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Hello!
Tzimtzum Aleph is a restriction, a law. So we don’t receive any Light, here in Malchut. But we are still able to feel pleasure sometimes. Not only egoistic/corporeal plesures. We still love and care for our friends. We would still risk our lives to save another human being. At least some of us would.
Is it the pleasure from the animate level? And Kabbalah describes some other pleasure, which is unimaginable for me right now?
You’re right, the Restriction is a law, and so it would seem we’re able to breach it – that’s why ours is called the imaginary world. We’re convinced that we can receive. That conviction is what drives our lives. Later, the accountant will come and show us that we made all the wrong calculations. We did not receive, and if we would’ve aimed each moment towards the attainment of spirituality, instead of aiming at the mirage of reception we would’ve attained a true, beautiful, eternal life while still in this world.
You teach we spend our lives attempting not to feel shame. Currently, we see around us suffering of others. Upon seeing suffering, we desire to help but can’t (the sufferer needs money we don’t have, or a warm place to stay that we can’t provide, or a car to get a job that, again, we don’t have to give) or we don’t have an understanding of what would help end the suffering of another. Should we feel shame? A shame caused by the seeing suffering and NOT HAVING the ability to help? Or it this guilt, based on the fact that no matter how much we desired to help, we DID NOT help another.
Hi Cheryl,
Am I supposed to solve all those people’s problems? The Upper Light has everything in it, all abundance. Only it isn’t revealed, this ocean of abundance. But the Light is “the good that does good”. And the goal of Creation is for me to become like the Light, bestowing like the Light, instead of receiving, which is my nature. But we see that the Upper Light does not reveal to all, otherwise all these problems would be solved instantly. So, for me to solve those problems is not me being similar to the Light, then is it? It fills the whole of reality, and yet these problems remain. Baal HaSulam calls those who try to reform the world externally “world reformers” and points to their weakness as the Upper Light will not allow us to touch anything (“improve”) what has been created. After all, it is not that the world is broken, as it appears to me. Rather, only I am broken. Internally, I’m shattered, like I’m looking at some object through a broken lens, and so the object itself appear to be broken into pieces. Therefore, I see the singular, whole, beautiful reality as hideous. Really everyone is connected, whole, abundant. Only I need to reveal this, and that revelation is called revealing the spiritual world. So, on the one hand I need to relate realistically to things, because this imagination is real for me still, and on the other hand understand that I will not be allowed to “fix” anything in that shattered picture I see because nothing is really broken. I’m approaching these shards trying to fix them and they stand, whole, already adhered as a single abundant entity. Only I’m projecting onto everyone my shattered perspective. Thus, all that remains to do is to correct my perception. And the Upper Light that we draw during the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah enables it.
So if i practise Kabbalah, and focuses on our internal worlds, during that correction while operating in the corporeal world, do we have to be careful of the impression we give to the outside world? Do we live to fix the given external problems or we just fix our perspective since the external world is a state from our internal state of spirituality that needs fixing? Thus if we have to becareful of the impression we give out, we remain in mysterious to the external world so to avoid evil eyes?
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