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Hi Gianni… what is the spiritual impact of  a group of friends , a ten, being  shattered, ? Does it differ from a conflict, a person or two leaving or a rebuilding of a ten and how?
A conflict is a revelation of the shattered state that was already present. We’re all shattered. I could be unaware of that; aware but indifferent (I want to remain as I am); or aware and in a crisis over it so that I’m screaming out to the Creator for help. And these states can manifest externally, too. For example, I can be fighting with the ten, and not, in practice, in the acknowledgement that the state is a result of my shattered attitude to them. Meaning I know it, in theory, but the way I relate to the state isn’t such that I fix only my attitude instead of setting out to fix the friends. That means I’m shattered but unconscious of it.
Just adding: I am talking specifically of the deficiency to overcome separation, I feel it’s going so deep… because all we are is shattered… but even if I can acknowledge this, I don’t know how to become grateful for having been given this state…
Hi Gianni,
How can I become grateful for having a deficiency?
And what’s the purpose of the deficiency then if not to overcome?
Can it be that dome of us  are only there to have a deficiency, so that the light can fill the dark space and even in deep prayer there won’t ever be an answer, because the purpose of such lives in the overall system is to be deficient so the light can expand into that empty vessel, that darkness?
“Anyone can be as Moses if he cleanses his ways.” So, no, it can’t be that I’m supposed to only remain in darkness and deficiency. But there are states when I need to accept the darkness in a way that it’s as if from now until forever I’ll be in the dark, and I’m ok, and even grateful, that I have this point of adhesion, that at agree with the Creator, whatever He wills. This is called delighted in mercy, hassidim.
How can we intensify that point of contact between the Creator and His creatures until we reach that state that we feel our lack strength and lowliness?
The light always works. In fact, we’re in the world of Eyn Sof already. But no, we’re still in a perception where we are influenced by such matters as day, night, whether others are awake, engaged in nonsense, or relatively neutralized by sleep. So, Kabbalists have also studied at night. But we have to study when we can, and when there is a directed live gathering, which influences us even more than the time.
So is the reason Kabbalists study early mainly to choose a time when the disturbances from corporeal matters are minimal?
If so, how is that different from, say, the Buddhist approach of retreating from worldly desires to quiet them?
Since in Kabbalah we don’t try to cancel desires but to correct them, is studying at night an attempt to ‘cancel corporeal desires,’ or is it something else?thank you!
Dear Gianni, how do the shattered and the connected state overlap- especially in preparation for the congress?  because on the one handside it seems like basically everything is shattered… and it’s just no overcoming- and then on the other handside, just through being in the morning lesson that field of connection seems so tangible (even through a break because of another alarm… ). How do we navigate in this , feeling there is nothing we can do,feeling it is all on the creator, but willing to do whatever we can… only it seems it’s really the prayer we have, nothing else?
Yes, it’s a dangerous cliff, the idea that there is nothing for me to do because the Creator does everything. Then one momentarily becomes religious. I need to do, in all states, with a turn to the Creator. Even in the most hopeless state, to find how to ask. It’s just that with my pride, I don’t want to ask.
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