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Good questions, Sarah. But the truth is that I can’t want to be like the Creator once I learn and feel what that means. I was built with senses that are innately at odds with that venture. So, it’s a fixed game. It’s known that I’ll believe this venture to be egoistic; it’s known that I’ll discover that it’s actually something my ego can never desire; it’s know that I’ll need to, thus, have a group around me that will inspire me to go toward this goal nevertheless since this is goal of life and I’ll have to do it eventually whether in a pleasant or unpleasant manner.
To your second question – no, the ego is as infinite as you think the Creator is. It’s a boundless desire commensurate with the boundless pleasure He wishes to bestow. So, we must only correct it so it can do so.
Thank you, brother. I’m going to both do as our teacher does in relation to questions related to what specific degree we’re on, and leave that for students to determine, as well as say that wanting to determine one’s state is a healthy inclination – though you’re right in that all my inclinations prior to Lishma are egoistic. But there’s a relative egoism that is spirituality-inclined – like how I’m able to do certain actions toward the friends and it’s certain there must be egoistic motivation since my Will to Receive will not run on an empty fuel tank. The healthy aspect of wanting to determine one’s degree is that I should always find myself, where I stand, in relation to what the Kabbalists describe. That way I’ll feel the gap and pray about it, that they talk about Upper Worlds, Lishma, loving others, bestowal – while I remain in such lowliness that an alternative computer tab can draw me away from these matters for who knows how long.
Of course I know you mean the question regarding specifically where in relation to the Upper Worlds I stand, and that I can’t answer. It is really quite complex. You can’t even really put it into a diagram. There are also degrees before the Barrier, which Kabbalists don’t write about because it won’t help us beyond that which Rabash writes – and even those have behind them spiritual degrees that are beyond our world. But at least those I can do something about, on the level I’m on.
Thank you, Matt. I’m happy you’re with us! This content itself has a lot of Light in it and hopefully, I only open my mouth and expose students to the source, which is Baal HaSulam.
Others are those outside myself. Except love means bringing them closer to the goal of life, the Creator’s goal. Meaning I need to become similar in thought to Him. Now I have a problem: I need to go according to people’s desire because you can’t love me by giving me kale if I hate kale. Therefore you can work on loving specifically those who have a desire for Kabbalah already. You help them, you come closer to love. That’s not love yet exactly, we’ll find out what love is later. But you demonstrate in the system of forces that you’d like to be like the Creator, you agree with His Plan, and you wish to serve Him.
