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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?
Hi Verena,
It’s best you read directly from the source about this, and then ask if you have further questions.
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/31382?/eng/content/view/full/31382&main
Hi Gianni, thanks a lot, I think I have read that text before, and basically I understood things to be like a conduct of seal and imprint through the different worlds, and in a root-branch language that, as I understood, only opens up as you get there. I cannot relate this to the 4 languages of spirituality, except that you would find natureś wisdom in all these four parts- Thorah, law, legends, and Kabbalah (although I am not getting, why Kabbalah seems to be equal among the others). Plus, what made me feel even more confused is that part about a wise man having to work it out by himself, i.e. attain it, and only after that being able to refer to what a sage tells him. I mean, considering that I am just at the beginning of this journey, does that mean as long as I dońt attain spirituality, it doesńt make sense to read any of this, because I wońt be able to relate to it after all?
You should see Item 155 in Baal HaSulam’s Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot, which explains why we nevertheless must study https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/OqZMFGHu#error=login_required&state=cc050b9b-0313-40d5-9d47-72498c258b04&iss=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.kab.info%2Fauth%2Frealms%2Fmain
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.
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?”
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 :-)))))
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.
Hi, I read in the Zohar (Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary) in the Chapter „the Rose“ about the thirteen petals of the rose, resembling thirteen properties of mercy surrounding the Assembly of Israel. What are these thirteen properties of mercy? And in general, which meaning does mercy have in terms of spiritual development? ( I understand in sociology or psychology, it is considered a thriving motif for altruistic behaviour, but I suppose this here might be different… and spiritual altruism is not the same as psychological atruism) Still, is mercy a specific spiritual force? What is its relevance?
רַחֲמִים (rachamim), Mercy, is the form in which the Light can pass down to the Lower Ones. There are 13 channels by which they come. If a person wants to receive these Lights, they have to make the corresponding corrections. But there aren’t words in our world that we can say that “it’s like this” or “similar to when that happens.” But we come closer to this when we read about these states, even without understanding.
Hi Gianni,
In Rav’s blog, there was this question asked and his answer.
Q: There is nothing except the Creator and me?
A: There is no Creator. He is in me. As a result, there is nothing but me.
I have also heard it said that we are not the Creator. Can you please explain?
Thank you!
Hi Gianni,
On Unity day, today, we read
9. Rav Kook
Each one should know and understand that within him burns a candle, that his candle is not as his friend’s candle, and there is no person who has no candle. Each one should know and understand that he must toil to reveal the candle to everyone, and to light it into a great torch and to illuminate the whole world.
I have a few questions please, as I cannot get to ask Rav:
1. “he must toil to reveal the candle to everyone” – what does it mean to reveal the candle TO everyone? How do you do that?
2. But first one must find/reveal the candle in him, in order to be able to reveal it to everyone, right? What does that mean? How do you find/reveal the candle in me?
Thank you a million in advance!
Happy Holidays! 🙂
Dear Gianni,
the answer above that there is no upper world and there is no Creator, seems a little confusing, please help me understand
– Our Rav says our work is to influence the upper light/Worlds , how do we influence it if it does not exist?
– In what properties and qualities in us is the Creator revealed?
– Finally, is there is no Creator, what is the Basis of ” There is None Else Besides Him”?
Thanks.
Until we are already in Equivalence with the Creator to some degree, there is no Creator. First we do, even though He doesn’t exist. Then He is revealed. First, we behave, internally, as if there is none but Him, and then we get into enough Equivalence with that state that it turns out that there is none but Him. And that’s because He is revealed in properties that are opposite to our set point in each moment. We always have to go out of ourselves and enter the friends because in the connection between them is the Creator. If I’m not between, then it’s like if there was no gravity there’d be no reality as you know it. So, if there’s no connection between the friends, the Creator doesn’t exist except as a religious fantasy.
His candle is the spark of the Creator, his Point in the Heart. We need to show each other how much we’re helping all the friends to reach the goal. You’re right, we have to locate this candle, and sort it; when we sort our Point in the Heart from our other, contrasting desires, we can deliver it to the friends.
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