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The Reforming Light can do everything. There are no bigger or smaller problems for it. To the extent I want a solution, which will be different than any solutions I imagine, it will untangle and correct everything.
Hi Sagar,
You’re right, there’s something to question there. We won’t be able to clarify it all the way because it’s Baal HaSulam.
Gilad Shadmon was asked about sharing inner states at the congress and his simple answer was “keep something for just the Creator.” What to keep, is one’s own scrutiny.
It’s certain that I need to disclose to my friends and advertise the greatness of the path, the greatness of the Creator, while remembering I must be inferior, the lowest of all of them. Then, when a friend speaks, it’s the Shechina speaking from his throat, and I need to drink up the Light that comes from him. This circle of influence is possible without anyone disclosing their inner states.
There’s still a reality that is according to that uncorrected person’s perception, that they still dwell in a shattered perception. A Kabbalist can reveal all the degrees of perception, but cannot open up the World of Truth for others. After all, they don’t want it yet, and “there’s no coercion in spirituality.” They have smaller, nearer goals they’re still busy with. And to the extent of the Kabbalist’s Equivalence with the Creator, he suffers from this fact – that people are both suffering and don’t want to come out of it in a way that accords with the laws of reality. I heard also that for such a Kabbalist there is also something that is not revealed and cannot be until that last soul corrects himself, through his free choice, and joins all the others who await him in the Garden of Eden.
No, there’s a correction that only the Creator knows how to do, called Lishma, where He gives us a new nature, so that I am like Him, and our mutual dependency is revealed, as “there is no Light without a Kli,” no Creator without a Created Being. He’s really suffering without His Created Being and we, on the other hand, can wait until tomorrow or next week…
Thanks Ruth, glad you’re with us.
Gamification is possible to an extent, it could be good, but we have to think about it. Though the whole world is now used to being paid in little dopamine hits, for the real spiritual payment a person will have to learn to work in more serious ways – with texts, longer lessons, and so on. The laws of reality by which Kabbalists for thousands of years had to rise through the spiritual degrees, do not change. And it’s not certain that I become optimally compatible with these laws by the fact that nowadays people have become like lab mice trained to constantly grab their device and press buttons. It could even be that less “engagement” and more thinking is closer to the spiritual goal.
Hi Luke,
God forbid I don’t advise not to read the Torah, but can I read it in a way that brings me closer, from moment to moment, to spirituality? Prior generations could. They were built differently, and so they knew while reading it that it wasn’t about our world – not a history, tall tales, or anything like that; not a holy text just to revere and bow before, but a spiritual blueprint as you said, that one has to decode every word, and in doing so, change his inner properties, so that it would bring him to compatibility with the Upper Force. An honest and perceptive person notices that he’s fallen from such inner change-seeking, within a sentence or two, if he began at all – and he needs great proficiency in the wisdom of Kabbalah to even begin, if not some spiritual attainment already.
That’s why, I think, that by reading the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, and hearing the lessons of Rav Laitman, I study the Torah, but in a way that I’m not like a first grader sitting with a book on quantum physics, fantasizing that by this I’m actually learning. Read even the first article of Rabash and tell me that he doesn’t take me by the hand through the writings of Kabbalists from all generations, including the Torah and its commentaries, but in a way where I can’t mistakenly think that it’s about something other than me. https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/IHYcOU8k
