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Fun? No, look. Let’s give a corporeal example. Say, Zuckerberg was made to learn Greek, Latin, computer languages, etc. Is that fun for a teen? The fact that you gave him such surroundings and brainwashing to convince him that that’s the right thing to be doing… but “fun” would be something low level – video games, etc. But because of this effort over that which would have been “fun”, let’s say that now he’s the one having all the fun while those who took the low-level fun get to suffer in lowliness of all genres for the rest of their lives (even though, in truth, these are false values and no one enjoys – but just for the example). Our Will to Receive likes the lowest level, least effort things. Little pleasure, but close to no effort. Yes, it is willing to sacrifice grand achievements for the sake of not putting forth effort. Up to and including serious drugs. And I also don’t care that they’ll kill me in a few minutes (unless, like Zuckerberg, someone brainwashed me otherwise) – because that’s how the ego is built. It’s written that before one dies that angel of death comes with a drop of poison on the end of a spear, which one cannot resist, and it kills him. So, I’m built such that I’m a pleasure junkie, wanting pleasures to go into these different desires I was given. Now, the question is: were these, any, of my desires given to me for their fulfillment? Or, perhaps, I’m like some tribesman who found an abandoned (but operational) vehicle and instead of turning it into something I could chase my food with a game-changing advantage, instead, I’ve turned it into a place to sleep or something like that? Maybe, just maybe, all these desires in me have another, sublime purpose.
Especially when it comes to Kabbalah, because it is the path to the correction and perfection of the soul, it is important that only those with their own desire for it come to study. So, you’re right in not pressuring those around you and letting each have their own way. Any spreading of the wisdom of Kabbalah that needs to be, can happen through the changes that you’ll go through inside, which people around you will feel more strongly than any words you might convince them with – and in this case, they will feel no resistance to this influence.
If I plant some tree, I can see if it has come up a little from the ground. It’s similar here, except I don’t know what the tree should look like. But when it appears, it’ll be unmistakable.
Hi Carlose. Can Tifferet also be called Zeir Anpin? Yes. This is like how I might be called dad, professor, instructor, or husband – and all would be true depending on my relationship to the other person.
That perfectly describes the problem: to become free from what? I don’t feel that I’m more a slave than any imaginable and that this is sorrowful – by being ruled every second by the Will to Receive – and what might be were this not the case.
There’s more realization in Malchut than just that. But yes, in Malchut there is recognition of her relationship to the Giver that wasn’t clear in Phase 1. In Phase 1 the Giver was too much intertwined with her, like a candle in a flame that it’s as if, ‘hey, you’re a flame, I’m a flame.’ So there wasn’t room to see what I really am.
