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We’ll learn more, and then understand why everything in Creation funnels through only that. Except for the aim from outwards into myself, I have nothing else to correct.
Hi Michael,
The final manuscript of Zohar for All is in the works, and much of it is available for free on our site.
To your other question, what can I say? Kabbalists feel what stands behind the letters of the Zohar. They describe the spiritual world they inhabit. And therefore they know when something is missing, whether before or following the part that we do have. We don’t get a whole picture, in fact we don’t get any of the picture from the Zohar. We don’t feel the world of forces standing behind it. So, it’s ok that some of it is missing because we study it for the Surrounding Light that it brings upon us to correct us. Though it would be nice to have the additional volumes, I guess it was decided that what we have is enough, and if we’ll advance to where we need more, they’ll be uncovered.
Hi Sarah,
That’s correct, we can’t change anything in our world. It only seems to us that we change things with our will and actions. That’s because the depiction before me is a result of my inner qualities. So, if I want to change things in my world instead of changing myself, then I’ll find that no matter how much I do, nothing will change, except that everything will adapt to again await for me to change myself under even harder conditions. However, this depiction is only of my own uncorrected qualities. If I draw the Reforming Light upon myself through the study of Kabbalah, then my qualities change from reception to bestowal – even a little bit – and different, better world is depicted. So, it’s not that we can’t do anything. It’s that we need to know in what field there is something we can change, and in what field I can exert as much as I please but the efforts will all be in vain.
No, what it is is that the Desire cannot stop existing as all parts of it belong to the Final Correction where they all need to be fulfilled with the Upper Light. The ego is the intention to receive, and it’s eternal too, except it’s form becomes an opposite expression – to bestow. It’s not worried that I’ll die, in fact it’s job is to waste my days until I’ll find myself in a casket, so that going against its councils I’ll choose to be more towards bestowal each moment. That ensures I’m getting there by free choice because each time the ego gives me a chance to see whether I need spirituality now, or I can wait another day; and then to see that when I wait, tomorrow won’t be any different. I’ll still have to overcome greatly and decide that now and only now is the time to attack the spiritual goal.
Hi Isoke,
If it’s an action that is not from Rav or explicitly recommended by Rabash (and there are practically no exercises set in stone about which we can say “Rabash says do such and such in corporeality” but rather we often do not understand at what level Rabash or Rav was speaking or writing) – so, if the ten is not in agreement, then it can’t become a permanent practice. Rather, connection Managers can determine an exercise for the day, and this could be one such exercise.
I did hear that tens should read our texts, and formulate a prayer from the center of the ten; and revisit the prayer, and renew it throughout the day. A prayer from the heart of the ten outwards is the best orientation. Only in special cases are we focussing on individuals. If you want more guidance, you can check the Rabash article, The Agenda of the Assembly.
