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Hi Martin,
I can make all this pretty simple. Adam is a spiritual degree one can attain, as it is written “Anyone can be as Moses.” However, there is a Root and Branch relationship between our world at the Upper World such that every root must at least touch its branch. Since there is such a degree as Adam in the upper system we attain, there has to also be somehow someway an Adam in our world. We don’t know how and shouldn’t try to imagine how this looked in our world because we can’t know with any certainty how it or any of the Biblical events looked. Maybe it was with only a few great people who worked in high quality such that they were as if in great numbers. We don’t know. But there had to be some kind of branch called Adam. His parents didn’t even know why they felt like calling him that. It came from Above to them.
1. It’s according to YOUR definition of thinking, directing your thoughts.
2. How they’re special, chosen by the Creator, perfect, at the end of correction in a perfectly connected state, how I envy their spiritually inclined qualities with which they are rich, how much I love or want to love them. I should keep asking myself too, “What else can I do to help the friends, given how they appear to me, reach the spiritual goal today?”
3. There’s always a decision point where I can either go in the direction of thinking of the friends or thinking about myself. If I choose the friends, I’ll be thrown out of there quickly. But if I choose myself I can disappear from spiritual thoughts for the rest of the day or even the rest of my life. But if I choose the friends, even though I’m thrown out, I’ll get the choice again later. My chances will be according to my decisions which are carefully looked at from Above.
Hi Kima,
First, the Creator hides Himself so we’ll have to do this because then our efforts will not be because the Creator already showed us how attractive He is. Everyone in the world would be dropping everything and running toward only Him. But what is the Creator? He is the quality of Bestowal. I hope you’re not disappointed 😉 He is the force of Bestowal that encompasses, holds together, and operates the whole of reality. In the ten, we need to demonstrate the importance of Bestowing so that it will become important, since for now, the Creator made it unimportant, diametrically opposite our nature. Then we’ll be able to reach it. We have to learn how to do this.
1) is not clear because we don’t have terms like mundane/vivified in Kabbalah. Meaning they’re English words that I don’t know how to render in scientific language. So, you’d need to clarify what you mean (and it’s good you asked me now, but when you figure it out you should ask Rav…you’re welcome to ask here too, of course.)
2) If you’re talking about the corporeal mind and intellect, that is what I need to rise above and in that sense it is the opposite side of the coin where the other side is Faith Above Reason/intellect/the mind.
There’s ten Sefirot of Rosh, ten Sefirot of Toc, and ten Sefirot of Sof. That has to be for it to be a Parzuf as much as a baby must have all of its organs to live. The desire has to be divided into three to be spiritual at all. That is, a part in which there is a calculation in order to bestow about every pleasure (Rosh), a part where the Light is received (Toc), and a part that for now is still in Restriction (Sof).
Hi Carlos, you’re combining together the process from and the process by which we rise from our world. Tzimzum Aleph applies to the process from above down after which all the worlds cascade. From our world we need to study and work with the wisdom of Kabbalah to eventually make the Restriction. Later there’s also something called a Masach (screen), which is an addition to the Restriction we make on all egoistic pleasures.
