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How do I know, when I want to ask a question, if that question is bringing the light or feeding my desire for knowledge?
Our young group lesson is on Sunday. If we watched on Tuesday we would miss a sage speaks with Seth. If on Thursday we would miss Mike’s graduate class. Does this change your answer?
With the classes besides the Young Group itself, it’s each student’s decision for himself. Those who watch Seth, can’t obligate those who prefer to be in the morning lesson, and vice versa. But each should see if he’s really been through all of the main Baal HaSulam articles that Seth is covering. Because the students who are in Rav’s lesson seriously, have. Rav used to break each one of them down for us. If you missed reading them and having them somewhat explained, there’s a gap in your education. There is, at the end of the day, a certain foundation that Baal HaSulam tried to give in those articles. Without them, I’m peg-legged. Understand the principle at play here at KabU: it’s to bring all students quickly up through the ranks to the level of an advanced student that has been next to Rav for years and years – and not to hold you down or next to us for longer than needed. We just want to make sure each one has a good foundation. Because the Kabbalist only caters to beginners during congresses; the rest of the time Rav is focused on the more advanced students. I can’t skip basic science and jump to physics just cause I want to be advanced right away.
How do we know when it is a good time to introduce corporality into the group or riff off of a friend who introduces corporality into the group?
Hi Todd,
Unless the friend is constantly taking away the ten’s time together for corporeal digressions – and I don’t mean half a word here and there, but big swaths of time – we should be gentle, and understand that all friends are at different levels of desire. And in all cases, I would nevertheless be gentle. Consider that my ten represents all of my – even somewhat spirituality-oriented desires – while I have armies of desires in me that live and die only for corporeality, and wish to extract me out of all spiritual endeavors that take time away from corporeal fixations. So then, how much must I care for every precious desire that is even a little bit aimed at Kabbalah. This is how I should see my friends.
Having said that, we don’t need to talk about/introduce our corporeality to the ten at all. Our currency is the importance of the spiritual goal.
Gianni,
If i may ask:
1) Where do all the questions come from? There’s a feeling that they are “alive”, why is that?
2) Do they “return to life” when the Light that Reforms shine upon the Reshimo of the person or Reshimot of the Group?
3) i heard that we can “stimulate” the Reshimot- can you please explain some about that action?
Thank you very much for this forum and the opportunity to connect and learn!
1) Yes. Alive means according to a desire. Now, there is basically a finite, sequential, albeit numerous set of possible questions on the path. For this reason, I prefer a student only ask one sentence or so with a question mark at the end. The rest is their scrutiny, their homework, and I don’t need it. After their scrutiny, they arrive at a clear question. That, I can answer. A long question, I can’t because I rob them of their scrutiny, and “all is clarified in thought.” That’s why it’s “alive” – because each new desire that is going over these scrutinies of the desire and thus moving closer to the revelation of the Upper Force, is like a new baby. You might have other babies already but you love this new one like the most precious thing. That’s why we instructors have endless energy to answer questions. Though we “know” all the textbook answers, each time a new angle is required to meet the asker where they are.
2) Yes, the scrutiny is done by the Light but on my request, and what I have in my tool box to send that request is my effort in scrutiny. When I’ve completed my work comes a question that I can’t answer, the Light has to, and that’s a real question. Yes, it’s a Reshimo that’s revealed.
3) Through your efforts. The Light knows what’s in your heart. That’s why your efforts, if you’re not being a wise guy, are going to be correct. “The Creator loves all the works, however they are.”
What is the role or place of the Evil Inclination in The Final Correction?
Thank you for all you are and all you do, Gianni, from the bottom off the Heart!
The essence of Creation is the desire. The evil inclination is this desire when it’s aimed at receiving in order to receive. Which is darkness. And specifically from darkness we can know Light.
Question from a 10, please:
31. S. (1hr18ish RUGHTR) How to help a friend in order to no confused the corporeal part of the friend with a spiritual since friends corporeality is my spirituality?
R. Try to connect as much as possible and using this law you acquire his spirituality too and then you have a great vessel to connect with the Creator and then you connect with the Creator for two which is you and the friend.the friends corporeality is my spirituality???? this is a law ???
Thank you so much, Gianni!
Yes. But it doesn’t mean now I get involved in his corporeality like we understand corporeality. The friend is always on a higher degree than I am. It appears to me as lowly, as though he’s steeped in his corporeal desire. My spirituality depends on how I help him reach from that state to a spiritual state. In his corporeality lies my spirituality.
Thank you, that’s clear as to: “the friend is always at a higher degree than I am”
So the question is: does the differences in degree between the Friends “create” obstacles to unity and this is the “friction” that we learn about; which is experienced as envy, lust, shame, honor, etc. that causes one to advance “left, right, left right” and then this repeated action “forms” the Middle Line, because all of it is impossible without Faith Above Reason?
Maybe the question is: “the Friend is always at a higher degree than I am” : and this is Faith Above Reason?
Hope the question makes sense in some form and thank you very much for everything!
One degree is: the friend is at a higher degree than I, by Faith Above Reason. A higher degree than that is: the friend is higher than I, within reason. (I’m not talking about different little things that I can be impressed with others about in this world (while subconsciously preserving my greater importance than everyone else in the world)).
No, the gaps between the friends are beneficial to and required for unity. Two that are the same can’t form a whole. That’d mean redundancy. All the opposite states together form perfection. You know my (Dr. Laitman’s) examples of bicycle where one part has to go forward and the other backward, for the machine as a whole to propel. There’s nothing that is not built this way, in reality.
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