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In the end of correction even, everyone can keep their customs, Baal HaSulam writes. So we do make space sometimes for people to do so, when it’s clear that a good number of our friends might either want to celebrate or have family that might obligate them to.
There is the matter of when one knows who one serves, a greater load becomes a greater pleasure – and one can have infinite energy and strength, which aren’t limited. Importance is what’s in short supply.
There’s also the matter of different work above the Machsom (barrier).
There’s also the matter of, until the end of correction, Faith Above Reason is the patent by which it is possible to transcend another piece of the Will to Receive, and reach bestowal.
If you attained all 125 degrees, this world would disappear. But – few Kabbalists have attained all those degrees. And, there are some big surprises along the way.
What you said, that they knew they attained it because others saw the same reality and wrote about it, is a feature of attainment that may lend credibility for those who are below the Barrier to the spiritual world. But that’s not how they know. It’s more for the reasons I describe above and because there is a world of roots for everything that happens in our world, and they see this world of Causes and how the results traverse the Four Worlds to finally land in our perception. As opposed to our world where we literally have no clue why things are happening, and the cause and effect relationships we ascribe are utterly illusory.
You have about four classes per week live with other students, in the grad program. That will have to do for the next couple months until the next young group starts. We don’t have a chat because we don’t want to create interaction that is simply so, but only once we know why and how we’re interacting so it will be purposeful. Otherwise it will quickly run according to our regular nature, and that will be unbeneficial.
Without Yod and the rest – I need to worry all the time, “Am I coming closer to the goal now or not?” If not, then I’m distancing without knowing it. If I worry about this, I replace what I’m usually doing, which is like a bird pecking around for food, in every second having to be filled by one pleasure, another, and another.
You won’t have proof; instead it’s like my teacher was told when he asked his teacher, he was told, “You won’t get an insurance policy, but you’re free to go out and search for another teacher.” Kabbalists are uninterested in providing proof, and they don’t care about a student’s doubts. The door is open to come, go, and return if you wish, and to leave again.
But to give an answer, how do they know? They know. It’s maybe like how when you awaken from a dream, you know this is the real world, and what you thought was, certainly wasn’t. And let’s say that you awaken again, and discover another realer world. Then you are sure that there will be another and another real world, each more solid than the last, as your awake world is qualitatively more solid than the dream, though you always feel where you are as the real. Except the analogy is inexact when it comes to spiritual attainment. There, the reality of it and all-inclusiveness of it, and the certainty that this is the world of Truth, is certain. And we only don’t understand this because we have never felt truth, as we swim in falsehood like one who was born under the sea and so doesn’t know he’s wet. That’s why we think there can be parts of the truth that can be attained, and could be divided among methods, people, paths. There’s no such thing in reality. On the contrary, one who attains the Creator attains the same, One, whole reality – with Partzufim, Sefirot, etc. — that all others, in various times, attained. The same world. There is no other world to attain. So, either you did or you did not. And really, the method of attainment can’t be really really different, since it’s a system of laws standing between you and the Barrier to that world. And you need to change, to adapt to them, to feel that Upper World. How many different ways are there to speak to a human in this world and teach him how to do this? Not many.
