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Hi Jonathan,
Understanding, for Kabbalists, means the quality of Bina. That is, to understand is only if I actually reach this quality of the Upper Force.
But there’s also a benefit to the type of understanding you’re talking about, which is that I’m using my mind to try to feel and connect to the material, the effort awakens the Reforming Light, and bit by bit I feel I have more to grasp onto. And that shouldn’t lead me to be satisfied that I understand but it gives me more grip in the study so that I’ll be able to draw even more Reforming Light. Meaning I’ll be able to sit in the study and awaken more and more of these qualities that exist in my soul.
That’s a good question, you’re thinking is right, but no on (a). Malchut revealed her nature in the world of Eyn Sof, that it was utter reception without a shred of bestowal. But it’s not that she knows she’s doing wrong and she nevertheless continues. And moreover there is no wrong in this situation. From the Upper Force’s point of view, there’s no need for Tzimzum (Restriction). Seemingly she could go ahead and receive just like that, anything you want granted, no limitations. The Restriction is called “adornment” – that is, something not necessary. But later there will be the process of correction, restrictions, forbidden, and evil.
(b) Even though it seems that here we are discussing states that are so far away from us that they reach up the entire spiritual latter, what’s written in the Preface which we’re discussing in this course is actually very close, in that in it is a remedy that builds our soul on the first spiritual degree. Specifically Shame though is not right next to us. Shame, it’s written, is reserved for the great righteous. You’ll be very happy to reach such a state. And of course you’ll need to be equipped with something called Faith Above Reason to enter any degree that is above the one we’re given from birth because the Upper World is not like anything you understand and you can’t access it any way you know how, but I don’t know what Faith Above Reason is right now because it’s not part of this particular course.
Hi Cheryl,
No, we can’t recognize these stages because we’re not in them. We just can’t imagine what we’re in – an imaginary world, we’re having a dream. And that’s why these teachings sound so strange – they’re about the real world, and we’re not in the real world.
If we got an awakening to the wisdom of Kabbalah it probably means there are a few sparks in this dream, which if I collect them, I will wake up to the true reality. By learning about it though, I strengthen these sparks. There is no other way out of this state. I remain in it, until I do it.
ah, ok.
Since Preface describes the process from Above downwards, here Baal HaSulam calls them Lights.By understanding that the world is under the complete dominion of the Upper Force that is running through and filling the whole reality, and that you did nothing. It did everything. It only gives us the illusion that we’re acting, later we’ll see that we did nothing. We’re not responsible for anything good or bad that we did. That’s what we need to say in each moment. And yet, we must act. So, how should I best respond now, to all that the Upper Force did? After I’ve acted, as though everything depends on me and me alone, I again ascribe everything to the Upper Force. In this way you behave towards reality in the most correct, least-delusional way. The only real failure is that one did not relate this way to reality. This sorts out everything correctly.
