[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi AspiringAltruist,

That’s almost the entire work in the group so I can’t give a complete answer. A short one is that we need to become sensitive to the friends, so that we will learn what will inspire them. It’s an art. At the same time, we should always see them as the greatest of the generation, and envy them like a father envies that his son becomes greater than him while also wishing for this success (as opposed to wishing to lower him). This causes us to lust for the goal in the proper and required way.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

That’s right. Think of how open to all sorts of requests a parent is if they’re coming from their baby. The Creator accepts all our requests. If they’re correct they’re answered. If they’re not right, they’re still answered in the form of a correction. That’s why all we need is to ask and ask.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Good question, Sheila (sorry I missed this). Simple answer: with Lishma, the Intention precedes the act. Now, explore this and you’ll come to see the problem.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Zorica,

It’s in line, if you’re attracted to it, since it was written by holy Kabbalists, though it’s not explored much in our writings. As you know, it’s not that each excerpt from the ancient sources – such as the Siddur, the Talmud, and so on – finds commentary in Kabbalistic sources. Why? Firstly, those should be taken as-is, even though there are deeper interpretations we discover on the way. The Kabbalists wrote them that way, in that language, even though they could have written them in Kabbalistic language. The second reason is that their Kabbalistic interpretations may not relate to our zone of proximal development, even if they seem interesting to us. But we can still read them in a more literal way. The passages that Baal HaSulam and Rabash do want to put in front of us, they interpret, sometimes expansively, in their writings.

This post is somewhat related though:

https://laitman.com/2024/06/what-is-the-creators-name/

 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi AspiringAltruist,

It’s enough to think of lust as great yearning. It’s just that it’s tempered by the correct form of the other two. Yet it’s still yearning.

It’s true that the definitions are different. But what’s really unique is that opposites come together all at once.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

His weakness is that He created a creation that has to help itself by asking Him for help and He can’t do a thing if we don’t turn to him. And we can turn to Him except out of a need for connection between us. So you see what a problem He has.

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