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People who come to the wisdom of Kabbalah typically are not drawn to being social, even if for one reason or another they may act that way in some situations. Because a strong Point in the Heart specifically resists connection with others. It’s the point of singularity that is sui generis, has nothing in common with any other. But in the Kabbalistic group it can because there it has the goal of Creation to realize. It can tolerate this connection because this Point is actually an incomparably greater egoistic point which can only connect when the purpose of connection is nothing less than revelation of the Creator. It’s not that it can’t connect, but that it doesn’t have fuel, motivation, interest to do so until it finds this perfect context in which to do so purposefully. Other people also are egoists, and only connect with others for egoistic reasons without a shred of the will to bestow being involved in this inclination – only one without a revealed strong Point in the Heart can be motivated by reasons apparent in our world, while the Point in the Heart in this respect works against the person in this world since this Point is only willing to work for the spiritual reward, which it is drawn to because the spiritual world is a billion times greater than all the pleasures of this world combined. Of course it still resists connection, but that is because the revelation of the Creator has to be with two forces: the resisting force, the force of the ego that doesn’t want to connect, and the Point in the Heart that longs to return to its root.
The quality of Bina is a spiritual quality, the quality of bestowal without reception. It is a stop along the way to Receiving in Order to Bestow, which is not possible to reach directly. In fact, ones whole work needs to be to reach Bestowing in Order to Bestow, without reception, like Bina. Of course this doesn’t pertain to one’s corporeal life, to what one already is receiving. It pertains to an additional plane to the one we live on. What we receive there is something we’re not receiving already. We can’t receive it until we develop first this quality of Bina in relation to those pleasures. Does one feel void? Well, we feel void as it is, in our lives. We feel darkness, even in the best case scenario. Even what we call pleasure is really darkness because the contact with the pleasure directly, leaves us empty and bitter. And the bitterness from the accumulated experience and understanding that this is how it works, only increases. That’s why spirituality is a great addition to what we have, and in no way compromises it. Because we develop the property of bestowal, we are able, eventually, to receive in order to bestow. And, like I said, we have never actually received before, because the moment we come into contact with the pleasure, it evaporates, because we are missing the Screen required to receive.
Hi Mira,
How can you generate connection with those whose views are very dissimilar? You need to find a common point on which to build the connection. That works in all cases, but the true connection is built on the common point, which exists in every person but is not revealed in every person yet. This point longs for its root in the Upper World. This point is eternal. So, while I have some passing common interests around which to form some corporeal connection with those around me, the true connection and one that is eternal and through which it is possible to reveal the Creator is through the connection with others who have this revealed Point in the Heart.
I don’t see where you found that quote, but it’s ok. I don’t know what an action of conscience is, this isn’t typical language in the wisdom of Kabbalah. I know that no inclination that comes from within me can be in the direction of bestowal, since bestowal is the Creator’s quality, and He imprinted me with the opposite quality: receiving. So, it’s certain that anything found in the ocean of my nature is wet, i.e. no matter what is found in me is reception. But I can take the advice of Kabbalists, and just my involvement already makes it “wet” too. However, there is a force in nature that, when I try to go in the direction Kabbalists advise, which is towards connection with others who are making similar attempts (studying Kabbalah also), this force, called Reforming Light, corrects me. And by correcting me towards them, I am also corrected towards the Creator, and then He is revealed.
It’s that no two can be alike, because that’s the nature of a perfect system, that there is no redundancy, but everyone is unique, special and essential. Obviously it follows that no two are equal. And men and women are just one example of this.
