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1) These are spiritual structures. But in our world you see the branches.
2) These are all desirable, spiritual states.
3) The spiritual world isn’t “like” our life and psychology; ours is the way it is because in accordance with spiritual roots, we feel good, and out of alignment with the root, we feel unpleasantness.
4) The Light to the lower ones is always through AB-SAG. Bina receives the correct deficiency from the lower ones, and with that, she can turn to Hochma, who turns to his Upper Partzuf, and so on.
Lishma translates literally to ‘for her name.’ We can say more generally, ‘for her sake.’ In the end, the important thing is the intention to bestow, to the Creator, through his vessel, which is the friends in the group. What Lishma really is, Baal HaSulam says, is not for the human mind to understand. It’s something wildly alien that it’s useless to try to imagine.
That’s what it’s about, in a way that you start feeling Him, knowing what He likes, and doing what He likes.
1. You don’t need to keep corporeal customs to succeed. You can think of Mitzvot as such: there were Kabbalists who attained the Upper World and saw that, because of the connection between Roots in the Upper World and their branches in our world, there are spiritual actions that, in the matter of our world, can be represented, as with a seal and imprint. Doing these actions could awaken the Surrounding Lights, depending on various factors.
2. It would depend on the intention, and the expectation for the Light to work. But there are other ways to draw the Surrounding Light. And many people do physical actions, but never attain spirituality, no matter how meticulously they keep them. See Item 155 in “The Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot”. https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/OqZMFGHu
3. Reward and Punishment refers to what is already happening to us. There’s already a punishment for not following all that Baal HaSulam and Rabash tell us we should do. It’s happening. But do I see this or not? Seeing clearly that there’s a reward for following their advice to the letter and punishment for not doing so, is called Reward and Punishment.
