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I don’t know about hell. We are in the lowest state that can exist in reality. But if I’m found in a state where the gap, the oppositeness between me and the Upper Light is revealed, then it truly burns, it’s intolerable like being in fire. You won’t stay in that state. So, then there is the Tzimzum (Restriction) over the desire; and that’s not bad, then I already need to open up the desire, just a bit, to start bestowing back to the Light. At least to start with something tiny.
But we’re not in such states yet. We have no Upper Light that we can perceive, we don’t perceive this force of bestowal, and so we don’t feel opposite to it. In fact, we don’t even feel ourselves to be so much in a Desire to Receive. We don’t identify our intentions in each moment. We just act, basically unconsciously each and every moment. So, you see, we’re exempt from perceiving any states such as are spoken of here.
But if only I felt spiritual shame! Is it really suffering? I don’t know. I have never been ashamed, I’ve spent my whole life making sure I never get to the feeling of shame. So, how I dress, talk, my profession, even what I eat follows the fancy of society. So that I’ll never feel shame, that I’m less than someone else – and it’s preferable that I’ll come out looking even better than others. But never less. That, I must hide from at all costs. So we never arrived a shame. The ego would first chose death. So, this is just to know that we’re lacking a reference sensation here. It’s enough to know that we live every day to avoid Shame because of its high spiritual root. On the way back to spirituality we correct ourselves so as not to feel the Shame again that we learn about here. The system is made so that we’ll achieve equivalence with the Light, and will have no cause for Shame because we’ll be bestowers like the Light, and not as receivers, the go between the two being the cause for Shame.
Hi Adelina,
In spirituality there isn’t complete emptiness like something we might imagine. If we say Bina stays “empty” what we mean is that she is fulfilled by an opposite fulfillment, the Light of Hassidim, the Light of similarity with the Creator.
Hi Jurandy,
Actually, the very first degree is the birth into the spiritual world, crossing of the Barrier. Then, there are 125 degrees of development in the spiritual world.
The part and the whole are essentially one. The individual feels he has existence independent from the whole and hence lives an imaginary existence. It’s an imagination I am having, a dream. That’s why I have nothing that is spiritual before I connect the whole of reality to me. This wisdom speaks of the desire before it felt itself separated into many parts. By learning it, though, I awaken myself to the state prior to that separation.
