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GE and AHP are the names we use to divide the Ten Sefirot, especially when we climb back up the degrees that cascaded from Above downwards. Because they clothe onto each other in a special way, so that there will not be another Shattering. So, in AK we don’t need to think about GE and AHP yet, although the Partzufim in AK do clothe on each other in a special way, and in doing so, they build that part of the ladder of degrees that we will later climb up.
Taamim (tastes) are the flavors felt from the Light, and Tagin are the impressions left over from it. For example, you stayed at the Ritz in Paris and an impression was made from all the fun you had, but you’re not having that fun now, but you retain the impression. As you run out of money and can lo longer eat at the buffet, can no longer do other things, and finally can’t afford to stay at the Ritz anymore, this can be compared to the Light exiting the Kli because Light is pleasure, only here the pleasures are spiritual, and thus far greater than anything we imagine. Then, you have Otiot, which is the impression of what it was like as you ran out of money.
The dinner mom used to make, which you now make a show of enjoying even though you don’t really desire this food anymore is the correct example 🙂
It’s probably one most of us, it turns out, are not that familiar with, although we can imagine it.
This example represents one having completely overcome all the desires in them, so that they have no interest in fulfilling any desire that does not bring them closer to connection, to the goal of all of life. Therefore one has to reawaken this desire for the sake of using it to enjoy for the sake of the Host – and not that I would like to have enjoyed anyway, whether the Creator is revealed or not.
Other than that scenario we have no actions in our world that are close to bestowal. Except what you mention, to agree with what the Creator sends, is less opposite to bestowal than internally being dissatisfied which is to effectively curse the Creator.
Thanks, Jj. There are many, many Lights and different kinds of each Light, but the general names are Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida. Ohr Elion (Upper Light) is a general term, like Creator or Upper Force – because there are more specific terms for the way in which a person attains Him, as it is said “every day I have a new Creator”. But it’s useless to get confused with all those names that others attained and which have all kinds of associations but which we don’t yet attain at all. Ohr Yashar (Direct Light), though it is certainly that Upper Force that shines always, we use as a term to describe the Light that shines always but which we are already mounting a resistance towards, such that there would be Ohr Pnimi (Inner Light). There’s Light all around me now, but it’s impractical to call it “Direct Light” because I have no Screen, etc.
Hi Jj, This refers to either a state in Eyn Sof, after the 4 Phases of Direct Light, or a very high spiritual degree when one is awarded a similar state from below up. Because we, in our current state, lack all the components that give rise to Shame in Malchut. Shame resulted from the feeling of the Creator (we lack such a feeling), that He is the bestower (of course we also lack this sensation), that there’s no universe and other people like we feel, but rather it’s just me, the receiver in order to receive, and Him, the force of pure love an bestowal. In fact, we lack even the sensation that we are truly receivers through and through, which is the only thing that is called ‘evil’ since it is opposite to the Creator’s quality. Therefore, we have no reason to feel shame, and we also can’t move towards anything that might cause that sensation to arise. In fact, we live our whole lives only in order to avoid that feeling, due to the entire reality we feel being the result of that high root of spiritual shame. So, we have to begin gradually, in a group, to begin building the inner discernments, to approach gently the concept that There Is None Else Besides Him filling the whole reality. It starts only as an axiom, but later we’ll attain it, when we can handle it. And still later, in a pleasant way, we’ll discover what actions we need to do back to Him in order to not feel shame per se, but to use the shame as a guide-post that helps us navigate only to use our desire in a form that will be equivalent with that all-inclusive singular force of bestowal that we reveal.
No, those pleasures the Creator isn’t interested in. He didn’t create this world for you to enjoy. It’s only to develop you. Like how a good parent only provides the child experiences with an eye to his development. Also, the period of babyhood for humanity is ending, and so there are no more states on the horizon that we would’ve called “good”. That “good” which you like a small child call good, like when a child says he’d eat cake and watch tv all day, the Creator hates. The Creator is only interested in His definition of good, that each moment we’ll move closer to bestowal, and that means, first, closer to the connection with others that leads to connection with the Creator. It’s actually a restriction on the desire for any self-benefit one can imagine. Later, later, and so much later that it’s useless to bother with it right now, there is the opening of the desire (and those are much deeper than any one can now even fantasize about) and the desires are all used in order to bestow but that’s as useless to think about now as talking about one’s next next next incarnation. One has first very serious devoted work in connection with others according to the advice of Kabbalists.
