover deeper layers. But it’s through this layer. It’s the same with the books. Through them, they take you out of your thoughts and desires into those of the author, who is in contact with the Creator. He takes you by the hand to the Upper World.
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
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