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Gianni, does the tree of knowledge indeed have 11 Sefirot through the ‘Daat’? Is the tree of knowledge the realm of Sitra Achra, which have a domination over the tree of life? I’m watching right now your last session of SMWF and some previous info about these issues seem to emerge together arising these questions. Also: roughly exactly expressed: ‘Bina clothed in Malchut is the worst state’ – how can Bina liberate herself from this state!? Consider that she prays for the liberation like crazy and counters and adjusts all thoughts and deeds the best she can according to the teachings in order to be on ‘the right side’. Is urgent! Thank you!
Tree of knowledge it is called if he wants to receive within reason, tree of life if he only goes above reason. Because I can’t receive from Above down, in my nature as it is. The goal was to invert my nature to that of the Creator, bestowal. That’s why I’m not allowed to receive from the tree of knowledge.
Bina can’t rescue herself from within the Malchut except by someone else coming to her rescue. She has the key for the others’ cells, they hold the key to hers. She can scream all she wants as a prisoner in solitary confinement can scream all they want.
Does “coarse light” refer to future states we can see we want, but don’t have a corrected vessel to receive it yet? The future state doesn’t look right to us, because we’re still perceiving it through a lens of reception instead of bestowal, so the light seems “coarse”?
No, this is already territory where there isn’t even an analogy from our lives.
The Direct Light is called refined light, and the Reflected Light that emerges in the Rosh is called Coarse Light because it is extended by the force of the Aviut (coarseness) and Tzimzum (Restriction) in the Masach (Screen) of Malchut of the Rosh.
Because the lower one felt the will to receive on which there was judgment upon its coarseness. This is the foundation on which the Ohr Hozer [Reflected Light] is built. So, it’s called Coarse Light.
Hi Gianni… it’s a simple z maybe … but how do you recognize when you are just disconnected versus getting distanced from your root (if that is possible). How do you know when it’s just a matter of overcoming versus when you are on the wrong path? And what do you do when reading the excerpts appears to be rather painful because they contain all the lights while you feel just darkness around you. I suppose the answer to all this would just be to connect, but what if that doesn’t work?
Thanks:)
From any state, you still have prayer to the Upper Light. If you act, with this request, you will get the next state, and from that state, you pray, and you get the next state. From that state, you ask for what’s missing there, and you get the next state. “I called out from the depths.” So, from every state.
Hi Gianni , a follow up question on prayer: How can I ask anything from the vreator, if it’s for me? Even if I just ask him to teach me, show me, reveal whatsoever I am to learn… it’s still for myself… so how can this ever be answered? Especially if it’s coming from one person. I understood prayers coming from a single person need to pass some sort of judgement…
In the morning lesson they read ” The Striking of Thoughts upon Man” by Rabash. But nobody asked if the “striking” here is the same as a “striking” on a spiritual partzuf, or why the text seems to be framed in a pre-attainment cognitive paradigm.
This text seemed to imply that the “striking” is to trouble the lower one. And the way it’s describing it is as if the same striking happens on someone who doesn’t have spiritual perception or a real screen yet. It certainly describes states that anyone can relate to: having troubling thoughts that require scrutiny, the Creator sending an awareness of your own egoism in a situation, making a calculation not to act on an egoistic impulse for the sake of the Creator. These are thoughts that anyone beginning the study will have all the time.
“…We can interpret that striking is the thoughts that strike a person, trouble him and tire him, and he has thoughts this way and that way. And all this is because he has a Masach…”
(But this also happens in a person without a Masach.)“…and thoughts begin to run about within him. This is called ‘striking with his views.’…” (Is this another kind of striking? An internal one?)
“…This means that although he does not really feel the importance of the upper one, the scrutiny is through a Masach, called ‘an attempt,’ regarded as ‘concealment.’ But when he overcomes the Masach and sustains it, meaning he does not cancel the Masach,…”
Does this mean that before one gets a permanent Masach and perception of the spiritual world, that they are already making the calculations and the “attempt,”??
Does it mean that even before having a screen and perceiving the spiritual world you could achieve (to some measure) the following result described in Rabash’s note?
“…this causes joy above, and then the upper one also gives him joy. That is, to the extent that he received the importance of the upper one above reason, that same measure of greatness of the upper one extends to him within reason, not less and not more.”
Is the pleasure of devotion the reward described there, which is dispensed in the same measure as the amount of devotion you mustered in response to the striking?
No, this is how Rabash writes when he seemingly doesn’t write for those who can get confused. These are notes to himself, possibly to be turned into an article at some point. Since above you have all the roots that cascade down into our world too, you have something like it here. But Rabash did have a Masach [screen]. And we also have the thoughts that trouble us, and disturb us reaching spirituality. What else do we think we’re ever going to have besides a desire, and thoughts that come from the desire about how to receive or bestow?
To your other question, yes, in everything on the path there is some kind of contentment in it. It’s all a great adventure with an array of encounters along the way to the goal.
Hi Gianni
it’s me again 🙂
So our correction is to aim for receiving in order to bestow to the Creator, and we can only achieve that through bestowing to the Ten. but I am not the Creator, the Creator bestows endless light/love to us, but me as a pure will to receive, what do I have that I can bestow to my friends?
thanks
Helen
Receiving in order to bestow, yes; but that’s far away. We need to bestow in order to bestow. Pure bestowal, without anything in return. I can’t already mix some reception together with that. Bestow to bestow without wanting anything, not even the confirmation that I’m in bestowal or that it’s working or correct, but just according to what our teachers advised. Elevate the friends, push them toward the goal, expect help from the Light, and the world is a wide field for such bestowal. If the goal is to reach true bestowal, I don’t need more.
thank you for that clarification. we were also advised to only elevate the friends, but not share our lowliness to avoid bring the entire Ten down. but if I do not know a friend’ state, how do I elective this friend? I recently shared an excerpt about how it was the creator who sent us wicked thoughts, then realized that a few friends were “suffering” silently. if we knew what each other had been going through, we probably would all just be honest and openly talking about it, instead of feeling low and lonely silently. we were given homework, our zoom calls are all centered around homework, it mostly talking with brain on knowledge side, what is Laban, what is Esau, what is Jacob etc. maybe we understood the rules wrong? it feels like we need heart to heart talk, share the spies we noticed in ourselves, share the obstacles we encountered, so we can identify our common deficiencies, then raise our common prayer.
so I guess my question is, what should we would (other than go to classes, join zoom calls, share excerpts, force ourselves to talk positively, act positively etc) are also considered bestowing? I know those ‘acting” are needed, but it feels like we also need something deeper.
I heard from Rav Laitman:
Don’t scrutinize where we REALLY are. That’s after we have the Masach. Then we will draw out the evil inclination on our own. That’s a long way off. For now, we are acting, and we truly want to reach a state called love between us. I don’t check who they are, what they are, but only how I can fill up the distance between us with love. By that, I draw the Reforming Light. Before every lesson, this is a mandatory exercise — and in every assembly of the ten.
Hi Gianni
How do I view life events less as distractions, but rather material/fuel for spiritual work?
thanks
Helen
First to know that this life is only to turn from it to more spiritual things. Yes, we must take care of this life – that is a commandment as much as any spiritual advice we get from the Kabbalists – however, all that is only so that one would do so just what’s necessary and normal, and not more than I need to be able to turn from it upwards. But to be awarded such thoughts all the time, we have to be connected to our ten, to actually feel the friends close to us. The Arvut between us, the friends are the spiritual neurons that allow us to have spiritual thoughts.
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