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Hi Cheryl,
Am I supposed to solve all those people’s problems? The Upper Light has everything in it, all abundance. Only it isn’t revealed, this ocean of abundance. But the Light is “the good that does good”. And the goal of Creation is for me to become like the Light, bestowing like the Light, instead of receiving, which is my nature. But we see that the Upper Light does not reveal to all, otherwise all these problems would be solved instantly. So, for me to solve those problems is not me being similar to the Light, then is it? It fills the whole of reality, and yet these problems remain. Baal HaSulam calls those who try to reform the world externally “world reformers” and points to their weakness as the Upper Light will not allow us to touch anything (“improve”) what has been created. After all, it is not that the world is broken, as it appears to me. Rather, only I am broken. Internally, I’m shattered, like I’m looking at some object through a broken lens, and so the object itself appear to be broken into pieces. Therefore, I see the singular, whole, beautiful reality as hideous. Really everyone is connected, whole, abundant. Only I need to reveal this, and that revelation is called revealing the spiritual world. So, on the one hand I need to relate realistically to things, because this imagination is real for me still, and on the other hand understand that I will not be allowed to “fix” anything in that shattered picture I see because nothing is really broken. I’m approaching these shards trying to fix them and they stand, whole, already adhered as a single abundant entity. Only I’m projecting onto everyone my shattered perspective. Thus, all that remains to do is to correct my perception. And the Upper Light that we draw during the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah enables it.
Actually, nearly all centers closed with the pandemic. So, when we meet physically for a special convention it is in a rental. For example, there was a retreat in upstate New York recently. But there isn’t so much of a need for physical locations anymore, and so I don’t know if they will reopen. We see the world is moving in the direction of working from home. And spiritual work, since it is work from my heart outwards, to exit myself in my intentions and aim them towards others, meeting physically isn’t more than a psychological trick by which, after all is said and done, I will have the same inner work to do of exiting my box towards others. But we can use the trick of meeting physically sometimes as well, and after the graduate program you can see if there is a ten in your area that it’s worthwhile to be connected with.
This is only a matter of translation, nothing more. Because Nefesh and Neshama are translated as “soul”? Ok, So those were mistranslated. The soul is the corrected Kli with all 5 lights inside. All the rest is only something on the way to the soul. Anything less is not really the soul. But Nefesh is the first spiritual degree. So it’s a sublime change. Neshama is the degree of Bina. Zeir Anpin is a transition, and that is it’s role – a transition between Malchut and Bina.
No action in this world can result in something in the Upper World, except for a deficiency/request. If the request is correct then there is a response. Other than that, we can run, jump to the ends of the universe…no matter what it is it will be along the “path of pain”. That is, the predetermined suffering path which leads ultimately to the same prayer but after a long time and severe suffering. The correct request is the one that is the result of attempting to connect to reality correctly – that is, through a ten, the corrected constellation of others as described by the RABASH.
Bina is fulfilled by getting to bestow. Who gets more pleasure – the crying baby that gets milk or the mother who, stirred from her peaceful sleep, has to wake up and feed him? The mother. It’s a delight because…of the importance of the one she is serving. Hochma, at the end of that stage, found that there was this sublime property, Bestowal, which the Light has, and that’s Above reception, which is all the Desire has. So, I don’t want to use the desire, let it be empty. However, there are only sublime states, except for our world. And this is what makes our world so important and special, that from it and only it one can build oneself as a bestower, to become like the Light.
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.
