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Hi Gianni,
Can you please help me understand the concept in Article 42 – What Should One Do If He Was Born With Bad Qualities?
“…This means that all the qualities that exist in a person that extend from the four qualities FWWD have nothing to do with the evil inclination…”
1. So, these 4 qualities have nothing to do with the desire to receive? Consequently, they do not need correction? What is their purpose then? Everything that exists has its purpose…
2. What are the qualities of FWWD when they are balanced or less in a person? More of them is petulant-lustful-arrogant-lazy… how does that serves/hinders a person?
Thank you in advance!
The point is that all one’s qualities are neutral. It doesn’t matter how bad or good they look. I have no good qualities, I have no bad qualities. Whatever doesn’t yet have a spiritual Screen is certainly bad. Whatever has a Screen is good.
Fun? No, look. Let’s give a corporeal example. Say, Zuckerberg was made to learn Greek, Latin, computer languages, etc. Is that fun for a teen? The fact that you gave him such surroundings and brainwashing to convince him that that’s the right thing to be doing… but “fun” would be something low level – video games, etc. But because of this effort over that which would have been “fun”, let’s say that now he’s the one having all the fun while those who took the low-level fun get to suffer in lowliness of all genres for the rest of their lives (even though, in truth, these are false values and no one enjoys – but just for the example). Our Will to Receive likes the lowest level, least effort things. Little pleasure, but close to no effort. Yes, it is willing to sacrifice grand achievements for the sake of not putting forth effort. Up to and including serious drugs. And I also don’t care that they’ll kill me in a few minutes (unless, like Zuckerberg, someone brainwashed me otherwise) – because that’s how the ego is built. It’s written that before one dies that angel of death comes with a drop of poison on the end of a spear, which one cannot resist, and it kills him. So, I’m built such that I’m a pleasure junkie, wanting pleasures to go into these different desires I was given. Now, the question is: were these, any, of my desires given to me for their fulfillment? Or, perhaps, I’m like some tribesman who found an abandoned (but operational) vehicle and instead of turning it into something I could chase my food with a game-changing advantage, instead, I’ve turned it into a place to sleep or something like that? Maybe, just maybe, all these desires in me have another, sublime purpose.
VAK is Vav Ktzavot – 6 points. ZAT is Zayin tkatoonim – 7 lower ones. In short, it’s the lower part of these degrees. We can’t clarify more than that right now.
Yes, the lower part of the the degree is always vessels of reception. Yet, all the vessels are there, in both cases. It just depends with which vessels he can work, and we don’t take into consideration the vessels he can’t use to bestow right now. Though they are, for now, only vessels of reception, he can as if bend them such that they somehow work in the direction of bestowal.
I want to study the structure of the upper worlds, can you please recommend which text i should start with? In the past i have read randomly but now I am ready for a more methodical and deliberate approach.
Here I’ve compiled a list of texts.
kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/h3FdlLJY — Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/kB3eD83I — Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/Q8331iRZ — Explanation of the Article, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” – Rabash
kabuconnect.com/blog/vod/jul-12-2022-pticha-lesson-1/ — Pitcha lesson 1 with Seth
kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/OqZMFGHu — Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot
kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/7scSATcZ — TALMUD ESER SEFIROT (The Study of the Ten Sefirot)Generally, you want to study Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah – and then where your heart desires. After all, Baal HaSulam intended this to be…a preface to the wisdom of Kabbalah! You can start reading it on your own, and see when you’ll need to, or right away go to the curated options:
Rav, Preface. It’s older because Rav doesn’t give such beginner lessons anymore: https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/lessons/series/c/wtytn35z?mediaType=video
Rav, Overview of the Upper Worlds: https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/lessons/series/c/Y4ybN1qM?mediaType=video
Blueprint of Creation course. It’s a way to touch on the entire Preface and then later go deeper: https://kabuconnect.com/lessons/introduce-yourself-11/
Why do our sources speak so despairingly about dogs?
In the morning lesson yesterday, the article spoke about how a dog and a donkey is lower than a beast. What does this mean? I remember the teaching that, generally speaking, what is written does not refer to anything in this world. Can you open this up for me a little bit?
That’s true, we never speak of this world. They are all words to represent one’s inner qualities. Spiritually, any animal refers to our previous levels, the animate degrees (and he has as many animate desires as there are animals in our world) which are correct by themselves, but incorrect for man. Upon them, he was supposed to develop the human degree and thus it becomes already forbidden for him to tarry on any lower degrees.
Hi Gianni
Can you please explain what are spiritual desires and what is the difference between spiritual and corporeal desires?
Thank you
Hi Gianni,
From Rav Laitman’s blog of May 23,2011, Title, have you ordered the magic table cloth, the following except refers,
“The upper Light existing outside us doesn’t have any form; it has only the desire to bestow. If you want to derive pleasure from it the correct way, He will give you this sensation at once, without problems. Therefore, everything depends on the creature. The form of reality depends on our desires, vessels of perception. That is why we have nobody to pray to, nobody to ask, nobody to turn to, but only to ourselves, to the extent of our corruptness and the ability to become a little bit more corrected.
We’ll feel better to the extent we correct ourselves. In essence, this is the entire process we experience.”
The Rav says everything is only prayer and that the Creator loves our prayers, the part in bold says there is no one to pray to? this is confusing.. kindly shed some light,
Thank you
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