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Even scientists today are saying that EVERYTHING you see, including your own body, is a projection of… well, that they don’t know, but Kabbalists say it’s of the Will to Receive.
Questions are not a chore for us.
But I think this text is not so much for study, but for a person to read and install it in their heart. It’s so revealed and direct that there’s nothing else to say. So, there are opposites there. If there aren’t opposites somewhere in the wisdom of Kabbalah, it only means the Kabbalist didn’t mention it, for now. To add to this would be as if the teacher arranged everything on the desk for the student, who has nothing left but to lift the crayon, and the mom jumps in and colors the picture for the child.
No, the path of Kabbalah is joyous. If I am a world traveler, some CIA guy, I’m in some horribly inconvenient place. Would you like to go to the mountains of Yemen and maybe get into a battle, nearly die, and so on? He would. Or if I get into a cold plunge, I’m not wanting it warm or lukewarm – I’m looking forward to how cold it will be. If I wasn’t looking for that, it’d be terrible suffering, but just seeing it through another lens makes it the highlight of my day. A Kabbalist feels himself like a gamer who finally gets to play his game, the only thing he wanted to be doing. All the time, he is in joy. That’s if you’re relating to the path correctly at each stage, deeply integrated in the ten, the lessons.
Would you be more inclined at each stage, though, the more you advance, the more the ego grows, to put the correction off till later, and accordingly be subject to more blows? Here there is a question.
If you ask technical questions I can answer. How one feels in each state, Baal HaSulam doesn’t explain. Generally, too, we won’t be right in our imagination of it. It’s good to yearn for these states. But I can’t confirm it’s like this or like that. Sometimes there is an analogy, like with the guest and the host, but that’s Baal HaSulam’s example, so I’m comfortable using it.
That’s how it is written. Also, Adam HaRishon we can say had no choice: the shattering had to happen. Also,us. If we look through the right lens, we’d see there aren’t even humans here, but animals who follow their every instinct and only dream up a narrative about how they’re debating, deciding. But we could wash off that dream from the matter and we’d see that they do everything they do, anyway, without any of their decisions. Their decisions come after the impulses arise in them, and then depending on the more powerful signal, that’s the option they go with. But the weaker and stronger signals were juxtaposed on purpose, to lend the illusion of choice, while all along it is known what you are, what impulses were given, and thus, what you’ll decide. So, too, for every single human and the rest of the animal kingdom of which we’re still parts, because we, in this governance, have not risen to a level that is beyond animals. Rather all is done by the Creator.
Except that we were given the wisdom of Kabbalah and how much am I realizing at least what I know to do, in every moment? Or is it that I find that it is important, but other things are more important most of the time? So, until it will be important enough it turns out that it’s not important enough. Meaning, yes, I suffer but I’m ok with continuing to suffer a while longer.
It is written that Malchut of the Four Phases decides on the Tzimzum [restriction]. It’s called an ‘adornment,’ as if not entirely necessary. And the Creator pushes Malchut to receive, but as the ‘guest’ Malchut refuses the entreaties of the Host. However, “a decision of the Upper becomes a law for the lower.” Moreover, I heard in the lesson from Rav Laitman just now, “Every moment he is giving you exercises and you couldn’t care less about them – that’s why you are staying as you are – you don’t want to see his relation to you and establish your relation back to him.” Therefore, all our suffering is because we’re willing to have tomorrow be as today was, and so on.
