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He’s right. If I don’t get what I want, and I’m sure that I can’t have it, my ego covers it for me, concluding something to the effect of “we wouldn’t want that anyway.” That’s called, “One doesn’t lust after the daughter of the King.”
If I want something and don’t get it, but see it as reasonably obtainable, it shines for me in the future as Surrounding Light.
If I attain any desire, and I don’t have a spiritual Screen already, a short-circuit occurs between my gaping desire and the Light (pleasure) trying to enter like when the forces in a lightbulb connect without a filament. This is tragic because I’ve had to exert to obtain the pleasure, I’m now empty, but not only. My desire has doubled. I now have a double deficiency.
On the other hand, I’ve exhausted one in a finite (but exceedingly long) queue of desires I still hold hopes of receiving from. Of course, it would be better to jump to the work in the other direction, bestowal over reception – as this is a more pleasant way.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t philosophize about an outside quote but this one is apropos.
Hi Naomi,
Torah is from the word Ohr (Light). It’s the study of the Light. We need to study what’s adapted to our generation. That’s the writings of Rabash and Baal HaSulam. Once, they would read those you mention as we read about Partzufim, Sefirot: they knew for certain they were not stories, history; they were from a different Aviut (coarseness) of the soul. We’re from the coarseness of Level 4, related to Malchut, and thus the Light we need, for it to affect us, needs to be much greater. These again are only the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash – and other writings that contain their commentary.
Some examples of other things that might intermingle with and spoil the prayer include literally anything that is unrelated to connection for the sake of revealing the Creator. For now, that’s whatever you’re able to include; but later you’ll see that everything in the world gets included in the correct prayer.
It could sound similar. But that’s only in external words, disconnected from matter. The Kabbalah terms are such ”dark matter” that we can’t even formulate theories about it in our current brains.
It’s true that my definition of independence is not really independence; and another form that I don’t desire is true independence.
I feel helpless when all I can do is pray to a Creator that doesn’t seem to answer. It makes me feel like a slave to this world and the conditions He put me in. But this is the set up through which I become separate from the Creator and partners with Him. But completely not dependent on Him – that’s not something that can be in any reality.
Hi John,
The Kli is empty. That’s what we feel in this world, where I can feel relative fulfilments, in contrast to utter emptiness. It’s called ‘neir dakik” [thin candle]. Just to keep us alive. So, the Kli is empty, we don’t need to worry about that.
The goal of Creation is that the kli will be filled with the Light, the pleasure that has in it everything, all pleasures. The means is bestowal upon others because to be able to receive all the Light in a way that is not opposite to the quality of the Upper Force – which is bestowal – requires a correction in my desire.
Hi Douwe,
Kabbalah is the study of what we are in essence, behind the illusion that I am in a physical body and in a physical world right now. Every person is under this illusion, and needs to figure out how to rise above this illusion to the feeling of the true Upper World. So, you’re asking about a sub-illusion of this general illusion wherein I am debating whether to take my own life or have the doctor do it for me. Kabbalah defers on this matter to what is acceptable in society, and legal: the laws of nature are the Creator’s laws. But if you want to know what a Kabbalist himself would do, he wouldn’t allow himself to be killed before his life ended naturally. By doing so I would miss a great correction that will then be awaiting me in a future incarnation. But this is not advice for everyone; it’s just the way one who has perception of the World of Truth would behave.
