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There are many interpretations to all that. The main thing is: we should exert to ensure that the friends will have something to come away from the assembly with, so that the spirit of connection will live on in them after the gathering. That’s all.
Our essence is not our body, which is just a projection; our essence is Malchut, the desire to receive; and right now, it’s the Malchut that has been shattered. It’s mixed also with the quality of Bina, which is inside it; which is why once in a while one also wonders about the purpose of life: that’s the quality of Bina rising up. The quality of Malchut wants only to receive and not to seek the PURPOSE of receiving.
Above the Machsom, these qualities change places: Bina above Malchut, ruling it. That’s why it’s a different world.
There is no difference in the Light itself. What’s the sound of a violin? Nobody knows. A scorpion perceives it as some unpleasant pulses and vibrations. You hear it as music. Some other creature perceives something entirely different. So, we don’t know what the Light is, but in the vessel, in can be felt as Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, or Yechida; as Inner Light (ohr pnimi) or Surrounding Light (ohr makif). If it’s Inner Light, it means I also have Reflected Light (Ohr Hozer) because I can only receive Light inside if I have Restricted my vessel, so as not to receive the pleasure for my own benefit, and I only want to bestow. The Light of bestowal, which is the correction of Creation, is called Hassidim. The Light of the Purpose of Creation is Hochma. I can receive the Hochma on the condition that is, so to speak, clothed in the Light of Hassidim, meaning it’s received with an intention to bestow.
Mitzvot refer to a person’s exertion with their vessels (desires), while Torah refers to the force of correction and fulfillment that comes in response.
Yes. The soul is unrelated to the body. The body has no connection with it, except when the Point in the Heart awakens, one has an awakening to attain one’s soul. Before that, the body is just like any animal. It dies, and it’s as if it never lived. The soul is from before this reality came into existence.
I think it’s comparison between two things we don’t know. Crossing the Machsom, certainly people don’t know. The other, I think people don’t really know but imagine there’s something like that. But from the other side of the Machsom we can know all states this side of it – because there are nothing other than states on the way to the Machsom. Finding out which ones are fruitless and which serve that goal is all we’re all doing in this world. But it’s either two things we don’t know or two things we know too little about, like Tokyo and New York from a satellite pic: they look the same until you go in and see it’s totally different worlds.
