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Our nature is only self-love, to think about what concerns my self-benefit, for now or the future – and all that I deem as belonging to me in some way. We can only make efforts in the direction of love of others, according to the directions of Kabbalists, to draw the Reforming Light so that it will bring us from self-love to love of others. These efforts certainly are more of an effort if I feel a resistance; whereas if I don’t feel resistance, my Will to Receive probably agrees with the action, and for it to agree means it probably has found some self-benefit, according to its nature.
Contemplation is just thinking, clarifying what your desire is, what is most important. Meditation is described here:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SsQJkZNhE
Procreation as in having kids in our world?
Of course, in the wisdom of Kabbalah there is a lot about procreation in the spiritual worlds because additional Partzufim are required to build from Above downward a system through which the Created Being can correct all his parts to being in order to bestow; and from below upwards, the created being can climb this ladder of degrees, through free choice.
As we are a reflection of Upper Laws, and all our emotions, thoughts and aspirations only reflect our matching to our upper roots, so a person in our world has a built-in desire for kids – like every animal desires to mate, and if he doesn’t have offspring, then he always somewhere is left with a deficiency as a result of not matching his upper root.
Basically, Rabash and Baal HaSulam wrote everything that needs to be said for students’ advancement. We can draw attention to specific things and maybe simplify them, but that’s it.
I don’t know. There cannot be many variations of physics or chemistry, and the laws of the Upper World are further laws of nature that do no leave room for variability – and so the answer is no: a path could be more accurate or less, but there cannot be many correct paths. That’s why a person has to put all their eggs in one basket: choose where their heart tells them is best, and once decided, stick with that place and that teacher until the end.
I’m not going to make such innovations in the Torah – but surely as one ages, one overcomes all kinds of silly pursuits, in part because he cannot receive them in any case; it’s just that now he is wise enough to know it. Sure, there’s a spiritual root for it, being the purification of the Masach [screen].
