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Hi Adelina,
A reader of the Zohar I see!
Hi Adelina,
A reader of the Zohar I see! No one explains it better than Rav Laitman I suppose. Here you go!
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/2865?/eng/content/view/full/2865&main
Malchut that stands in NE is called a “lock,” for she prevents Ohr Hochma from entering the Partzuf. The entire Partzuf ends in Hochma (the Light can only be in K-H). Hence, it is merely Nefesh- Ruach. After all, in the absence of Kelim- Sefirot B-ZA-M, the Lights Neshama-Haya-Yechida are absent. Yesod de Malchut is the 49th gate, the maximum that can be before the end of correction, for Malchut de Malchut itself is the 50th gate.
If the key (Ateret Yesod of the Light) enters Yesod de Malchut (the 49th gate), then this Light lowers Malchut to her place, from NE to Peh. This Light opens the Partzuf and Ohr Hochma fills it. This is why Ateret Yesod is called a “key.”
Thanks!
You got me! You’re right, but we still have to use the word “spiritual” to basically describe something that is not absorbed or understood in our current state of “in order to receive”. So, even though we receive knowledge about something spiritual (this is our entire study in the preparation phase), it’s not attainment, meaning, there’s no emotional understanding.
The letters themselves express a spiritual action but what do we get from knowing that? It’s important to be familiar with what Kabbalists want to tell us but there’s no way of understanding/feeling anything until we attain it ourselves. It’s like trying to explain to a small child some advanced concept. Even though you’re breaking it down and trying to make it as simple as you can, the concept itself is just over the head of the child. They simply can’t grasp the concept of, for example, sharing your toy with others. You can explain it up and down and all around, in all kinds of ways how it’s more beneficial for everyone to share but they only see what they see on their level.
You’re not missing anything. In fact, the “question” or this deficiency in understanding is what we need to feel the need for the Creator. Receiving some intellectual answer in our corporeal minds actually relieves this need – puts out the fire/desire. I’m saying this just as a little tip for the future, and balancing the lack of understanding with the “answers” is key to continuing “straight” on the path. Otherwise, we will very easily want to absorb all the spiritual concepts in our worldly minds thinking we’ve attained something but in reality we’ve just put rocks in our pockets. You will always have unanswered questions, but as we progress on the path we can begin to arrange ourselves in a way that uses this deficiency/lack of understanding as a plea to the Creator for bestowal instead. We will never enter spirituality with our egoistic minds that see the benefit in bestowal because the ego will never see the benefit of bestowal.
We can say Bina wants to bestow and give to the lower ones, and it does this by using ZA but I don’t have an emotional understanding or a spiritual understanding of this. Certainly, the entire purpose of creation is for us to reveal everything, know everything, become incorporated with all of reality, and there’s a system in place to develop us and prepare us for such states. The light of Hochma is the light of the Creator which we were built to receive within us, just as long as it is “in order to bestow”. We need to arrange the quality of Bina to rule over us so we can use it to clothe in Hochma. You could say “understanding” is being similar to the Creator on that degree, the willingness. When you have prepared those vessels of bestowal, but do not yet have the ability to bestow, this is when Hochma is given and this is attainment/wisdom.
Hope that helps, thanks!
Chris
Hey Jennifer,
I’m not 100% sure what you’re asking about here. The letters represent the ‘values’ of Hochma and Hassadim (from Bina). You could say the Sefirot that emerge one below another are due to the spreading of Hochma.
Attainment comes from the one who attains from below-upward. Meaning, Malchut needs to rise each time upwards through ZA to Bina.
It’s important to know what the letters are and where they come from, but to dive into them expecting to take something spiritual from it is the wrong approach. The letters represent the forces that ultimately construct all of creation – not something we can grasp at the moment. It’s not necessary to delve into all kinds of philosophies to try and understand something we simply can’t currently. The correct approach is to read these texts, build some kind of minimal understanding, basic foundation, and from there aim for the light that reforms to change our inner qualities to be similar to the qualities of the Creator. From there we can understand His thought and His creation.
Hope this helps. Thanks!
Chris
Hey mrc,
The wisdom of Kabbalah defines “body” as the general will to receive. In our world the physical body is just a temporary and necessary means to disconnect from adhesion with the Creator in order to return to adhesions but independently and consciously.
There’s nothing “bad” the way we think of it today. “Bad”, according to Kabbalah only refers to its role in pushing a person away from the Creator, yet with the intention to ultimately bring them closer.
Thanks!
Chris
Hey mrc,
Whatever we sense in reality, this is the Creator. Pleasurable – the Creator. Not pleasurable – the Creator. Good and bad, that only depends on a person’s degree. Good can be pleasurable to my will to receive or, if it’s more important for me to give pleasure to the Creator instead of receiving it – then we are in equivalence of form.
A person enjoys this world and its pleasures until they no longer fulfill them and the search begins to find other pleasures. It’s like a child who enjoys a toy car to play with until they grow up and that’s no longer something they want to play with and instead, they have a desire for a real car.
Thanks!
