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Hi Gianni,
I have a Q. related to the manifestation of shame in the “10” and its use seeking unity with the Creator. I read the Rav post “Shame is the point of myself” Rav answered : “We understand that each of us has egoism, and each of us has an enhanced sense of shame; and we must play on this feeling, showing the other person how much worse he is in relation to his friends, and to what extent he does not fulfill what we would like him to. In this way we spur him forward for his own benefit.”
It confuses me. I thought that we should annul ourselves in front of our friends, tryin to shame ourselves by trying to see the friends as being higher than ourselves. But here Dr. Laitman seems to say the opposite, shaming the friends and not us.
Could you please help me understand correctly?
Thank you much
Hi Lorie,
To clarify for others – because not everyone is in a group of 10 already – you’re asking if there’s some form of shame in our world like Malchut feels in the world of Eyn Sof. First of all, there’s no such feeling in our world. All the worlds are only to avoid the feeling of shame from now on. Which is why our whole lives, we do all sorts of things, practically live our entire life, according to the ways we can get around any possibilities of feeling shame. We’ve never felt it. But we can use this in the ten. If I show the friends an example of bestowal, adhesion to the path, our teacher, and so on – this plays on each one’s strongest instinct, to avoid shame, that is to avoid being less than anyone else. It spurs the other to also bestow. And by this, you do them a great favor. Just watch that that’s your intention.
If the letters, HaVaYaH (Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey), in His Name contain the whole of reality, without any exception, how are we below them? It sounds like we are a separate extension or derivative after all this, or maybe we are the end point of the second Hey. When we start achieving the goal of creation in the next time period, will there be another letter added to the Creator’s name?
Also, during these four phases, was the Creator completely revealed to the creature? If so, do we have reshimot that remember the revealed Creator?
Also, I am trying to understand the exact perspective of Malchut. . . since in past representations of this diagram I was thinking of her as the kli. And in the diagrams of the offset boxes I thought of them like snowmen, like each has a head and a body, and the two together are the entity (called Malchut most of the time.) But when I am looking at yours I am feeling like that might have been the wrong idea, and maybe Malchut is actually just a point of perspective working with this body, and it’s not her body at all. Just like how I am a point of perspective riding in this animal called a human.
Is Malchut a point of perspective situated at the level of the screen, who is looking at all the interactions on the screen and making calculations and observations? And the “guf” is what appears to be all the other people and every entity in our world? And she is not anatomically (in the spiritual sense) similar to the other people at all. They are each opportunities for her to fill more desires, and if she connects to them her point of perspective can see the filling of the desire and feel the feeling of filling it. And the “rosh” is her knowledge and perception of the filling of those desires? It’s the extent that she can see it happening?
(I suppose if this were the case each person would be their own universe overlapping each others’ like a hologram. But, idk, because Rav says the world doesn’t actually exist.)
And I read this:
“In other words, they draw lights for the benefit of the world in a depiction of clothing – drawing direct light – and through striking, they raise reflected light that clothes the direct light in a depiction of clothing. They draw direct light for the benefit of the world downward, and raise reflected light from below upward, clothing the direct light, and this is called by the name ‘depiction.'”And it sounded like we might be a point of perspective looking at this depiction and interpreting it according to our own qualities. So, I guess my question is if that kli is actually part of me, or it’s just something I can sense, and I am just the point of perspective having this question.
And is Malchut one perspective, or billions of them? When the shattering is knit back together, will there be billions of discrete points of perspective that can sense each other’s senses, or just One?
When we start achieving the goal of creation in the next time period, will there be another letter added to the Creator’s name?
No
During these four phases, was the Creator completely revealed to the creature? If so, do we have reshimot that remember the revealed Creator?
He was, and we do. This is why we’re drawn to Kabbalah.
Is Malchut a point of perspective situated at the level of the screen, who is looking at all the interactions on the screen and making calculations and observations? And the “guf” is what appears to be all the other people and every entity in our world?
You’re imagining you’re in the spiritual world. You’re in the imaginary world.
And is Malchut one perspective, or billions of them? When the shattering is knit back together, will there be billions of discrete points of perspective that can sense each other’s senses, or just One?
Two opposites, which compose a singular reality.
But how do you keep engaging with the text if you can’t grasp onto something for your intellect to chew on some level? I can commit to spending a certain amount of time a day reading it. But any continuity at all in the “story” of it is the carrot on a stick to keep my brain from wandering away from it. I have to let it imagine something or it will play dead.
How do you cultivate a desire to attain it, if you’re not allowed to contrive any semblance of an idea of what it is that you’re straining for? It irritates me how little desire I can muster for the things I’m supposed to desire. But I do still have the desire to keep studying, because there’s a narrative I can follow and that is entertaining. I know this is not entertainment, but I don’t want to lose the desire I do have.
I listen to the videos and the suggested reading during my work day, and I read the Zohar before bed, because I read that I should do that. Do you think I should read some other specific thing before bed, and wait until some point to go back to the Zohar?
But there is something to grasp onto. You just need to remember that what you are reading is only about the connection in the group, in which the Upper Light is revealed. If you keep this fixed in your mind, you’ll be near enough to the Light, for it to work on you. This will not allow you to be confused and to materialize things. By materializing I also mean thinking the text belongs to constructs you already have in mind and heart. It’s precisely the dissatisfaction and impatience with this limitation that causes the right requests inside a person, for the Light to bring them closer.
The Zohar is ok sometimes. Shamati is indispensable – there’s no other book like it in all the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Hi Gianni, love those videos and readings. thank you!
Sounds like in Malchut we will experience a lot of terrible shame, will that disable me from living a “normal” life in this world? thanks as always
From the beginning of the four phase, the Creator had an intention to do good which in turn produces a pleasure (light) to be bestowed to a receiver(creature). And in turn produces a desire to receive that pleasure. If this is correct, my question is are we dealing here with feelings, emotions since both pleasure and desire I think are feelings? And if they are, there is a consciousness driving them????
1. Are we born in this world in that state of Hochma? And then are we going through the other stages( till Malchud) until we realize ( awakening of points in our hearts) to make corrections of our desires to achieve the equivalents of Form?
2. To climbing up to reach the equivalents of Creator are we going up to the roots with evolution of our desires through the feelings what you describe on each level?
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