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  • in reply to: Ask Anything #365592

    Certainly to summarize and even draw for oneself. There’s nothing wrong with the fact that for sure I will have some element wrong. To have it all correct would mean some level of contact with the Light (or a prodigious memory, which as you know, we don’t value especially). Also, it’s probably somehow correct from your perspective, but I need to point out the potential flaw in it as I see potential to confuse others – especially as you made it so visually attractive.

    Hi Seamus, GE and AHP are another way of talking about the Ten Sefirot when we want to emphasize the clear division into the desires that can be used for Bestowal and those that can’t. For example, now I have just the beginning of GE, and that’s my Point in the Heart. Only in the activity toward it and toward others with a Point in the Heart I can work toward something spiritual.

    in reply to: Ask Anything #365581

    We need to try, in addition to seriousness, to be in joy, gratitude, and so on. One only advances in joy.

    in reply to: Ask Anything #365580

    The infographic has several mistakes and I’m also not sure about the practice related to graves, in fact it seems as something a Kabbalist would be especially disinclined to do (though they would visit a grave of a special Kabbalist) and I haven’t personally seen that in an authentic source. If there is some kind of documentation like that, we should keep in mind that Baal HaSulam warned in his letters against all of the spurious writings related to the Ari and his writings, in the form of either mistakes by students other than Chaim Vital who was the only one he permitted to continue his tradition, or by writers who wrote false things that were as-if about the Ari and the spiritual world but were falsified and not based on spiritual attainment of those things.

    All Kabbalists, more or less, experience the same phenomena, as Baal HaSulam says that one who has been to London can talk to others who have been to London and they know what it is. One of those phenomena is being above spacetime, above the body, such that dying is, as Rabash says, like throwing your shirt in the laundry at the end of the day. The question is whether one’s students can feel the Kabbalist as present just as much (and even more than) as before. That depends on the student’s agreement with, equivalence with, nullification to the teacher, up to the point of having a shared Masach (Screen).

    in reply to: Ask Anything #365149

    This is your calculation. I need to attend the retreat and I need to ensure that I ace my exams. Maybe you can attend some.

    in reply to: Ask Anything #365148

    That’s not a phenomenon that I recognize. In any event, the best is to always move forward – away from the desire to receive, more toward connection – and not to pay much attention to any phenomenon, even seemingly highly spiritual phenomena.

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