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I need to make my entire desire and all my thoughts be only for the sake of the Creator (and the friends are His representatives). The opposite of now, where I think just the minimum necessary for the Creator, while mostly I think about myself (far more than is necessary) – this needs to flip upside down.
No, but you already understand that you’ll feel you’re missing something big. A career is a must, a foundation for life in this world; a family is also part of the system of this world. It works against you, but in a beneficial way – as it is said that a wife is “help against him.”
It’s fine for “getting the general idea” of something across (if there’s any value in that (?)) and for specific use cases for placeholder-type things that it’s good not to waste time on.
Since the only point of us interacting ever is to exert effort with an intention behind it, I’m adamantly opposed to having AI produce anything for friends in the group. Also, while AI generations are satisfying for the one who generates them, they’re quietly hated by those who receive them. Imagine I just set up a program that AI generates nice text message responses to anything my wife sends me! If I love someone, I craft each word, especially according to how I feel that person, directly from my heart to theirs, and then my words are not words but a direct pipeline between our hearts. And that’s what a Kabbalist’s writing is, a transmission from him to us, and he constructed this pipeline, which, if AI remixes it in any way, it’s no longer a pipeline, but a word salad of seemingly Kabbalistic ideas. Thus, an AI summary is no longer a source. You’ve heard that one can’t even change a comma in a source text; so a summarization is complete destruction.
What I do use AI for is to create things that you just need to quickly fill with something. For example, I’ll create a Kabbalah Explained Simply thumbnail for YouTube – because the art is irrelevant as the art on the cover of a physics textbook is – and you can’t post a video without a thumbnail. I’ll also use AI to generate a translation if there’s no choice, in which case I tell it to “translate every word, faithful to the original.” I use this to reference what ‘Rav said’ during the lesson later on, while as I’m listening in Hebrew I’m aware that the AI is generating distortions. In short, it’s not Chaim Ratz, but a no-other-choice-solution.
In the ten, we specifically do not share intimate details about ourselves but only inspiration toward the path. They need only this from each friend, and each friend cannot advance toward the goal (adequately quickly to reach it during this lifetime) without participating in such a system.
I delved into my dusty archives and unearthed a congress songbook that features it:Â https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HUyCIi_N9kEk1B-al3Nl2LHJExo5NhfAIDwm486XYgk/edit?usp=sharing
