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Good discernment. The aim is interchangeable while we’re in English. But let’s say there’s you aiming, and there’s also the Kavana (intention). And that’s something from Above. The real intention, that is, for the Creator, comes from Above. After we show that’s what we want.
Hi Kristin,
It just depends what I do with the descent and how long I stay in it. If I leave the work, leave the group, leave the Creator, fail to say “There is none else besides Him” – these things throw me to the lengthy path of pain by which I’ll gradually return, along similar pathways by which I originally came to the wisdom of Kabbalah. The ego likes to take credit for the evil instead of ascribing it to the Creator because then I escape the work (“It’s the fool who sits and eats his flesh”). If instead I quickly ascribe everything to Him, and run every time toward bestowal, this will be a much faster path, years and years faster.
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.
