[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Sorry I missed this, Joy.

Substance refers to the matter, and the matter is always the Desire, which is all that was created. Form refers to the form that the substance is in. Either it’s in a form of reception or bestowal. But either way, it’s still the desire.

The desire, as it descends through the worlds, acquires more Aviut (coarseness) and that is the Quality of the desire that changes, and gives it the different forms. Say you have on the animate level a lion, and on the vegetative level a dandelion (“coincidentally” named), and something else on the Still and Human levels. But it’s the same desire, only with more, or less Aviut.

 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The Creator understands our complaints, and yet He does not change. He says that I need to change, and then I will see that everything He did was good. I stay the same though, and in fact my Will to Receive grows more and more, and so I’m more opposite to Him, and so I see a worse world. It’s a very tough standard, that I have to be the one to change rather than expecting Nature/the world/the Creator (it’s all the same) to change instead of me.

Now, to change, I need as you said the Reforming Light. I can draw it a bit from independent study because while I’m absorbing these materials, I’m changing. But once I’ve pretty well absorbed them, then the main way I can draw the Light is by interfacing with others who are on the same path. That’s why in the graduate program students get a group of “ten”. I want to affect myself, move my brain cells around and succeed – I can succeed, but I need to do all that which I imagine doing in a self-help kind of way, I need to do all that outwardly, towards something outside me, towards this group. That’s the way the Light is drawn.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Translation: The number to remember is 620, which corresponds to the collective desire 620 times greater in quality than the created soul of Adam HaRishon. How is this expansion of quality manifested in the created world and in us?

Surely it doesn’t yet. After all, we are the broken parts of Adam HaRishon and no Light comes to us, because it’s a broken vessel into which no Light can stay. And that’s why we can only chase pleasure but never hold on to the pleasure. This vessel was broken so that when it becomes connected over the distances between us all, it will be 620x greater. It’s not because there are physical distances – that’s how we imagine it. But these perceived distances are representations of the internal distance between us. We have to skip over that distance by our internal inclination to connection with all the others. 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

I’m not sure what your question relates to exactly. But I’ll give an answer and you can re-ask if needed.

Maybe you refer to the idea that we need to play the state that we want to be in? This is seemingly the least serious thing, and yet it is paradoxically the most serious thing – it’s the only thing. To play a state you’re absolutely not in yet, but which exists in the program of nature in potential is to draw evolutionary forces from that future state, which exists whether we want to head towards it or not. If the forces lined-up to bring us to that future state come from behind, it’ll be unpleasant. This is the shape of everything going on around us today.

Now, we don’t have the insights to know what our future state should look like. That’s why we can’t get an insight, apply it, improve – as you say. The only really good future, and the future in which all the good that can be exists, is a future in which I learn what the system is like in which I exist in an interconnected way with everyone else. Meaning what my thoughts would be like then, what my feelings would be like, my desires, etc.

More towards connection with everyone will be good, and all that’s inside that state will be good; and less connected will certainly be bad.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Joseph,

All the above is normal. One who comes to Kabbalah is not attracted to connection because he has to realize connection only in order to reach equivalence with the Creator. You see, connection in which there is no benefit in this world whatsoever cannot be attractive. And that is why upon this connection it is possible to place the intention with which one reaches equivalence with the Creator; while in the types of connection I would get into whether Kabbalah exists or not, it is impossible to place a correct intention since I would have done it anyway, with my regular egoistic intention. Now, the feeling in connection comes, but only after I put in the efforts in that direction.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Francisco,

Sorry I missed this. This concept is so wrong that it is worthwhile to throw it away and start over. No calculation about how it works will be correct. We’re in a big, interconnected system, the interactions and ricochets in which expand across lifetimes and above time-states. But more than that, the reasoning for what happens in this system is above any reasoning we have.

If a person is trying with all his might to correct himself, no matter what he did, even if he did atrocities, if now he’s trying with all his might to reach spiritual correction, and he does so in a direction that is correct, meaning according to Kabbalists, then, since he is now heading towards the true purpose of his life, and his correction, he can become completely purified and beloved by the Upper Force. Everyone has this destiny before them. Meaning what he did before he knew about the true purpose of life was all in the hands of the Creator, even if one was the most evil in history; while what one does after he discovers the goal of life, he’s accountable for; and then he can start distancing or coming closer to the Creator. And then there is a very different calculation with him from Above.

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