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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.
By the time a conflict arises corporeally, I already have to provide a regular corporeal answer. The question is how do I get ahead of the problems, so that I’m moving towards the spiritual goal faster than the Light is operating to push me to the goal? I need to run ahead towards it faster than the whip, which is raised in the air.
Once it’s corporeality we’re talking about, the approach is to internally ascribe all things as arriving in my experience from a single Upper Force. And with that, I also need to act normally, according to what is considered normal in the eyes of people.
Hi Shane. It’s neither 🙂 ZON raise MAN – so it is their MAN (prayer/request) that rises. And this is also considered that they, ZON, rise. This is why it is said that “ZON rise for MAN to YESHUT”.
The problem is that I need to learn what bestowal is. I have to build the ability to be in that. The best starting point is to try to be in There Is None Else Besides Him in everything one does. You can read about what that is, here: http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/31686?/eng/content/view/full/31686&main
Hi Mary,
There’s no such thing as suppressing my desires, and you’re correct that it won’t work anyway. A desire is a desire – it can’t be destroyed. Other desires can be made more important such that they diminish the importance of another desire. So, it remains as it is but I have atop it some other, more exalted desire. I need to try to make my spiritual desire more important than all physical desires, and then I will see that this is the key to the intention that I would be able to add to all my desires. This is way more serious and dedicated a study than it might sound at first, as this is the entire wisdom of Kabbalah and all that we’re here in this world to do.
About your specific corporeal state, there’s nothing to say because corporeality at that level has its own laws, only some are wilier than others. For example, do I need to change my behaviors to suit what I perceive to be their ill-at-ease with my modes of interaction? I don’t have to bend to their will. BUT – if I’m in the workplace, I’d be well-advised to consider doing so nevertheless. If I’m with my family, I’m basically in my own bathwater – whatever mess I make there, I’m in that mess. Same principle to a lesser extent on my street: If I throw trash over the fence at my neighbor, they will probably do it back to me. So, this world has its own laws. Some people understand them better than others, but they are certain laws as much as the laws of atoms and anything else. Kabbalah doesn’t help in that area of what is basically just “street smarts”.
Kabbalah deals with the level of intentions where if I have correct intentions then my actions will all be correct and perceived as such by those around me. However, changing the intention is – again – the entire wisdom of Kabbalah rather than being something that I already have in my toolbox to be able to do by a superficial thought process.
