[Esther]

Hi,Could you please distinguish between bestowal and love.  They both seem to refer to the same idea

[Esther]

Is bestowal the expression of love? What discernment is there between love and bestowal or is it the same?

[Esther]

This describes what happens to a person when they die -from a novel

At that moment, there were 3,​147,​740,​103,​497,​276,​498,​750,​208,​327 atoms in her body. Of her total mass, 63.7 percent was oxygen, 21.0 percent carbon, 10.1 percent hydrogen, 2.6 percent nitrogen, 1.4 percent calcium, 1.1 percent phosphorous, plus a smattering of the ninety-odd other chemical elements created in stars.Released from their temporary confinement, her atoms slowly spread out and diffused through the atmosphere. In sixty days’ time, they could be found in every handful of air on the planet. In one hundred days, some of her atoms, the vaporous water, had condensed into liquid and returned to the surface as rain, to be drunk and ingested by animals and plants. Some of her atoms were absorbed by light-utilizing organisms and transformed into tissues and tubules and leaves. Some were breathed in by oxygen creatures, incorporated into organs and bone.Pregnant women ate animals and plants made of her atoms. A year later, babies contained some of her atoms… Several years after her death, millions of children contained some of her atoms. And their children would contain some of her atoms as well. Their minds contained part of her mind.And the individual atoms, cycled through her body and then cycled through wind and water and soil, cycled through generations and generations of living creatures and minds, will repeat and connect and make a whole out of parts. Although without memory, they make a memory. Although impermanent, they make a permanence. Although scattered, they make a totality.

So if matter is only desire, the dissolution of our bodies when we die diffuses those desires into other beings and so we are all One.  So reincarnation is a general reappearance of our desires diffused in the world,  and not a discrete new body having all our former corrections as is the conventional view of reincarnation ?

[Esther]

How would a Kabbalist view someone like Gandhi or Martin Luther King?  They were spiritual leaders who actively tried to apply spiritual principles to society.   Does the Kabbalist just accept society as being under the influence of the Creator and feel no obligation to advocate like Gandhi?

[Esther]

If there is none else besides Him, is there such a thing as an innocent victim?

[Esther]

So the Zohar is meant as a guidebook for those below the spiritual barrier?

[Author]

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