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First, I’m not in the state of Abraham (which is attainable for a person) to be able to talk from there, but we’re in a system and the laws universally apply – like gravity. But different particles – toward this system we’re like particles – ascend according to their relative mass, called Aviut (coarseness). Special souls like Abraham have a lighter coarseness alongside a great Point in the Heart. One is subject to the conditions of the generation in which they are born, which comes out like a wave – and then there’s the unique root of the soul. So, there are those such as Adam, Abraham, Moses, Rashbi, Ari, Baal HaSulam that have conditions that, yes, they’re special. But the laws are there, above each one, and each has an opportunity to attain within their provided conditions.
Depends what we’re calling a descent. If it’s a descent in my good feeling, then it could be that the more I work toward the Creator through the friends, the more I feel my empty vessel. After all, on the way to the goal I need to reveal an empty vessel because I need to be above it with a Screen. But right now I’m immersed in this vessel. I don’t enjoy the feeling of being peeled off from it unless I’m in the friends. If I’m integrated in them, I can watch what happens to “me” in third-person.
Otherwise, it can’t be that I work and descend literally. This article is related: http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/32285?/eng/content/view/full/32285&main
The problem is to know what Teshuva is. If it’s an action that I imagine I can do outside of a group of ten, then it’s not Teshuva. Even then, it’s not the same as drawing the Light from the books of Baal HaSulam and Rabash.
There’s a very complex system over us, so we can’t make it simple like that. But the principle is that we’re shattered. In that shattering, we feel bad. Doesn’t matter in which form because it will come in a form that we’ll feel it, according to our vessel. If we move toward connection, the Light works and corrects the shattering. The place I can actually move toward connection is in a ten. Well, actually even listening to those podcasts you mention is in the direction because they move a person out of the natural thoughts of themselves.
No, the texts of Kabbalah don’t typically have what are called Tagin and Nekodot. They’re not important because one who attains the letters attains them with these additions and therefore doesn’t need them to be written. Similarly, one who attains spirituality attains it in the forms of the Hebrew letters. So, he doesn’t necessarily need to already know Hebrew. Theoretically, one could attain the letters, words, sentences the way these letters emerged to begin with, which is by Kabbalists attaining the spiritual worlds and discovering it was possible specifically through these forms. Not through the external appearances of the letters, of course, but there are inner movements that we are not familiar with that these letters represent.
Of course, you’re welcome to learn Hebrew, but no, it’s not even in the top ten things a person must do first in order to attain spirituality.
