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    Gil
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    • #393917
      Magsy Kapoor
      Participant

      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

      • #393945

        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.

        • #393958
          Magsy Kapoor
          Participant

          That was really awesome! Thank you, Gianni!

    • #393879
      Kimadigital7
      Participant

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

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      • #393942

        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.

    • #393696
      Sean Sotak
      Participant

      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

      • #393707

        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.

         

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        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.

         

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        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.

         

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        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.

         

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        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.

    • #392960
      Kimadigital7
      Participant

      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?

      • #392970

        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.

    • #392776
      Magsy Kapoor
      Participant

      Hi Gianni,

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

      • #392779

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

    • #392775
      Kimadigital7
      Participant

      How do we come to that state where you feel the friends desire for spirituality just as feeling our desire for corporeality?

      • #392778

        That’s by serving them, especially that desire which we wish to come to feel.

        • #392791
          Kimadigital7
          Participant

          How do we serve the friends correctly or how do we serve that desire with which we want to feel?

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        • #392790
          Kimadigital7
          Participant

          That is the issue. It is quite difficult to serve something you can’t identify. We just have this imaginary sense of serving. Even the evil inclination, my true self. How do we come to identify with it that it is evil and need some kind of spice? Everything seems to be imaginary.

        • #392817

          No, it’s so straightforward that we think it has to be something else. Help the friends reach the goal. They’ll reach it if they’re inspired, if you set the right examples for them.

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