[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

There’s something to what you’re saying and you’re right, it will be resolved. But not in a few simple words can it be explained how right you are, that you only reach the Creator through the prism of our reality, and it is not that one can aim directly at the Creator. Because aiming at Him means aiming at equivalence with His attributes. And His main attribute is that He loves His Creation and wants to bring all its parts to the greatest good, which for now is something we can’t even imagine. So the wisdom of Kabbalah is the method of tying all the reality to one source and responding back, through that same reality, to the source of it all, the Creator.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Dale,

please ask questions in the Ask Anything section as I don’t always answer here.

The Machsom (Barrier) is tge concealment of the Upper World by the Creator, since I don’t know how to conceal it from my ego, the desire to receive with the intention to receive for my own pleasure. I would not be able to reveal only the Lights that can certainly be received with the intention to bestow. There is a flawless x-ray of my intentions that knows me through and through, much more than I know myself. When I develop what is called Masach (screen), the resistor to any pleasure that is not for the sake of the Creator, then this Screen conceals the Upper World from my ego and I reveal the Upper World above the ego.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Your desire, in that example, is simple: elimination of pain. A bigger pain becomes the center of my attention over a smaller pain. It’s a matter of quantity, not quality. That’s why it’s a simple calculation. But if we’re talking about differing qualities, then it’s not simple. Which is better: the world’s best burger or the world’s best concert. It depends which vessel I have. The Partzuf has 5 distinct vessels of utterly different quality. I can’t enjoy the concert in a vessel for food. By analogy, The Light of Malchut cannot satisfy the vessel of Keter.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Cameron,

You can find where Baal HaSulam writes this in The Teaching of Kabbalah and its Essence:

“You must understand the reason why all the great sages who followed the Ari abandoned all the books that they compiled in this wisdom and in the commentaries on The Zohar, and nearly prohibited themselves even from being seen, and dedicated their lives to the words of the Ari. This was not because they did not believe in the sanctity of the sages preceding the Ari; God forbid that we should think so. Anyone with eyes in the wisdom could see that the attainment of those great sages in the wisdom of truth was immeasurable. Only an ignorant fool could doubt them. However, their logic in the wisdom followed the first three languages.

Although each language is true and fitting in its place, it is not completely fitting, and quite misleading to understand the wisdom of Kabbalah contained in The Zohar using these orders. This is so because it is a completely different language, since it was forgotten. For this reason, we do not use their explanations, either the explanations of Rabbi Moshe de Leon himself, or his successors’, as their words in interpreting The Zohar are not true, and to this day we have but one commentator—the Ari.

In light of the above, it follows that the internality of the wisdom of Kabbalah is none other than the internality of the Bible, the Talmud, and the legends. The only difference between them is in their explanations.

This is similar to a wisdom that has been translated into four languages. Naturally, the essence of the wisdom has not changed at all by the change of language. All we need to think of is which translation is the most convenient for conveying the wisdom to the student.”

First of all, there are many religious people who greatly respect the Ari. Why there are some groups who don’t emphasize the Ari, and go to great lengths to deemphasize and even obscure Baal HaSulam, I’m not going to comment on even though it’s interesting. “One studies where the heart desires,” and I think that in those groups they study materials that are suitable for those who come there, while everyone more or less knows of Bnei Baruch, what we study, and has the opportunity to come here if they choose.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

No. There’s no such reality even close to what you’re describing. Malchut simply realizes that by receiving, since the Creator wants to give, if I receive, I become the one who is giving. It’s as if I take over the role of Giver.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

There are many here whose first language isn’t English. We’ll make an effort to understand you.

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