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We have very solid reasons to be confused here, but the real you is outside (what you currently believe to be) you. Your own qualities exist there projected before you as a whole world (and the entire universe). Precisely the Shattering is the source of the feeling that I’m independent of everything around me, and that they don’t belong to me. There’s another perception of reality where I feel every particle in the universe as I feel my own biological body now.
Hi Jj. That makes sense because you haven’t yet been given the opportunity to realize the work in the ten, which you’re learning about only in theory for now. In the Grad program you will get a 10, and there is this retreat if you would like to attend. https://retreat.kabbalah.info/
The Masach is more like skin, without which you can’t exist. Our skin is our most complex organ. According to precise calculations it must filter in only good and guard against all else. The Masach is the intention for the sake of others and the Creator together. It consists of Aviut (coarseness) and Kashiut (hardness). But there’s a lot more scrutiny to be done about where and how it arises. Because forming the Masach is what the whole path is about. With the Masach one can already explore the Upper Worlds.
It turns out each time that there is no contradiction, even though on that plane of logic you’re right. Baal HaSulam writes that it is not within man’s mind to be able to understand how this thing called Lishma can arise. Rabash says that it is similar to how a person who only tells little fibs does not feel that he’s a dirty liar. Only by the accumulation of many lies does he realize what a liar he is. For us, this means we need many lies, meaning acts of Lo Lishma, in a kabbalistic group. We need to try to realize the law of reality – love of others as yourself. We need to try even though we know it will be egoistic. Because the ego doesn’t regally agree with this purely theoretical assertion that I’m an egoist without a shred of good in me. But with many acts of Lo Lishma, meaning acts of love of friends that I tried to do purely, in bestowal, with the intention to give the Creator contentment, during this the Upper Light shines and shows me what a liar I am. And then I have a true request to the Light because I see that only it can help. Without a group to practice this in I have only tiny white lies and I can’t see the extent of my desire for self alone, and thus I can’t really need Lishma, and without a genuine need it will never granted. But when I really see that I’ve already exerted all I could to hold myself permanently in love of others with the intention for the Creator and I was still egoistic in this, then, that miracle that is beyond man’s mind to comprehend, occurs. That is we get a new mind, heart, understanding. The quality of the Creator.
Hi Erez,
first, this won’t be the last time you’ll find a contradiction in Kabbalah. In every matter there are three lines, and they’re not all spoken of at once. There are the two lines, and then the middle that decides between the two, is born out of them.
Lishma is a miracle, that is only the Upper Force knows how to do this to a person. The person has to try, but all the while he’s doing so with the expectation that the Light will do what it needs to with him to make his wooden airplane a fighter jet. He has to keep going “vvvrrrroooom vrrrooom” as if he’s flying, but by this the Light, so to speak, accepts that this is what you want. We don’t have the ability on our own to make the Reatriction, nothing. Only by the Upper Light can anything spoken of by Kabbalists be realized, except our efforts in the somewhat correct direction according to the advice of Kabbalists.
