[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Camila, I’m sorry I missed this. The spiritual adaptor is the Screen, and this itself is quite complex. But in short, it’s the intention to bestow that is over the desire to receive, which has to have first undergone the Tzimzum (restriction). The Ark is something else but it’s related – although everything in Kabbalah is related since it speaks of a complete, interconnected system. You can read more about it here. https://laitman.com/2013/11/the-ark-of-the-covenant/

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Danielle,

You can think of this in different ways. It depends how deeply we scrutinize it. You can say that the desires of this world are less pronounced, but that’s not quite true. Actually, they grow. It’s just that the Point in the Heart, which is the desire for the spiritual world, which is above this world, is in opposition with the desires of this world. Because the Point in the Heart fell from the Upper World, and the Upper World is exalted, swallows this entire universe in its measure of sublimity and importance and works in the opposite direction, towards qualities of the Creator. So, your regular desires remain, like you still somehow could enjoy, say, sitting and building a sand castle like when you were a child – but there are other desires that, because of their importance, cover this desire, even to the point that you don’t feel it in you anymore. You got more mature desires. Now there are desires that are more mature than all the pursuits there are in this world. Everyone will develop to this level eventually, and they will then wonder how they could waste time doing all kinds of things of this life. Of course, after the initial awakening of the Point in the Heart, this desire, like the desires of our world are grown through the influence of society, one needs a spiritual society, a group of others who also have the Point in the Heart, to help grow this desire to the sufficient magnitude to realize it.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Paul,

Those Still, Vegetative, Animate and Speaking are truly the ones we are familiar with in our world. Except that to Kabbalists, we are not yet on the speaking degree and have nothing from it in us. Our thoughts and desires and dreams – all that we have belongs to the animal degree. Dolphins also talk, and so do trees and other species. Emanating some communicative substance or sound is not called speaking in the language of Kabbalah. That refers to a spiritual state already. And once I reach the first degree of spirituality I start-over this development of 4 Phases, but on the spiritual degrees, and yes they correspond to the 4 worlds Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut. What I do have from the Upper World, which animals do not, is a single black Point called the Point in the Heart. First it is buried beneath the animal desires for many incarnations, and then it surfaces, demanding realization.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Marla,

I think you answered your own question. Study wherever you want, it is written, “one studies where the heart desires.” So, you have to check, not every place, but where your heart desires, and once you’ve done your check, that you felt it is the right place, the closest to the truth, you glue yourself to that place and only that place. If you have a Point in the Heart that is strong, then since that Point actually fell down from the Upper World that the Kabbalists are writing about, and because there, in truth, is not more than one method, rather Kabbalists write the opposite, that the way is along a “very narrow bridge”, it’s an invisible bridge one has to walk according to careful following of a specific method with a specific guide…so if your Point in the Heart is pronounced, it has a sense of where the truth is, the truth being that method it senses can lead it back to the root it belongs to in the Upper World. If that Point is not really ripe, then, in any case, it is not seeking such a direct method, which leaves no icons, jewelry, rituals to hold onto in this world and let the person feel that he is succeeding by them. And they too should study where their heart desires.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

People who come to the wisdom of Kabbalah typically are not drawn to being social, even if for one reason or another they may act that way in some situations. Because a strong Point in the Heart specifically resists connection with others. It’s the point of singularity that is sui generis, has nothing in common with any other. But in the Kabbalistic group it can because there it has the goal of Creation to realize. It can tolerate this connection because this Point is actually an incomparably greater egoistic point which can only connect when the purpose of connection is nothing less than revelation of the Creator. It’s not that it can’t connect, but that it doesn’t have fuel, motivation, interest to do so until it finds this perfect context in which to do so purposefully. Other people also are egoists, and only connect with others for egoistic reasons without a shred of the will to bestow being involved in this inclination – only one without a revealed strong Point in the Heart can be motivated by reasons apparent in our world, while the Point in the Heart in this respect works against the person in this world since this Point is only willing to work for the spiritual reward, which it is drawn to because the spiritual world is a billion times greater than all the pleasures of this world combined. Of course it still resists connection, but that is because the revelation of the Creator has to be with two forces: the resisting force, the force of the ego that doesn’t want to connect, and the Point in the Heart that longs to return to its root.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The quality of Bina is a spiritual quality, the quality of bestowal without reception. It is a stop along the way to Receiving in Order to Bestow, which is not possible to reach directly. In fact, ones whole work needs to be to reach Bestowing in Order to Bestow, without reception, like Bina. Of course this doesn’t pertain to one’s corporeal life, to what one already is receiving. It pertains to an additional plane to the one we live on. What we receive there is something we’re not receiving already. We can’t receive it until we develop first this quality of Bina in relation to those pleasures. Does one feel void? Well, we feel void as it is, in our lives. We feel darkness, even in the best case scenario. Even what we call pleasure is really darkness because the contact with the pleasure directly, leaves us empty and bitter. And the bitterness from the accumulated experience and understanding that this is how it works, only increases. That’s why spirituality is a great addition to what we have, and in no way compromises it. Because we develop the property of bestowal, we are able, eventually, to receive in order to bestow. And, like I said, we have never actually received before, because the moment we come into contact with the pleasure, it evaporates, because we are missing the Screen required to receive.

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