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At what point do we graduate from the Graduate Courses? Are we encouraged to engage in the GE and the Morning Lessons, or just the Morning Lessons?
Hi Ed,
There are 2 rounds of Young Group. After that, you may elect to continue participating in the graduate program as a student or supporter while attending morning lessons, or you may decide to have your center of mass be more in the Bnei Baruch side than the KabU side. So, there’s the 2 rounds of Young Group that everyone goes through, after which you have more freedom to “study where one’s heart desires.”
During a class or the morning lesson I feel good like I’m progressing. I soon after feel empty or darkness I can’t really describe it. Do you have a suggestion for this “state” or what is happening ? Thanks Gianni
Hi Marina,
During a lesson, it is possible that the Rav is providing some level of – let’s just say – a covering for you. The lesson is primarily his work. After the lesson, we need to implement everything we heard. You were given at least some tiny feeling of the states the Rav was mentioning. Now, you need to aspire to those states. Nothing will happen on its own. I have to move myself, with a prayer to the Upper Light, toward states of greater connection with the friends, to actual love between us.
If we are pressured by the surrounding light and the kli empties… and we are exposed to this emptiness, the darkness…and all it feels like is that basically all we can achieve is separation and darkness, because we have nothing to give, and we don’t have the faith to truly overcome , because all we feel is the lack… what is the flaw in this? How do we correct our perception? How can we have faith when we don’t feel connection, creator, whatsoever…?
Are we talking about the actions we hear about in the Upper World, like in Adam Kadmon? Those are not states of darkness. Even if we’re talking about our work…you started with “we are pressured by the Surrounding Light and the Kli empties…” Those are already beautiful spiritual states where we’re already in the Upper Worlds. There is no darkness there. Once the Kli tastes the inner light, it weakens us – because we want to bestow more – and we have to leave the state. It happens that that’s the closest to Equivalence with the Creator that we can be, for now.
The darkness in our state is that we both wouldn’t choose this state, and furthermore, disagree with it fairly completely. But this reality is for me to have an opportunity to study myself: the still, vegetative, animate, speaking is a demonstration of what’s inside of me. That’s why it is written love your friend as yourself, which helps you correct your inner vessel, shown to you as if it’s outside of you. We have to very seriously integrate with the friends, to see this.
Then, eventually you reach a state where you feel, in the ten, and only there, in a Partzuf, the bitush of panim and makif (striking of the Surrounding Light and the Inner Light), that some of the Light must stay outside, and so on. This is already not a state of darkness, whether Lights goes in or out or stays outside…
When we say “Creator” – is here also the Sitra Achra included? Yes, Shamati 1 says we shouldn’t think there would be something like Sitra Achra, that would be a heresy and a transgression, although there is much described and said in the sages about this. So, we say “Creator” with an eye-wink, meaning, the Creator is also the “bad” what is not suppossed to exist and we’re not suppossed to admit? And how can we comee to Truth and to bestowal, if we do like described?
It’s simply that the Creator does absolutely everything, but most of what He does, we perceive in our ego as bad, while in reality, everything is gifts from the Creator.
Do we mean the One who made the Heavens? Until now we learn of Him only as the Maker of the light the earth and man. But we don’t mean the One who made the Heavens and the Elochim who made the light, right? Also, I heard Rav saying there is no Creator until we make Him, and He is (only) the next degree. Am grateful for help to order here, thank you
Dear Gianni,
What does Baal HaSulam mean when he talks about “purification of the body”? (For example in the first few paragraphs of Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot)
Thank you ❤️
Purification of the Will to Receive, the cleansing of the quality of Malchut from the quality of Bina, so that it can exist in the quality of bestowal without the Will to Receive mixed in it.
Centuries ago, there were some who could advance that way because they had a very small Will to Receive. Most people were living nearly that way to begin with. So, you could try to afflict the Will to Receive even more so it had nothing but to let you go toward spirituality. But most still were not awarded, as Baal HaSulam says. That’s why we are grateful to the Kabbalists who made such corrections in the system that we can advance not through mortifications of the body, but through the Reforming Light in the study of Kabbalah. And with that, the door closed to advancement via bodily mortifications.
Regarding the recording of Rabash yesterday:
When the refinement of the screen causes a feeling of deficiency because the light is ejected, and the light exits through the peh. Is that because the calculation (screen) was a declaration of intent towards the light, not to receive it, because reasons. And that’s why it comes out through the mouth?
I don’t have “declaration of intent toward the light” in my lexicon. When the Screen rises to the Peh, then the Light is gone from the Guf, and the Guf is deficient of that Light which it had. The Peh is simply that crucial point at which all the Light has exited.
We don’t usually say it that way, but it is expelled by the Screen, which is an expression of the intention to maintain the First Restriction. In truth, there is a question if we can use ‘kavana’ in this place, where it’s talking about ‘from above downward’. I would wait and see if Baal HaSulam uses those words.
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