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The 4 phases were used to make the first man and we can also use them going back up the ladder? How can they be used by us going back up?
Robert,
The four phases are the primordial structure of reality.
After the four phases that we learn, there are other processes, systems and subsystems that we will learn.
After some more actions comes the soul of Adam HaRishon, then the shattering and then the birth of the material reality which develops for billions of years until a person reached a spiritual degree and passed that knowledge until it reached us.
We will learn the system and from learning it and working together with the other students, we will adapt ourselves to the system and rise.
Seth@KabU
Hello,
What is meant by restriction? I really don’t think I’m clear on this. How does the light react to a restriction? I sort of think through restrictions your system of worlds is built. Appreciate the clarity.
Curtis,
The ARI opens the Tree of Life by explaining to us that before the emanated beings were emanated and the creatures were created, everything was one Light called the Light Without End (Or Ein Sof). And then in the middle of that eternal light. The Creator withdrew Himself to make a place for creation.
Seth@KabU
Seth,
So is “Ein Sof”, which I don’t claim to understand, is like light radiating from all points that is without end?
You say the creator withdrew himself, is that what you mean a restriction is? I can see if Ein Sof is light without end and radiates from all points that a restriction would allow the spiritual mass and I guess a type of spiritual gravity
Thanks,
-Curtis
Edit: Seth I thought I replied to your post, but I guess I didn’t
Here’s my intital question:
Hello,
What is meant by restriction? I really don’t think I’m clear on this. How does the light react to a restriction? I sort of think through restrictions your system of worlds is built. Appreciate the clarity.
Here’s your response:
Curtis,
The ARI opens the Tree of Life by explaining to us that before the emanated beings were emanated and the creatures were created, everything was one Light called the Light Without End (Or Ein Sof). And then in the middle of that eternal light. The Creator withdrew Himself to make a place for creation.
Seth@KabU
Curtis,
Of course these things don’t just fit neatly on a shelf in our mind somewhere.
We are after all discussing spiritual phenomenon before the big bang, before the creation of any matter.
But from what the ARI writes to us, we try to adhere to what he writes to us, we try to be in the light of what he passes to us, that in that light, we will illuminate and understand and feel who we are and what is happening to us, and even more, where we are going.
We read that there is the light of Ein Sof, this means all of reality is filled equally with that endless light, everywhere at all time.
And when upon His simple will, came the desire to create the worlds…….as soon as He had the thought (of course there are questions here, how can the Creator have a thought, what is a thought of the Creator? He didn’t have it before and then He had it? Many questions, but we flow with the text which speaks of things that are beyond time and space)…as soon as He had that thought to bestow, it requires that there will be something to receive what He wants to give. That alone caused a place to become empty of His light. In the middle of the endless light, He withdrew Himself so that there would be a place that He could fill and delight.
Seth@KabU
Seth,
Could you give me some guidance to help me with Zohar study please? I have watched your Enter The Zohar video(s) multiple times. Not only did you make the class accessible to me and countless others, but you also made me laugh, made me want to engage and learn, and inspired me to study and practice with all of my heart. I have a set at home and I want to connect with the energy and the Light. Thank you Seth for the music and everything that you do.
-Shiloh
Shi,
The best is to read it with the group of students. If you go to kabbalahmedia.info and click on the link for Lectures & Lessons, you will see a list of all of the daily lessons. Everyday we students of Rav Laitman are reading the Zohar together for 30 minutes. It is the (Afternoon 2) lesson, you’ll see that as you scroll though the list of lessons.
While you are listening, try to incorporate your desire with the desire of all of the other students who are yearning like you are for this connection. Your spark will be added to our sparks and we will make a big flame.
Seth@KabU
Nathan,
We are not in receive to bestow.
What we do in this state is first recognize that we are will to receive and everything we do, every step, every thought and every move is for our own benefit.  From here, from this recognition we will be able to then start to feel what bestowal is and to develop a true need for it.  Then the light fills that vessel.
Seth@KabU
Is there a difference between the kinds of pleasure given to the creature by the Creator in Behina Gimel and those pleasures given in Behina Dalet?
Would you please give an example of each?
Thank you. Peace
My question should have read “Yashar Kel” rather than phase 4, as most or all humans are already there at phase 4.
Dave,
This desire develops through envy, lust and honor.
I bet you weren’t expecting that answer. We’ll talk about it more later.
In the meantime, understand that as a human, we absorb desires from the others around us.
We see some shoes on another guy and we want those shoes.
We see a vacation advertised and we want to go there.
We see a car drive by and we want that car.
We see a house painted a certain color, we want our house painted that color.
So, we are made this way on purpose.
Now plant yourself in an environment that will advertise to you the greatness of the Creator and you will develop to want it it, to become it more and more.
Seth@KabU
Let me see if I am understanding the screen: I need to turn my desires from pleasing myself, to pleasing the Creator, or in other words excepting the answer of my desires because it will please the Creator? Are we talking corporal desires, spiritual or both? Is this the act of being grateful or something else? Thanks!
Ed,
It’s something else. It’s something that is impossible.
We can’t do it by might or force, although we have to try.
From trying and trying and investing so much and learning about ourselves and the system we are in, we come to truly need it, not as a luxury, but as a necessity and when we reach that true desire, then the Creator gives us what is called our second nature, just as He gave us our will to receive, now He gives us our will to bestow.
Seth@KabU
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