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You’ll understand this from the bond with your ten. There’s just no spiritual existence outside of the ten, like there’s no human existence in less than a multicellular organism. The Creator doesn’t relate to you, this wisdom is not about you, you’re not considered until you’re spread like butter among your ten. In the center of the ten, there’s someone to refer to, to instruct. That’s why everything is so confusing. How does an amoeba best behave at the symphony, get a job, get married? Well, those actions aren’t relevant for amoebas. That’s why the stages of Kabbalah study are (1) learn about it (2) practice it in the ten (3) united with your ten you’re the created being that this wisdom is about, so then it becomes increasingly comprehensible and practicable. Now, at each degree, I’m again an amoeba that has to become multicellular. So, I have to sort out for myself what my work is as an amoeba. I have first to connect to my ten. I can do this from all my corporeal states since it’s the work in the mind and the heart.
It’s true the Greeks learned from the Africans. But Kabbalah originated a bit to the Northeast of Africa, in Babylon, and then moved back toward Africa. Babylon was a melting pot of peoples from all over, including those from Africa. So, certainly some of the original Kabbalists had dark skin. Kabbalists were not a certain race but a collection of different kinds of people who were only later classified as a people, according to their spiritual designation. Later, they moved closer to Africa, and some ended up all the way in Egypt. Afterward, they moved to what is now the land of Israel, and then spread out again, some living in Northern Africa, especially Egypt and Morocco. Egypt, Greece, and Israel are all neighbors on the Mediterranean sea – one could get from Greece to Egypt or Israel even in rowboat in about 40 days 🙂 – and at some point, in that region, the Greeks certainly learned from the Kabbalists – because at that time Kabbalists were willing to teach anyone who wanted to learn.
There is a true prayer from any state. We have to search for it. What can I ask for, from my ten, now? And then we have to turn to the Creator.
The right and true prayer isn’t natural, like one doesn’t long for a sixth finger. We have a kind of natural prayer in us always, since we’re a Will to Receive, but that doesn’t elicit spiritual results.
Nor is it natural to turn to the Creator, even when there’s something we want.
Therefore, we need to search for the correct deficiencies, which come from the others, and then turn to Him, for them.
Well, you know that I look down upon the Zohar from degree 125, so I can tell you…
No, but I look up at Baal HaSulam who writes in the Preface to the Book of Zohar where he writes that the Zohar relates to the world of BYA. If there are other books that relate to the worlds as they are in the abstract, so that they talk about the world of Atzilut in and of itself, the Book of Zohar only relates to the world of Atzilut insofar as the world of BYA clothe the world of Atzilut. That’s why it’s written precisely for us – because all the corrections are in the worlds rolling up like a carpet, clothing upon the world of Atzilut, and then our world disappears, since it’s no longer of use. So, the Zohar is really the book of the Final Correction.
