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First of all, we’re all giving contentment to the Creator, and we’re at the end of correction. What’s missing is that we don’t feel any of that. Therefore, we need to feel and know that we are giving Him contentment. And until that enters my feeling and clear attainment, I can’t say that I’m giving Him contentment.
If I want a criterion by which to know that I’m not giving Him contentment, that’s easier. I’m not giving Him contentment if I’m not relating to Him and the friends as one, and aiming to give Him contentment through this.
The thought of heresy is from the sensation that there is more than one force governing reality, and there is no one on the spiritual path (let alone people with no connection to this path) who does not – in certain states – feel that there are multiple forces working on him at a time – as it’s written, “there is no Righteous in the land who does good and did not sin.” But the question is what I do with this multiplicity. Do I go with it and think like others do, or do I work to ascribe each and everything to None But Him, the singular Creator.
Hi Paul. I got an ordinary corporeal feeling of exhilaration due to the biological processes triggered by the cold. I didn’t gain any wisdom or awareness from it since wisdom and awareness of something above this world can only come as a result of a spiritual action. No corporeal action is more or less than any other corporeal action. Therefore, it’s merely an analogy for our spiritual work that happens in an entirely different arena.
Malchut was filled with the Light. After the First Restriction, it becomes Surrounding Light.
“A decision for the Upper becomes a law for the lower.” So, Malchut of Eyn Sof made the Restriction. If it was a decision for her, for us it’s an iron law.
Well, you can stop if you want, but since it’s already something you wanted to do, and in any case, all of society is encouraging people to not smoke and there’s plenty of data to recommend quitting, it is therefore impossible to say that I quit smoking for the Creator. An action for the Creator has to be one that I would not do under normal circumstances, and otherwise is against my desire. The only field available where I can do something I don’t already want to do and the action aligns with the Creator’s will, is in acts of love of friends in the spiritual group, especially since I have no business with them outside of the group. While with all kinds of other actions, it’s all distorted and unclear as to what is actually good, correct, and according to the Creator’s will: we can’t know.
