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If I already have all my friends filling my heart, so that there is no reality in the world except for the friends, then I’m already in the spiritual worlds, in the revelation of the root of my soul. If my heart still is filled with my own desires, then that’s reflected as my world, and I’m in the corporeal world.
Other than those Rav blogs about the root of the soul, there are not many writings. The ARI says something about it in Gate to Reincarnation (I don’t trust the English translation), but it’s written for those who are in spiritual attainment. Rabash says something about it here: https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/8HGXFFx3Â
But the root of the soul is found in the right connection with one’s ten, and in no other place, as with all the concepts in Kabbalah.
What is correct is that all the states the Torah describes, happen in the ten. But you have to enter spirituality to have a Klipa against spirituality. Otherwise, it’s neither Klipa nor Kedusha. In that sense, there are no real Klipot in our work in the ten. But sometimes on our way to connection we experience something sort of like the states Baal HaSulam speaks of.
There isn’t such a thing. What happens to this body is like what happens in the jungle to animals. Nothing more than that. Nothing happens in this world except to inch a person closer to reaching the root of his soul. What is the root of my soul? I can’t know or compare it to anything that I do know because there is nothing in our mind, heart, or world that is similar to the root of the soul. The root of your soul is found in the ten. You have to connect to them in heart, and there you will discover the root of your beautiful soul.
Hi Ed,
There are 2 rounds of Young Group. After that, you may elect to continue participating in the graduate program as a student or supporter while attending morning lessons, or you may decide to have your center of mass be more in the Bnei Baruch side than the KabU side. So, there’s the 2 rounds of Young Group that everyone goes through, after which you have more freedom to “study where one’s heart desires.”
Hi Marina,
During a lesson, it is possible that the Rav is providing some level of – let’s just say – a covering for you. The lesson is primarily his work. After the lesson, we need to implement everything we heard. You were given at least some tiny feeling of the states the Rav was mentioning. Now, you need to aspire to those states. Nothing will happen on its own. I have to move myself, with a prayer to the Upper Light, toward states of greater connection with the friends, to actual love between us.
Are we talking about the actions we hear about in the Upper World, like in Adam Kadmon? Those are not states of darkness. Even if we’re talking about our work…you started with “we are pressured by the Surrounding Light and the Kli empties…” Those are already beautiful spiritual states where we’re already in the Upper Worlds. There is no darkness there. Once the Kli tastes the inner light, it weakens us – because we want to bestow more – and we have to leave the state. It happens that that’s the closest to Equivalence with the Creator that we can be, for now.
The darkness in our state is that we both wouldn’t choose this state, and furthermore, disagree with it fairly completely. But this reality is for me to have an opportunity to study myself: the still, vegetative, animate, speaking is a demonstration of what’s inside of me. That’s why it is written love your friend as yourself, which helps you correct your inner vessel, shown to you as if it’s outside of you. We have to very seriously integrate with the friends, to see this.
Then, eventually you reach a state where you feel, in the ten, and only there, in a Partzuf, the bitush of panim and makif (striking of the Surrounding Light and the Inner Light), that some of the Light must stay outside, and so on. This is already not a state of darkness, whether Lights goes in or out or stays outside…
