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Exactly right. There is an order of correction, and heavier souls depend on the correction of lighter ones.
Hi Deborah,
They raise a request to AVI. They want to receive the Light in their place. Because they think they will be able to receive the Light in order to bestow. They end up being wrong. That leads to the Shattering. That’s why now we’re in a state where such reception is no longer allowed. Meaning, I would like to receive goodness as I am. I’m not allowed to. I’m allowed to rise to the Upper World, meaning to become like it in quality, and there I can receive the Light. That’s the correction you might be alluding to, that in other states there is not just a request for the Light to come down to me where I am, as I am, but rather the lower has to clothe the Upper – meaning attain Equivalence of Form with the AHP of the Upper.
That’s part of the plan, Sauli. Learn and enjoy, and in the Young Group you’ll start soon there will be endless opportunities to bestow. And you’re already helping the environment more than you know.
Good questions!
1. The Creator created everything in the plan of Creation – both the cascading of the degrees and worlds downward, and the way those degrees would be attained from below upward. However, the names are according to the way the Lights enter the Vessel that the Creator created. The Kabbalist doesn’t have a choice about what to name spiritual things, and a Kabbalist who came later to the same degree would discover those things and name them the same names, even without hearing them from another.
2. The spiritual root of Tzimzum Alef (1st restriction) is Shame. The Screen is over all of my desire, and having a Screen means not using my desire in order to receive. The test is that I would be just as happy not using this desire, but I need to use it because there is a demand from the outside, thus I need to use it in order to bestow. However, over the basic pleasures of our world, I do not need to make a calculation. They are not regarded as pleasure. It’s such a tiny reception that it doesn’t count as reception. It’s like we don’t consider a cow eating grass as reception of pleasure. The correction is not over these basic necessities, which are considered neither praised nor condemned.
3. The best desire to work with to please the Creator, and the first one that one has any chance of using, is only the spiritual desire, the Point in the Heart, to nourish it as much as possible. The Creator wants just this and does not agree to any other gifts that a person might wish to bestow upon Him because the whole spiritual bounty that He wants to bestow on us depends on this.
4. It is possible to feel Ohr Makif but we don’t detect it yet because Ohr Makif is what is left outside of the Vessel when on top of the Vessel I have a Screen and Ohr Hozer (Reflected Light), and inside the Vessel I have Ohr Pnimi (Inner Light), and then I measure what I was not able to receive as Surrounding Light.
5. Spiritual Shame is something that hasn’t been felt since the Shame in the 4 Phases of Direct Light, and one can’t bring himself to Shame. We need to feel an adjacent property, positive envy of others who are going towards the spiritual goal, so that I will run towards it too. That’s why we need a group.
6. There isn’t a word of theory in the wisdom of Kabbalah.
7. I never answer this because there’s no need for me. We have Kabbalists throughout history who told us how they attained it and how we can too, and one more person who says they’ve attained it doesn’t add any credibility. That’s just one more person – who is much less respectable than great ones such as Baal HaSulam – that you need to believe in rather than check and attain it for yourself.
Best is to dispense with all these depictions. Like Rav said, try to feel, without too much imagination. It’s better not even to think of Keter as “crown”. It’s better I don’t know the Hebrew. The internal definition has as little to do with the image we have as do the ones and zeros that create the image of a crown on a computer screen. We just search for these concepts to the extent we can feel them in our connection, and to the extent that we can’t feel them we search for the Light to work and bring us to connection, in which we will certainly feel them, as they are all nothing but forms of our connection in the ten.
You can try everything. It depends on the effort and the request. You knock on the same door but each knock will be a bit different. The Light will shape these knocks. It’s in the direction of seeing them as great, pieces of my soul, chosen, worthy of my love, that I should abandon myself and exit into them, to the center of the group. I need to try to clothe the words of Rabash onto my heart. You can try a call chain where one friend calls the next and gives them the importance of the goal. Anything to shoot bullets of love at the heart of the friends. By that, I open their heart and mine.
