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But this is an in-person event. Unlike the Retreat, it is not a hybrid or virtual event.
We’re studying for the Reforming Light to work on us and change our nature, from reception, thoughts of self – to bestowal, thoughts of the Creator, of what’s outside me, which is the same as the Creator. We don’t DO anything. The Creator does and will do all the deeds. But we have to try everything, to draw the Reforming Light upon ourselves: study, conventions, work in love of friends, dissemination. Because without all kinds of efforts, actually I think were I to truly invest, I would soonafter reach bestowal. In other words it’s in my power to reach it; it’s just that I haven’t decided to really try yet – not really really try. But I’ll get around to it one of these days, and I’ll reach bestowal. This is what each one thinks deep down. That’s why he has to first try with all his might to reach love of friends, to cause that in the friends. Then he will have a true prayer and the Creator can answer that. When one asks for help before that, he is not so sure that he needs the Creator, because he could reach it alone if he truly wanted to. It follows that his request to the Creator is a lie. And the Creator knows one’s lies before the person himself even thinks of the lie.
Of course these discernments are past the Machsom [barrier]. We can’t imagine what they are, can’t be explained what they are, in our state, with our brain and heart. They’re impossible to attain – meaning beyond what we can imagine as possible. And in truth our only hope is with a group. Because the level of suffering one that only MIGHT bring a person to want to leap out of their own skin and live only beyond it, in others, is something not only sufficient only in some very unique torturous situations but on top of this depends on the root of the soul. So, that’s not a method, an approach one can adopt: I could never willingly subject myself to such plight – and I might not have the right kind of soul for that. And there is in our times a much easier and certain way: the love of friends.
But there’s a lot of work and advancement one can go through before getting an actual ten. But not to cross the Machsom, which is not something easy that will happen from today to tomorrow. Billions of inner transformations have to take place first. Our job is to go through those as quickly as possible.
Sure, it’s possible, in theory. It happened in rare cases such as with Adam HaRishon, Abraham, Moses. But you should read the section of this article I’ve highlighted, and come back with any further questions. He tells us the problem:Â https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/CeULdtUD?srchstart=Attaining+the+Wisdom+There+are%3A%24%3A57779&srchend=and+happy+are+the+rewarded%3A%24%3A64279&source_language=en
1, 2, 4: I don’t see this matter as historical. To the extent that it is historical, the Creator did it and no one had a choice. Cain and Abel are two forces within everyone. Abel is a relatively good path. And Cain is a tougher path, one who believes that everything can be achieved by force. So they quarreled among themselves. All this is inside a person. Cain prevails, and that’s why humanity looks as it does now. This inclination to force, and to think we’re strong enough to do something, comes from these forces – also envy. The only difference is in the implementation of this envy. Cain’s implementation is forceful while Abel’s is diplomatic and peaceful. That is, envy also came to us from the collision of two forces. That is why all these periods are called forefathers. But we should only look for these forces in us. It’s not that we’re paying for something we did or someone did wrong; it’s that these forces remain in us in an uncorrected way, and we don’t correct them.
2) There’s something called “the book of Enoch” but it’s not that book that they dug up. That’s why Kabbalists pay no attention to it.
Rav spoke like that, but also said he didn’t want to confuse us with something further on, which we’d discover. We didn’t do step one yet, to try to live in the intention. But it doesn’t mean that I can float above this world or watch the movie of life as if I’m not in it. Maybe that would be nice for some of us, but this work is quite the opposite. Movie-watching is about the most passive reception of pleasure one can think of, whereas being the director of the movie is a very hard (but very pleasurable) job – and our work is more like that –Â the director’s level of all-consuming involvement, attention, activity – if we need to both navigate this world normally and manage the intention. If the viewer lets the movie wash over him like water, the director personally manages the movement of each and every particle of water.
