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There are many degrees of the Sitra Achra because against every action there is an off-ramp into some twist into self-reception. The real study of this is just in trying to always aim through the friends, to the contentment of the Creator. Then you inspect all the different ways it’s not quite so. And then you have to re-aim. And then the Light works, and squares your intention more closely upon the right aim.
If you want to hear as much as Baal HaSulam wanted to share about this, it’s in Talmud Eser Sefirot, part 1. In his notebooks, we saw that he was well aware of the principles physicists of the time we’re coming upon – but this is what he saw fit to tell us.
Hi Ed,
There’s a word in there that is the same word for Greece and for the corporeal object used – and it doesn’t matter that corporeally the rise of the Hellenists came long after King David. It only shows that we can only superficially understand what Psalms is saying. Even Rabash would sometimes refer to Psalms and say, “No, this I don’t understand.”
Suffering does purify our vessel, but this path should really be joyous in every minute. So, if I’m suffering, then I need to check why. The only way there could be suffering that is beneficial is if it’s solely in my Will to Receive, while I feel myself as joyfully above it, truly that that is not me, as if it happens to someone else. I identify with the group, the Creator.
You should see Item 155 in Baal HaSulam’s Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot, which explains why we nevertheless must study  https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/OqZMFGHu#error=login_required&state=cc050b9b-0313-40d5-9d47-72498c258b04&iss=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.kab.info%2Fauth%2Frealms%2Fmain
