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Hi Paul,
No, we get naturally the “screen” in our regular 5 senses. The retina in the eye, and so on. Those senses are also desires, even though we take them as “real” whereas we think desires are fluff, airy, and psychological. I have another desire that doesn’t have a screen over it naturally, and that’s why it seems airy and unimportant. If I had a screen on it, I’d perceive in that desire a spiritual world. I don’t get that from nature. I get that from serious efforts in the method of Kabbalah.
But our actions aren’t in vain, because of the fact that all my actions – which are supposed to yield pleasure – leave me with a great deficit on the scale, where on one side I have pain and on the other side pleasure: eventually I do the correct accounting and see that I pay an extraordinarily “unfair” price for the acquisition of these pleasures. With this deficiency, I go towards spirituality, whereas before, I did not have a deficiency for that. Until once is convinced that he must reach it, he doesn’t take it seriously.
Hi Tracey,
No efforts are a problem. If previously I thought I could eliminate my ego – and I investigated the possibility to an extent – now I know from experience that I can’t eliminate the ego. Then I have no desire. The desire is all that was created. I need to take my ego through a process of correction so that it will be used in order to bestow.
That’s the main thing we’re always working on. The purpose of Kabbalah is to build the sense with which we feel the Upper World as it does not come naturally as do the senses we’re born with. It happens through the Reforming Light that we draw during the study.
I think the strongest would be to decide with your ten to watch the lesson together one day a week, to start. And if it works, think about two days. And you can listen to every other lesson recorded.
Hi Matanah,
The 4 phases are the phases that the desire goes through as-is. The Partzuf is when the desire Restricts itself and divides itself into 3: a part it can receive in, in order to bestow, a part it can’t receive in, because in that part it cannot receive to bestow, and a part that is just used to decide if the rest of the desire can or cannot receive in order to bestow.
