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All of the degrees are stages of development of the desire, interactions the desire had with the Light. Each interaction left a Reshimo, and we can ascend through the degrees because of this. The Reshimo includes everything – which world I’m in, with which vessels, with which Lights – from Adam Kadmon all the way down to the discernment of the imaginary world we exist in now, which is the discernment of having nothing spiritual and existing in some kind of dream. We got a vague longing for spirituality, which we need to magnify and amplify through the right kind of environment. It is the beginning of the first spiritual Reshimo.
Hi Rivka,
Absolutely, in the Graduate Program we form groups for those who want to. It’s necessary to get all the basics first and advance through independent study.
What matters is that we’re getting into these matters, hopefully with the expectation that the Reforming Light will work and bring us to the feeling, from which, and only from which, can come the understanding. It won’t fit into our corporeal brains, which are built differently than the spiritual worlds. The brain doesn’t enter spirituality.
I can’t start combining the Inverse Relation of Lights and Vessels with other parts. If I understand the Inverse Relation, even in a simple way, that’s already good. If I understand the part about Nekudot de SAG, that’s good as well.
Moreover, it’s best not to even think about SAG in those terms, so as not to get confused. The Nekudot de SAG… what Lights does it have? The Light of Hassidim: pure bestowal without any reception. You can think of it as empty, except for the power of bestowal, the power to remain empty. This is its desire and its fulfilment.
It’s simply that whatever Light is in the Kli – say right now I have Neshama – it doesn’t matter that in the Kli are also Nefesh and Ruach, I have up until Neshama. These Lights fill the Kli for now, and when this filling exits, it exits through four degrees.
Purification of the Screen means that it loses its Aviut (coarseness) of the desire, which is being that desire into disuse, which is to lose the ability to enjoy in that desire. It occurs either because the state is realized as much as it could be, meaning no further bestowal is possible, as in the World of AK; or because the Screen shatters, and so the Light is forced to depart, as in the shattering of the world of Nikudim.
