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[Gil]

Ask, connect, inspire.

[Todd]

What does it mean if talking to your ten feels like an exercise in futility.  At best they will just ignore what i say and at worst will give me push back.  Then I have to wait weeks or months for them to understand some things I was trying to tell them all along.  Aren’t we here to hasten time.  What is the point of me even speaking when i have to wait for them to get things in their own time anyhow.   I have asked the creator for help yet he seems to be on his union break.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Baal HaSulam writes how Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma made himself small before his students, and that’s why he advanced. You’re in a situation where you’re convinced that you’re greater than the ten. And this is the problem you have to advance, and not the problem you’re suggesting.

[Magsy Kapoor]

Hi Gianni,

A question came up last night in our ten’s meeting and the friends wanted it asked here.

What is the real reason why Malchut wants to bestow? Why did it bring on the Tzimtzum Alef? Is it for an egoistic reason? There was “shame” but what does this mean? If Malchut wanted to bestow because of something it felt, then it wants it for its own benefit, not for the benefit of the Creator. Is it motivated by the same desire to “control the Creator, to operate Him, to become Him, to take His place” that you mentioned in your Kabbalah Explained Simply session from last Sunday? If not, then what drives it, making the desire to bestow stronger than the desire to swallow all pleasures that could possibly exist? We need to know how Malchut felt, because we want to feel this way, too.

Thank you, Gianni <3

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Still, there is an accumulation of bestowal, that he doesn’t even feel as bestowal. At first, he feels only the gift, and maybe doesn’t feel it as a gift; afterward, he feels the Giver. And then he has to do something. Because the feeling that he exists gets cancelled. Because He’s doing everything in me like a hand in a glove. “For Him,” “For me,” doesn’t factor in. I need to be like Him. Later, there is Malchut itself. But briefly, to feel as Malchut we need to feel the Creator’s love, and for that we first need to love Him.

[Magsy Kapoor]

That was really awesome! Thank you, Gianni!

[Kimadigital7]

what does it mean to Open the heart? and what does Open mean here?

• This reply was modified 5 months ago by Kimadigital7.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

To open the heart means to work on opening the heart of the friends because “one does not rescue himself from prison.” “Open” means that I am locked inside my feeling of myself and can’t feel others, and I need the friends to unlock my closed heart.

[Kimadigital7]

Ah! thank, you.

[Sean Sotak]

Asef,

A Friend and I both had growth from things you have said during the past 2 retreats. I was impressed by an article that you read and it mentions “knowing” which has become far greater than knowledge.

My Friend asked about an article around the topic of your portion of light from this recent Sunday and it relates to the Holland retreat.

Could you please provide what articles you used and any thought or insight from those events.

Thank you,

Your influence is Felt!

Sean and Jay M26

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sean,

I believe these are the quotes:

1

Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”

The greatest wonder about this wisdom is the incorporation built into it. That is, through this wisdom, all the elements of the vast reality incorporate, coalesce and unify until they come into a single thing—the Almighty, who contains all of them together.

 

2

Baal HaSulam,”Man’s Actions and Tactics”

All the souls in the world must unite and merge into one soul, truly one, which emerges out of all the souls and they truly become one, as in the beginning of creation, when only one man [Adam] was created, and from his Zivugim [couplings], he engendered sons, and the sons follow in his ways, making Zivugim until this world is made, with seventy nations, and from within them, the seed of Israel. At the end of correction, they will merge into one another until all of them will become one man like Adam HaRishon.

 

3 –

Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 33, “The Lots on Yom Kippurim and with Haman”

The world was created filled with so many people, each with his own thoughts and opinions, and all are present in the same world.

It is so deliberately, so that each and every one will be incorporated with all of the other’s thoughts. Thus, when one repents, there will be benefit from this Hitkalelut [mingling/ incorporation].

It is so because when one wants to repent, he must sentence himself and the entire world to the side of merit, since he himself is incorporated in all the foreign notions and thoughts of the entire world.

 

4 –

Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 4

You lack nothing but to go out to a field that the Lord has blessed, and collect all those flaccid organs that have drooped from your soul, and join them into a single body.

In that complete body, the Creator will instill His Shechina incessantly, and the fountain of intelligence and high streams of light will be as a never ending fountain.

 

5 –

RABASH. Article 1 (1984),”Purpose of Society – 2″

To be integrated in one another, each person should annul himself before the others. This is done by each seeing the friends’ merits and not their faults. But one who thinks that he is a little higher than his friends can no longer unite with them.

 

6 –

RABASH, Article No. 14, “The Need for Love of Friends”

There is a special power in the adhesion of friends. Since views and thoughts pass from one to the other through the adhesion between them, each is mingled with the power of the other, and by that each person in the group has the power of the entire society. For this reason, although each person is an individual, he has the power of the entire group.

 

7 –

RABASH, Article No. 17 (1987), “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”

It is impossible to receive the influence of the society if he is not attached to the society, meaning if he does not appreciate them. To the extent that he does, he can receive from them the influence without any work, simply by adhering to the society.

[Kimadigital7]

There Is None Else Besides Him

… For this reason, one must seek advice how he can bring contentment above. Clearly, if he receives pleasure, there will be contentment above …

Each time I read “There Is None Else Besides Him” this last sentence always got my attention… one must seek advice how he can bring contentment above. It seems like something mandatory. A must. It seems as if it removes a person from thinking about himself to thinking about the friends?

1- I am seeking advice. How can I bring contentment above?
2- Should I be thinking always on how to bring contentment to the friends? Or be in the thought on how to bring contentment to the Creator?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

You should have both of these before you, but the friends are the first touchstone. If I bring the friends contentment with the intention that it brings the Creator contentment, I’m sure to hit the mark.

[Magsy Kapoor]

Hi Gianni,

Is corporeal suffering also an invitation by the Creator to come closer to him? How should we relate to it?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s a correction. We should of course prefer internal spiritual corrections, and try to make all our corrections in this way.

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