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I want to ask about the spiritual level of Bina. How is it possible to only bestow while our nature is to receive? Is a person at this level would feel void? I think it does make more sense that I can bestow while I am receiving.
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George
The quality of Bina is a spiritual quality, the quality of bestowal without reception. It is a stop along the way to Receiving in Order to Bestow, which is not possible to reach directly. In fact, ones whole work needs to be to reach Bestowing in Order to Bestow, without reception, like Bina. Of course this doesn’t pertain to one’s corporeal life, to what one already is receiving. It pertains to an additional plane to the one we live on. What we receive there is something we’re not receiving already. We can’t receive it until we develop first this quality of Bina in relation to those pleasures. Does one feel void? Well, we feel void as it is, in our lives. We feel darkness, even in the best case scenario. Even what we call pleasure is really darkness because the contact with the pleasure directly, leaves us empty and bitter. And the bitterness from the accumulated experience and understanding that this is how it works, only increases. That’s why spirituality is a great addition to what we have, and in no way compromises it. Because we develop the property of bestowal, we are able, eventually, to receive in order to bestow. And, like I said, we have never actually received before, because the moment we come into contact with the pleasure, it evaporates, because we are missing the Screen required to receive.
I don’t see where you found that quote, but it’s ok. I don’t know what an action of conscience is, this isn’t typical language in the wisdom of Kabbalah. I know that no inclination that comes from within me can be in the direction of bestowal, since bestowal is the Creator’s quality, and He imprinted me with the opposite quality: receiving. So, it’s certain that anything found in the ocean of my nature is wet, i.e. no matter what is found in me is reception. But I can take the advice of Kabbalists, and just my involvement already makes it “wet” too. However, there is a force in nature that, when I try to go in the direction Kabbalists advise, which is towards connection with others who are making similar attempts (studying Kabbalah also), this force, called Reforming Light, corrects me. And by correcting me towards them, I am also corrected towards the Creator, and then He is revealed.
Hi Julian,
In video 1.5, there is a quote provided by Rav Michael Laitman, “Connection is called that I don’t feel the difference between you and me. All in all, I don’t feel any difference. Simply, two become as one in everything. In an inner desire, there is no difference. I feel your desire as my desire, and it’s located within me. Not in your body, rather it’s in me. Bodies disappear and there is only one desire. This is a constant state that is called Adam. The system that is called Adam, two that are connected like this, this is already a part of Adam. We can say that it is Adam. And the more that people connect like this, it generates more details of this one soul. More accuracy, a better resolution, and more spiritual attainment”
What can we do to cultivate a greater feeling of connection with others? I can understand that this likely requires a high spiritual degree, and certainly something that I struggle with. It is easier to feel closer to people with similar desires that we have. How can I foster deeper connections with those that have desires and modes of thought that are very dissimilar?
Hello Julian,
In the second Related Video, The Butterfly Effect, Rav Laitman says, “…And those here think that equality between man and woman is for them to perform the same roles, so they go against nature and turn in a different direction.” Can you help me to understand what, more specifically, Rav Laitman is referring to here? Perhaps an example or two? Thank you.
Hi Mira,
How can you generate connection with those whose views are very dissimilar? You need to find a common point on which to build the connection. That works in all cases, but the true connection is built on the common point, which exists in every person but is not revealed in every person yet. This point longs for its root in the Upper World. This point is eternal. So, while I have some passing common interests around which to form some corporeal connection with those around me, the true connection and one that is eternal and through which it is possible to reveal the Creator is through the connection with others who have this revealed Point in the Heart.
In video 1.3 Trial and error:
I want to read you a quote that is from the “Introduction to the Book of Zohar,” from Baal HaSulam.:
Bear in mind that the Mitzvot or the actions between man and man, come before the Mitzvot between man and God. Because the bestowal upon one’s friend brings one to bestow upon his Maker.
Another quote from M. Leitman > articles> One Law:
Actions of conscience do not bring a person nearer to the Creator.
Question :But actions of conscience (between man and man ) seem to me a correction, coming from the heart? That puzzles me. Could you clarify this?
Hi Paul, sorry it seems I missed this one. That’s the way the Creator built reality, that if I want to reveal Him, reveal the Upper World, I need to start keeping the laws that exist there before it gets revealed. It’s like a child needs to know the street laws before crossing an intersection. But here, it’s even more. It’s like I live underwater and to exist above, I need to develop new organs of survival. In the spiritual world one cannot exist in the qualities we have now. Therefore, I need an Upper Force to add to my qualities these new organs of perception, 5 new senses. I can draw this force by various exercises the Kabbalists advise for us to practice in the Kabbalistic group. I need to act towards them, as much as I can depict it, like I will act in the spiritual world. I won’t be exactly right, it’s a game of sorts, but I nevertheless will invite the Upper Force to change me.
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