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[Gil]

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[Dave]

In the group and in the study, we’re constantly talking about bestowal, trying to understand it, hoping to come closer to it, trying to want it for the friends. But the teachers keep saying that bestowal is something completely beyond us, something we can’t even imagine, let alone feel or taste. It’s totally outside our reality.

So I’m struggling to understand: how do we aim toward something that we can’t grasp in any way?

In my current senses, there’s just no taste in it, it feels neutral, flat, not good or bad. I can’t perceive it as anything desirable. And that leads to this wall of, “Do anything but leave.” But without any taste, it’s like working in a vacuum.

How are we actually supposed to regard bestowal in this state? Especially when we try to want it for the friends in the ten, but we don’t even know what we’re hoping for. Are we just playing a game with words? Is that what it means that the Creator plays with us?

I realize this isn’t a single, sharp question, I’m trying to get better at that, but I wanted to give a little context to express where I’m coming from.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

We need to try to carry out the advice more than we think we can. Only in that which is a bit beyond what you can do, is there a feeling. You need to aim as precisely as you can – according to Rabash, and especially according to the main points from the lesson that day – and do more than you can do. Then it’s sure that the Light is helping and in this help you will feel the Light.

[Kai Andre Saue Skjelbred]

Hi

I was watching Kabbalah Explained Simply – “Why the World Is Always at War”, and there you say that if you’re about to do something that’s not good for you, and you know in advance that it’s not good for you but you do it anyway, then it’s a sign that you’re growing.

And one step further is when you feel that you’re going to do something that’s bad for you, but you feel like you have no choice at all.

So my question is:
Is everything I do actually predetermined, and what’s really changing is how I feel about what I’m about to do?
In other words, are my actions actually correct in relation to the purpose of creation? So it’s actually a correct action, but I perceive it as wrong because it’s not for my own personal benefit?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Kai,

Yes. But I don’t want to remain on that path of suffering where I do things constantly that are against the goal of life and thus my own interests. I want to become aware of what’s happening against me, and transcend the commands in me that force me away from my life’s purpose.

[Verena]

Just adding to my previous question, because it is really confusing me a bit… I always thought that the mind is so limited it naturally creates separation, and that the ego uses our mind giving us distraction, doubts and all that.  But 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?

[Verena]

Hi Gianni, I just came across Shamati 184, about faith and mind. Actually itś funny, because I thought a lot about how to keep faith. But from what I read, it sounded like by nature, keeping faith persistently, is impossible. So this quite striked me, and some questions came up:

1. How comes faith is related to corporeality, and the mind to spirituality and not the other way round?

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?

4. With respect to the definition of faith and mind in this article, how comes we aim at faith above reason and not the other way round?

[Verena]

It says there are five partzufim, AA, AVI, and ZON. Why are Aba and Ima paired, as well as Zair Anpin and Nukva? Do I get it right, that this is „Father and Mother“ (AVI) and „son and daughter“ (ZON)? In how does this refer to their qualities? Is this about complementing each other?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

There is a complimentary relationship between these parts. But don’t get married to these definitions as they are flexible, based on the degree. For example, ZON can also be husband and wife. But the relationships from Above to below and from below to Above are relatively always the same. So, AVI are always the Upper of ZON, and ZA is always the Upper toward Nukva. Aba is always the Upper One toward IMA. This roots are eternal.

[Verena]

Hi Gianni, I listened to the first part of the morning lesson, and we also read Shamati 34 in the ten.  And I felt it was both about „faith“. How can we combat the fear of loosing faith ( especially in the face of knowing that horrible things are happening in corporeality?) Itś not about questioning the creator in being the good that does good, but about the fear of not being strong enough to maintain this perception, or even get back to it. The fear of loosing faith and getting completely lost. In Shamati 34 it says itś „double torment“. And that is exactly how it feels to me. But what is the remedy?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

If you fear this, essentially anything close to spiritual, that’s already half the remedy, so much so that my corporeal fears are only so I’d transmute them into spiritual fear.

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