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In the Rosh, they calculate the max bestowal possible, and receive accordingly. It’s not that it’s a mistake, but the Light inside the Guf carries with it the attitude of the Creator to this reception, that while you calculated max bestowal and have bestowed, still the Light wishes to bestow more. Essentially, the situation illuminates the imperfection of the action taken by the Partzuf, though they aimed to bestow and bestowed. It’s imperfect because, nevertheless, there’s a smorgasbord of delights prepared, and we need to deny the offer. Say I come to visit you and Sagar, you prepare for me an amazing meal, and I take just a piece of bread from it. And I show ebullient gratitude and rave about the bread. So, let’s say we’re simpatico as far as the bread goes, but over everything else you prepared, there’s a lack of equivalence of form. So, this leads to further Partzufim, to attempt to give back to the Creator (by receiving) all that He has prepared. Limitations upon what’s possible are discovered because the truth is that the Creation is unsuitable to receive in order to bestow, in all its parts, until some more processes will unfold. But, since the law of spirituality is maximum bestowal that you can, with all your powers, now and not later, in Adam Kadmon they’ve done what they could, with correct calculations.
Mine is the order Baal HaSulam describes in Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and The Study of the Ten Sefirot. Now, if you studied somewhere else, it’s quite possible they confused the order because the writings of the Ari were out of order, being compiled by different people over centuries.
No, we can and should pray from every state. Why else were we given any state? Only to have to pray. The Creator doesn’t need all the states where we’re in control. The good state is when we need Him. I should walk around as a prayer machine.
There is a big difference in how we reach the goal though. The goal is predetermined because there can’t be something better than it: equivalence of form with the Creator. Given our nature, the changes we have to go through are also predetermined. So, it’s down to how we go through them – willingly, joyfully embracing the changes to come, or digging our hooves in, resisting. Darkness is that the next stage of correction nears, and I don’t want it. The Upper Force is bringing these changes over me, and I don’t appreciate it. If I start to feel Equivalence with this Upper Force, we’ll go together, and the process will be joyous, as well as quick.
In this state, that state, another state, we need to connect to the ten. If we really do it, we see that that was the correction. Each time, connection is the answer. The scrutiny of why to do it, how to do it, is how we sort our states, and turn them into spiritual advancement. Everything can be solved from the higher degree, and nothing from within the degree we’re on.
