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First we need to agree. And to identify all the places we don’t agree. A Kabbalist is always in great joy because he limits himself to wanting and being happy with exactly what the Creator has given. And even if nothing changes on the outside, the inner filling is less and less, with regard to one’s spiritual path. That’s so that one would actually – finally – come to the spiritual Restriction.
It’s happening to us anyway, soon we’ll see that the whole world feels it. Might as well do the inner work to receive it correctly, and advance spiritually.
If I’m really connected to my friends, thinking of them, their advancement, then my questions will be from them. Really you’re asking “how do I be the one at the leading-edge of the society, the most bestowing, the most nullified, the most adhered to the teacher.” He can ask from the center of the ten, the center of the society.
You have to first build the device, and then go out with it. You can’t build some new invention in the street, and it won’t be better if everyone will add their two cents on the matter; you have to build in a lab. That’s what the grad program is. And you will always need to start from this lab before you’ll know how correctly to relate to the world outside it. So, first you have to really build it strongly and correctly.
For now, what you have in daily life is to behave as if you don’t study Kabbalah, while on the inside you live in the discernment that there is None Else Besides Him, the Creator that controls you and everyone, and that He only does good to you and everyone. Try to stay in those 3 inner and outer modes so that there is a split between what you’re doing on the outside and inside.
Hi Meron,
You’re right, nothing you can find in our world can be called love. That’s why it is written, “All their acts they do for themselves – and all were deemed as beasts.” Even if in me there is aroused a bit of compassion for someone else, then it pains me to see them in that state and I want to remedy their situation – and I do this because it will alleviate my inner pain at seeing their state. All that differentiates people is how much they are able to x-ray their own intentions and see that from morning until night they serve only themselves. This requires studying the wisdom of Kabbalahand from this study, drawing a force of nature which reveals this nature to a person. Otherwise, I will think I’m a pretty ok person at the end of th day, and then I have no deficiency for correction, and so I can’t receive correction.
So, revelation of my true nature is the first step. Simultaneously we try to work in the other direction. This work is done in a group of people who are also working on it, according to the article of the Kabbalist, the Rabash. We get deeply into this in he Graduate Program.
We walk the “path of the land” – somewhere between the path of pain and the path of Light. One needs to be very serious and supported to walk the path of Light for which I need to be in such prayer and longing from morning until night that it’s as if I’m already suffering, and so why does the Creator need to awaken me with sufferings? However, even when we fall to the path of suffering because we lack the support from the group to remain in the “suffering of love,” all these sufferings are later sweetened in a way that it’s as if the Creator always only did us good.
Those are really high things, where you need to be not only a Kabbalist, but a Kabbalist in the attainment of the high degrees of Atzilut, where the roots are. Even if he would tell you the meaning, it would do no good to know that, say, the Tefilin represent a certain action in Zeir Anpin. Basically, they’re all ways – if you’re a Kabbalist in those high degrees – to complete the action on the lowest degree of our world; or if you fell all the way to our world, to somehow do something to start remembering and climbing back up; or, in the case of that people who once was in some association with spiritual degrees, to at least retain some connection to their past since that past is also their future – to be united as one man in one heart, to be a Light to the nations – so at least not to lose every thread of connection to that. It’s a framework too, that if you can’t do true spiritual actions, it’s nevertheless better to put oneself in some kind of fences – because “a man is born a wild ass’s colt” – and for him to just run completely free all the time with his ego isn’t ideal. If he won’t be burdened with the work in connection and intention, so then it’s not so bad that he’s burdened with whether to put on this shoe first and that shoe next and which side of the street to walk on, and so on. The Kabbalists left all these customs, which are sort of wooden-airplane models but of true spiritual actions, and with them, simple people could – all the more so when they have no idea why they’re doing such things – be always reminded that they’re under one Upper Force, and to always pay attention to that instead of all kinds of imaginary things.
