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today’s lesson we studies” 36. What Are the Three Bodies in Man? a couple of questions didn’t get a chance to ask during the class
1. the inner body, which is a clothing for the soul of Kedusha [holiness]” please help to explain the meaning of “clothing for the soul of Kedusha”? what does clothing mean?
2. ” Hence, one must think only of the inner body, for it is a clothing for the soul of Kedusha.”. I thought all of our thoughts came from above, if so, how do we take initiative to think only for the inner body?
1. It has nothing to do with the biological body, nor is it inside the biological body. The inner body is the group, which can be a clothing for the soul, a wrapping.
2. Still, everything you feel yourself doing and exerting to do, goes into your account. At any rate, you’ll reach the goal as you feel yourself exerting, praying with all your might, toward the goal, and toward only this – so try to be closer to this.
Hi,
I am quite new in this graduate environment, and this question might be ahead of my current progress. I have the e-books suggested in the basic courses, but only up to the third book which is Kabbalah for Students (have finished Kabbalah Revealed and Attaining the Worlds Beyond). I am wondering which specific book that explains about the Sefirots, partzufims and the 125 degrees that would serve as a guidance?
Thank you.
Hello,
What is “taking every thing the Creator sends me”? Are corporeal issues that come thrown at us to give us a lack of importance ?
Yes, as it’s written here:
It is written, “There is none else besides Him.” This means that there is no other force in the world that has the ability to do anything against Him. And what one sees, that there are things in the world that deny the upper household, the reason is that this is His will.
This is deemed a correction called “the left rejects and the right pulls closer,” meaning that what the left rejects is considered a correction. This means that there are things in the world that, to begin with, aim to divert a person from the right way, and by which he is rejected from Kedusha [holiness].
The benefit from the rejections is that through them a person receives a complete need and desire for the Creator to help him since he sees that otherwise he is lost
Hello,
Foremost, Thank You.
I wonder if you can help me to verify the understanding I have of Unity.
First, I am in Young Group M29. I wonder if I should be asking this question without asking it first in my group.
Second, the reason I am asking the following question, is because I would like to present this idea my group as I think it will help my friends.
Third, I am having an understanding of Unity within the 10, as Adhesion to each other. The experience of that quality equivalent in form to Adhesion to Him.
In the corporeal world, but also in the forces behind the corporeal world:
The thing called Unity in the Group 10 has has two parts: 1. things that we have in common, “Things in which we are the same,” AND 2. things that we have not in common, “Things in which we differ”
Within the Group, both have to be revealed.
Things that area revealed, and in which we are the same, adhere to each other like magnets. Things that are the same are One. These bond in Unity.
Now, to the things in which we differ. These also have to be revealed. But there are two pieces to these things in which we differ: 1. is the thing in which we differ, like Person 1 likes color Yellow, and Person 2 likes color Blue, AND 2. Is this difference revealed, or known, and Accepted.
The Acceptance of the difference nullifies the difference. In effect, the difference that Person 1 likes color Yellow and Person 2 likes the color Blue, this difference, when accepted, is absorbed, and becomes part of the Group.
This action nullifies the difference, and the Group is also in Unity, with the differences, and in fact in total Unity.
Now I am combining corporeal acts and assigning the reconciliation of differences through knowledge of its existence and acceptance.
In spiritual world the difference is corrected in the Group by Reforming Light.
The difference itself is NOT important, the correction occurs in spite the fact that Person 1 continues to prefer the color Yellow, and Person 2 prefers color Blue.
The final thought here is, that if the above mechanism works like that, then we should explore all differences, welcome discord, all correction. Through knowing that we can raise these to the Creator for correction, is the practice and strengthen Unity.
Am I looking at it in logical way?
Thank you,
Peter
Hi Peter,
It’s very logical and in the right direction. Is it exactly correct? Exactly correct is what’s written in Rabash and Baal HaSulam. It’s a good exercise to take their articles and rewrite them for oneself, to make them clearer, more understood. Later, we’ll see that we need to gradually change back everything we changed, to how they had it. They wrote the manual for our soul. As we ascend the degrees, which are vastly different, these writings turn out to be universally applicable, true each time in a new way.
But it’s good to think for oneself too, and however you think about it is good if it leads to actions of connection.
Thank you kindly for such detail answer. I am still absorbing it, but a lot I understood.
I would like to ask another question please. I was watching Rav today at the Convention. A question was asked on how to correct a deficiency. And Rav responded with something specific like that the deficiency should be directed towards the group and the Creator may correct that deficiency.
I begin to wonder if what he was saying was something very specific. If one wants to correct a deficiency in oneself, the correction must go through the group. Meaning, asking the Creator to correct a deficiency in me is not the way to correct it. So I thought that prayer for correction, simple and specific about a deficiency has to be asked for/through the group first, then within each individual including oneself, and then outer like to other groups, Israel, Nations.
Prayer must have the right intent, be for the Good of His creations. It must be simple/specific. Bestowal is also simple specific, and bestowal cannot be given to one, or a group. Bestowal always is for all and affects all. So the prayer has to mirror that. In qualities “the” ask” itself has to be in a similar form as “the gift.”
As an example, I want to correct my inability to trust (and without trust there can be no faith, and vice versa), I would:
1. State the intention (I usually say thank you as well, and that I am doing it for His content)
2. Then ask first for the correction of Trust for the group
3. Ask for correction within each individual within the group, inclusive of me
4. Ask for correction for “outside” the group, other groups, Israel, Nations.
Is that the flow we should follow in asking for correction?
I understand I am looking at this very specifically, very sequentially, corporeally. However, that helps me in increasing the feeling of what I am asking, how I am asking, and why I am asking.
Thank you,
Peter
Adding 2 more questions:
1. We talk much about “making connection” and this sounds and feels like we are about to make an action which will build something, while actually it is about accepting the connection, because it is already there. Is about revealing it, of course by removing the “walls” and the resistence each of us puts within himself against it, but the connection is existent. These are even like 2 different dimentions with different approaches/qualities. Wouldn’t bring us a step further to consider that the connection is already there and that the “action of making” is about opening ourselves up for what already is there anyway? This is more like “un-doing”. Considering “there is none else besides Him” – it implies that we anyway cannot hide anymore and also that we are already connected and have to be in order to be in that state.
2. I observe in general – am curious to know if it is only my perception/just me – kind of subtle disception or distraction from applying the things we are suppossed to – we answer questions, or we scrutinize things and we subconsciously kind of replace applying with saying things. (When we make decisions, or make efforts to build importance and grow desire and the right intention, whatever) they stay expressed but not implemented, not integrated within us and our actions – I mean our whole environment. What can we do here to not let ourselves being like “hypnotized” by expressing things having the feeling they are done, but to also apply them?
Thank you!
1. Yes, the friends are already in Gmar Tikkun, and you with them. But what matters is your perception of it.
2. You’re right, the first step is hearing, then doing. And the inclination is naturally to stay at a more external circle. The ego doesn’t want me to actually internalize it and start connecting my heart to the friends’ hearts.
Hi Gianni, I have to clarify some things about the work before this important congress we will go through.
- already in our YGs we are suppossed to apply the main principles Rabash describes in his writings: every friend of the environment is a part of one’s soul, so they are a mirror, the work is to consider oneself as the last and the lowest and the lesst important putting the friends first, aiming to be like one man with one heart, to love them, to elevate them rising high spirits, providing them with what they need – whereby this is found out on 2 strings,
1. by observing oneself internally (reactions, thoughts, evaluations = revelation of ones evil)
2. praying for own correction AND for the friends good, which is found out by listening to the Creator what He wants one to provide for them through one or through other ways. If one sees a flaw in the friend = own flaw, of the “see-er” – taking responsability for it and accepting and seeking to correct oneself – is this even an act of bestowal?, yes, right? Every friend of the environment is suppossed to do this – by this + covenant of holding together no matter what – the Arvut and the building of the Kli in an balanced way are ensured. – Is this all correct ?- Concerning high spirits and building the importance of the Creator and the desire to bestow:
1. one might present articles which are pointing out to some „flaws“ of the friends aiming to induct his „correction“ according to what is written – here is to scrutinize to what extent the work in the environment is really done by all or not done. We are all in the collectiv process and everyone has his individual process. Is about feeling and praying how is best.
2. one might present articles which are opening up new dimensions of thinking or feeling, which are revealing the greatness of the friends and of the Creator, which inspire. Is this correct?- Questions:
- Everyone has his package he brings in, his qualities, his way of being. There are mind people and heart people, some are more fix some are more flexible. Anyway due to the given framework everyone is under the influence of the environment. So, if one is a reaction on his environment, to which extent can he take and carry the responsibility for his reaction or his state and which is the responsibility of the environment?
- When a friend A demands from one B to do some aspects of the work A means the B doesn’t do, but B does that aspect of the work, but A doesn’t see it – what is there and how to deal with this, when we take into account the principle of mirroring and annulment?
- When one sees something in the friend – he has to correct his perception about the friend in himself and mirror that correction back to the friend in expression or deeds – is this correct? That’s why we’re saying „acting by example“, we find that, what we see as flaw in ourselves and correct it within ourselves- according to framework?
There are some more, but these are the main points for now, together with appology for the length and with thanks.
When I correct myself, there will be no flaws in the environment since my friends are already at the end of correction. Once I accept this, I decide to behave as if they are corrected, and I want to be together with them, in whatever they are, however they are – as if it’s correct – above reason. I don’t try to correct them in any way, nor even check them. Maybe they need to appear that way, for now, for the way that I need to be. To expect any change in them means I had hoped to stay how I am, and that reality, the friends, will change instead of me – then I’m at odds with what’s possible in Creation.
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