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The detaining force is the Malchut that is Restricted, which one has to maintain, or, if we’re before the Restriction, to try to approximate, as if we would love to be in such a state.
I know TES is describing a whole partzuf. But is it holographic? All these events also occur in every “part,” like each of us working with the upper on our own desires?
They do, but it all depends if they are perceived. The symphony outside a deaf person’s ear exists – or does it?
Is the capacity for appreciation the sensing organ for spiritual objects?
No, but not appreciating things is what blinds us. The sensor is the Masach [screen]. Gratitude and raising the friends and the Creator is the gateway to it.
Is a “record of coarseness” a “revelation of evil”/an ability to perceive a “transgression”?
Coarseness by itself is not bad. It’s like money, depends what you use it for.
Is the light of the record that shines from yesod and animates malchut the “revelation of a portion”?
It’s a revelation of the Light to the extent that vessel can receive it to bestow.
Is a “spark” a new facet of a “portion” which energizes the vessel to keep working towards the reflected image of the portion?
I can’t verify that, in that way. But there’s something there.
Is the “alignment” having the friend between you and the Creator, and feeling the light just by knowing that the Creator and yourself are both feeling the Creator is bestowing on the friend, and you feel it as if it’s bestowal on you even though you are technically in the shadow of the friend, holding the friend between yourself and the Creator?
Correct direction. Let it be that way for now.
Does malchut leave a vessel and no record (idea) because she’s a desire with no image at the “bottom”? and keter leaves a record (idea) but no vessel at the “top” because its an ideal idea so fine we can’t desire it? And then every sefirot in between is a facet of the interaction between that desire and the idea (keter) revealed in the “portion” (the desire depicted in bestowal) that the partzuf is working with?
Malchut has an image, but one opposite to the Creator. She is the shape of a vessel of reception. It needs to become like the Keter.
Is the screen just the consequence of calculations made regarding the status of the potential reception? The calculations would be made by looking down to feel the status of the desire and looking up (most of the time) to compare it to the record of the portion?
Loosely we can say it is along those lines.
Is the corporeal “body” our interpretation of the “mind” (calculating and perceiving device) the upper gives us to observe all this?
It’s a copy of all the spiritual processes of the Partzuf. That’s why they’ll never correctly understand it, in our world, not even a little.
Can we pray for “the power of overcoming”?
Yes. Pray for it for the friends.
If you can still enjoy something else, go ahead. There’s a certain law over reality that ensures each one will complete that experiment, understanding that there is a law over them, imposing this correction of each one’s soul, and there’s nothing to do about it. The good future lies ahead; the suffering is coming from behind. Between these is a person’s only choice.
For a minute, I thought you were saying ‘in corporeal life you do A, you get B’ and so on. But you were referring to spiritual life. That’s only in the theory of spiritual life. The axiom is becoming clear to you. But in reality, corporeal life has clear cause and consequence, while in spiritual life, we have to work Above Reason. The laws of corporeal life are much more revealed. And its laws are the Creator’s laws. So, we need to closely obey the laws apparent in this world – and that will be the most spiritual thing we can do; and obey the spiritual laws toward the group. We don’t bring the ways of one into the other. But there’s a point where they become one, precisely by working toward each one in these opposite ways.
Most of what’s described in this course, until toward the end, refers to a whole Kli [vessel] – not to our broken vessel. Its correction is to connect to others, to eventually construct a whole vessel. On the way to that, one corrects 613 desires.
