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Freedom: Freedom from the angel of death, meaning from this force in us that wants us not to reach the goal of our life. It operates me so secretly that I think it is me, yet it’s utterly controlling me, like that movie ‘invasion of the body snatchers”.
None Else Besides Him: The singular force that operates all of reality, every microbe, and of course, our every thought, feeling, desire.
Left Line: I would forget about the Left Line for now. We don’t have such a discernment to work with realistically and we don’t need it. Here, we need to build the importance of the spiritual goal, the joy and greatness of the path. The Light will work in response to these efforts and sort everything out.
We are all emotions, we’re feeling creatures. And our brain is only what we imagine as something besides our emotions. But this brain is only a calculator of how can I bring more good feelings to myself and avoid bad feelings. There’s nothing else in reality. The fact that I’m having a problem in this life with bringing myself to good feelings and avoiding bad ones – that’s a certainty. All of humanity begins feeling the empty Kli, that has no Light inside. All of our incarnations all people have been trying to chase how to fill it finally. Never gets filled. You can run towards what looks like the Light of fulfilment, it’s always a mirage. So, eventually everyone will see that it is only if we will be connected, and not alone, but connect to others, in that connection and only in that connection, the Light can enter. And everything you want is in that Kli, and nothing is missing. And this is the only way to receive. That’s why the wisdom of Kabbalah means wisdom of reception. Because you can’t receive, ever, the way that is our natural approach. We need a wisdom of how to do it.
You don’t have any individual Reshimot, actually. Every state is some state of the ten. Even if you haven’t met your ten yet. You’ve been going through lifetimes together. And even if you will change tens, THAT will be your ten that you’ve always been together with. How? We’ll see how. But that’s how it is. That’s why to feel oneself alone, is to feel an imaginary state which doesn’t exist and never existed. How to feel it? Try. The Light will work on the efforts and you’ll eventually feel it.
I don’t know how I missed this thread.
Saba ve Tvuna: It’s like “grandparents” – of course not speaking of our world, but in the order of cascading it has such a relationship towards the lower partzufim. That really clarifies nothing, but it’s an answer forr now.
MAD: Mayin Duchrin, Male Waters. It is essentially the answer to the MAD, which is the correct prayer that comes from a collective (not an individual) desire.
Mem-Bet – I can’t go into all these letters, it’ll be endless, and not useful for anyone’s advancement. Because we need to attain not even the first letter but the initial black point of the beginning of the first letter. That is the practical wisdom of Kabbalah. Then, when we’re born into the spiritual world we will develop our desire into the form of different letters and letter-combinations. And, yes, we can draw the Light, but we draw it best from what is close to us, a next step in our work, the texts that relate most closely to that.
Shame is the root of everything practically. It’s true that because of the Shame that caused the realization of the oppositeness to the Upper Force, the desire to receive is willing to annul itself. And this annulment is required to begin using the desire in an opposite form, in the direction of bestowal. And without a complete stop that is truly as-if permanent, we can’t start going in the opposite direction.
I don’t know what you mean by “bestow below one”. Bina is the desire to bestow, and only to bestow. But there are desires below Tabur that want only to receive. However, they are willing to receive in any form possible. Meaning if I can bestow and by bestowing receive, then I’m willing to bestow. We see this in our world that a person is willing to give an object if through giving I receive something even more important than the pleasure of having the object. For example, I can give a million dollars if it will get my child into Harvard. But he doesn’t need Harvard for the money/career – we’re already fabulously wealthy. Why do wealthy people pay millions to bribe their children into Harvard? So that people will respect me, because my kid goes to Harvard. So, how much is that respect worth? Much more than those millions of dollars. So, it is not important how to receive. The will to receive doesn’t ask WHAT or HOW. It’s that what I will receive the most important thing to receive and in the greatest quantity and with the minimal giving possible, as any giving must be subtracted from my account of what I receive.
