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[Gil]

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[Ricki]

Hello  🙂

As an English speaker/reader, sometimes I get confused about whether ‘body’ refers to the desire which i feel in my corporeal body, or if ‘body’ refers to partzuf or partzufim. For example “At that time, the whole body disagrees with one’s work, since it does not feel any taste in the servitude.” Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 219, “Devotion”
What interpretation will help me to progress toward the Creator?

Thank you, l’chaim

 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ricki,

The most useful interpretation of the “body” that resists coming close to connection and bestowal, is you – how you feel yourself, your willingness, your resistance. You, at the level of your desire, is the most genuine matter on which to check.

[Kimadigital7]

When one begins to feel a sense of deficiency, what he truly need, how should this be applied within the ten?
Should I feel that this deficiency belongs to all ten, and should I perceive that my friends feel the same deficiency as I do?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

There is my deficiency and the deficiency of the ten, a deficiency that comes from outside of me.

[Magsy Kapoor]

Dear Gianni, I hope you have time to answer this, cause I really don’t know what’s happening. When I feel like I’m loathe to make the effort, the minute I recognize that this is a chance for me to do something for the sake of the Creator, I get happy and I now want to do it. It no longer requires overcoming. I don’t thrust this joy cause it feels like I convinced the ego to work because it found some benefit in it. How should I approach this?

Thank you ❤️

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

All our actions are going to be in varying degrees of Lo Lishma. We want to steal more and more from the Will to Receive, getting it to work one way or another. Generally what you describe sounds like a good direction, there should be joy in the work toward the Creator. If we refine the intention more in quality then we always find the place where the Will to Receive disagrees, and we need the Creator.

[Verena]

Hi Gianni, just re-posting this (I think the question might have been missed, or it was to lengthy, so I shortened it).  I am still wondering about this: it relates to Shamati 184 … about faith and the mind.

1. In Art 184 it says that faith is related to separation, because it is related to corporeality. Does that refer to the fact that faith is something we feel in our bodies as sensations or states, and as states in a human beings come and go, so does faith? And does that mean it is impossible to have persistent faith?

2. Is this why we get moved through ascends and descends all the time… because faith is naturally non-persistent?

3. Does that mean if we aim at faith above reason, itś by nature, that we will have to rebuild this again and again?

THANK YOU 🙂

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

A descent is a new level of coarseness (desire) that has been revealed, over which I lack Faith (bestowal) and have to establish it. Faith is the ability be above the desire, called corporeality.

[Todd]

How important is the study of Pticha?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Baal HaSulam wrote Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Ptchia) as an introduction to the entire wisdom.

[Burney]

Among men I know of none greater, than the ones reading this. Thank you for all you have given to me.   M Burney

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Thanks for that, M Burney.

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