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It seems like the course play list hasn’t been updated since 7/22? Is everything ok? I feel like I’m a week behind now because the big difference in time zones makes it very hard for me to attend live. They were being updated every other day before, right?
Hi Harry, I asked and was told the following: The lessons aren’t uploaded immediately after the class, they need editing and then get uploaded. Recordings become available on the site 48h after the lesson at the latest.
1. Is it possible to do the work of correction at the place of another person and she will get/integrate the results of the correction work? if the person is not on the path (corporeal person, but close) and she and her deeds/interactions are part of one’s reshimo?
2. Are there souls who descend in this world and are like delegates working for others, and can in turn delegate the correction results?
Thank you
Every action affects everyone else in the system. I can complete the system, as if in the place of others, meaning I can come to some degree of equivalence of form with the Creator in my ten, however each one eventually will have to complete their work from their place in the system of Creation.
There are some special actions Kabbalists do but they are aware of them, clear on them, know how to do them with certainty. That’s a full Kabbalist with wondrous attainment. One who has a Point in the Heart is the beginning of one day maybe becoming such a soul who works hand in hand with the Creator.
Hi Gianni,
There is a part in the book “Wondrous Wisdom”:
“…This is an exceptionally hard axiom to grasp. As a teacher of Kabbalah, I find most beginning students struggle with such a concept. I instantly receive a litany of examples from students trying to show that the above statement is dead wrong. Some of these examples include the millions of people who give to charities every day, a man throwing himself on a hand grenade during a war to save kids, Mother Theresa building orphanages for children, the list is virtually endless. Yet when I ask them why they think these people did what they did, the final answer is not “to save kids’ lives.” It’s because the person who did the deed felt it was the right thing to do. In other words, in these people’s judgment, the correct act was determined to be exactly what they did. In fact, each person in each example was doing something that may even have had a negative impact or caused great sacrifice for themselves, but they would not have been happy with any other action. For instance, in the hand grenade example, the soldier had placed the value of the children’s lives above his own, therefore making it impossible not to perform the act he did. The will to receive pleasure is so powerful that it can even override instant gratification, such as safety or money, for a greater pleasure to be received in the future. At the end of the day, if we have any stake in an outcome, if we calculated ways to achieve this result, our will to receive made that decision…”
And I can so much relate to that, it is exactly as I feel. I couldn’t do it any other way, I felt it was the right thing to do, even if it meant I would be damaged in whatever way, and it almost looks suicidal.
So, I feel like with that “pre-installed” will to receive that is willing to “damage” itself and put last for the sake of others is in a way much harder to work with, as I can never tell if it’s my “pre-installed” will to receive or I really want to bestow and love the friends. It’s like an unconscious impulse from the inside to help someone, be their doormat, so I am in agony. What should I do here? What is the scrutiny to detect the ego and what should I do then? I really do want all the best for my friends, I am willing to disappear completely for their sake, and I can’t go deeper and detect the ego behind this.
Can you please, please help me out of this limbo?
Thank you so much in advance!
Keep going, we’ll see that it’s not the same when it’s for the friends as in all those corporeal examples. The Creator has designed the system so that there are limits to what I’m willing to do for the friends, and the Creator. And I’m talking about “routine” things within the bounds of what Rabash explicitly describes in his articles. Once one is doing all that he describes and cannot add anything, so then they can start adding intentions. In this way, one discovers where their limits are.
After reading the excerpt and Zorica’s words, I can certainly relate. I also think I understand that those “selfless acts” are based on the person’s desires. Is that correct?
At my level of comprehension, I see that the desire needs to be sorted out and requires a screen for further development in the right direction. The kinds of aligned actions I can take (if I can take any) are clumsy and mostly done through trial and error. I imagine that as perception grows and my “processing unit” is transformed into bestowal, I can find the right actions more effortlessly. Please correct me if I’ve misspoken. I can see it, it’s just difficult to fill in the details correctly. I don’t know if that’s quite right?
Does it matter what spiritual degree each of the friends is at within a group of 10? Let’s say, to start, two friends have minimal screens, and the remainder have points in their hearts. It’s the attitude, desire, and intention that’s more important, correct? Do varied levels of attainment exist within groups of 10?
Say in Rav Laitman’s ten there are those with no Masach (screen). So then one can be as Rabbi Yosi Ben Kiana whose group members were small but by lowering himself before them and treating the group as his place for bestowal, he could advance and refused to leave them.
I have been reading a sages fruit and under the portion “The necessity to keep the 613 commandments” In it Baal HaSulam says ‘The complete crave them in their hearts and souls to keep them down to their Corporeal Branches’. So here, is he going back to bringing down the spiritual 613 names (commandants) into Corporeal rituals and actions as religious people perform ?. Even if you had that craving as the complete do, you’d need to Receive religious instruction to perform those things here.
Hi Luke,
Remember, the main Mitzva, which includes all the others, is to love your friend as yourself. That’s why Rabash goes to such lengths to detail what that entails. It’s in the heart but also in all its corporeal expressions in the group.
There are a few other actions as you know, but not so many, that one can choose to keep, if he feels that he wants to complete the action at the corporeal branch. For example there is an action of Zeir Anpin that is symbolized by the wrapping of the Tefilin. Who is already at such a degree that he also longs to complete the action down to its corporeal branch – if we’re really talking about Baal HaSulam’s words?
But I do live in a corporeal body and so I have the ability to try toward something that is clear: love of my friends – though these faces aren’t really the spiritual friends, but what I can see at my degree.
The rest is personal, up to you, but not required of you.
Judaism is a religion. Kabbalah is a science. If I am in the world of Atzilut, as were those who designed those external customs, and from that attainment I see that there is something I want to do on the level of our world, because that somehow completes an action I’m doing in spirituality which is the main thing, then it’s not that I’m following some protocols that someone ordered me to do. That’s how these all came about. That Kabbalist, from his attainment and for reasons that are beyond our brains and hearts, felt like doing x, y, and z, and in such and such a way. If you want to copy them too, go right ahead. But the main thing is the intention, and actions toward connection.
Hi Gianni, which relevance should we give to all the corporeality,… with all that challenges going on there, people we meet, bigger topcis of love and loss,… things that might be path of developing „naturally“, even if it is called the path of suffering? I know, here we work on our spiritual path, we try to hasten time,… but what do we do with the rest? It feels impossible to take that part as a robot… we still have to relate, feel,…. And how shall we relate to the fact, that also in corporeality, there is development, just much slower? How shall we relate to that part where we live our „lives as beasts“… ?
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