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If bestowal is indeed intolerable/ opposite to the will to receive, the substance of my being and (current) perception, then how can i possibly rise above such discomfort to be like Him? How do i learn to tolerate such contradiction?
We need to add something to what we have. It’s something opposite, yes. Instead of a bone, it’s a heart, for example. To become something more complex, less amoebic. It’s not that it’s unpleasant; it’s that I don’t long for it, like I don’t long for a sixth finger. But I can long for it through the influence of the society and the Reforming Light.
so what i first see as contradiction (from the perspective of growing pains), i discover was deficiency/ a lack which the upper light comes to fill provided i meet certain conditions? And what i once had no desire for I discover is an integral part of my body (like the friends) ? And so clinging to the society is vital no matter which state i find myself in?
Hi Gianni,
in many of the articles of Rabash and Baal HaSulam, they constantly mention that we should observer ” Torah and Mitzvot”, however all we do is read the articles. In what way then are we observing ” Torah and Mitzvot”?
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How do we know/feel we are giving contentment to the Creator?
How do we know/feel we are not giving contentment to the Creator?
First of all, we’re all giving contentment to the Creator, and we’re at the end of correction. What’s missing is that we don’t feel any of that. Therefore, we need to feel and know that we are giving Him contentment. And until that enters my feeling and clear attainment, I can’t say that I’m giving Him contentment.
If I want a criterion by which to know that I’m not giving Him contentment, that’s easier. I’m not giving Him contentment if I’m not relating to Him and the friends as one, and aiming to give Him contentment through this.
Another question, when I enter a meeting with my friends, can I think about ‘spiritual strategies’ that I have read about or heard from, or, should I try to completely empty my mind and just focus on the specific thing that we read or discuss at the meeting?
From There Is None Else Besides Him:
‘The Baal Shem Tov said that he who says that there is another force in the world, namely Klipot [shells], that person is in a state of “serving other gods.” It is not necessarily the thought of heresy that is the transgression, but if he thinks that there is another authority and force apart from the Creator, he is committing a transgression.’
What is the difference between ‘the thought of heresy’ and ‘if he thinks that there is another authority and force apart from the Creator’?
The thought of heresy is from the sensation that there is more than one force governing reality, and there is no one on the spiritual path (let alone people with no connection to this path) who does not – in certain states – feel that there are multiple forces working on him at a time – as it’s written, “there is no Righteous in the land who does good and did not sin.” But the question is what I do with this multiplicity. Do I go with it and think like others do, or do I work to ascribe each and everything to None But Him, the singular Creator.
Wow, Gianni , just watched the ice bath you went in – clip. How did it feel? What did you get from it? Wisdom-wise, gaining more consciousness?
Hi Paul. I got an ordinary corporeal feeling of exhilaration due to the biological processes triggered by the cold. I didn’t gain any wisdom or awareness from it since wisdom and awareness of something above this world can only come as a result of a spiritual action. No corporeal action is more or less than any other corporeal action. Therefore, it’s merely an analogy for our spiritual work that happens in an entirely different arena.
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