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The Equivalence of Form is the frequency on which each one connects with the Creator, by being like the Creator. Each one can do this upon whatever they are, their own desire, by rising above it, and going toward connection with others. Everyone has the same chance in this, to reach the Creator.
In Hebrew, spirit is ruach, soul is either Nefesh or Neshama. But that’s for common usage. In Kabbalah these also serve as special appellations for the degrees of the soul: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida.
1. The state is always a new form of disconnection, isolation, independence – in short, a shattering; and the next state is always a nullification of everything that belongs to the Shattering, in short, to come to There Is None Else Besides Him, all is from one, good Source, and so I too need to become one, and good – so connected and bestowing. I can do that by connected into one with my friends, and then One receives One. That is, we feel Him through being like Him. You’re right that each time it takes time to convince myself that I have nothing besides this to do – almost like trying to convince completely different people of it.
2. There’s nothing to do – I’m still convinced that at least a little good exists in me. There’s no way to talk me out of this. It has to be proved to me, on the flesh, by me trying to really love and care for my friends and open their hearts. I peel back one layer after another until I reach the bottom, that at no depth is there a shred of good in me. This stands before every person, and the difference between people is only in the depth of their understanding that there is no good in them. Because our nature is the complete opposite of good, bestowal – so that it could be inverted to bestowal, and not that it’s bestowing to begin with. I would like for things to be different, that everyone, including the Creator, would love me for what I already am, so that I wouldn’t need to change. Instead, there’s nothing about me that is worth loving, as-is. I require a complete inversion to the opposite of what I am. When I reach that realization, I’m at the gate of tears, where I really ask for this inversion. You see, prior to this, I can’t really ask because I believe that deep down there is already goodness and so I don’t really need to ask.
3. That’s all from Baal HaSulam’s Peace in the World.
4. How lucky you are that you have no interest and even a repulsion when it comes to connecting to others. It means you can only do so because you’re told you must do it to reach the Creator. You can turn to the Creator from that strife having to connect to the friends causes you, and ask Him to let you connect His Kli for His sake. If I’m certainly not doing it for me sake, I’m already halfway there. All I need to do now is turn to Him out of this state.
Hi Harry,
These are good questions. That’s because it can take 30 or even 40 years to attain true spirituality. We just don’t understand how sublime this thing is. We’re imagining something small, with our minds and hearts that are not built to be able to imagine it. There’s simply no form like it that can enter our senses or thoughts. 40 years isn’t so long after all, considering that for lifetimes and lifetimes we die like animals without attainment of the only reason we’re in this world to begin with.
Having said that, I don’t think you’re conclusions are so accurate or that it has to take nearly that long. Moreover, it depends which level of attainment we’re talking about. What students ask, and what Rav answers, are a scrutiny. Typically, the questions are for the benefit of the masses of students studying and not necessarily personal questions. That’s if it’s a mature student asking. Beginners ask what they want to know, and that’s fine. But mature students ask Rav questions that they feel the mainstream of our society might need – because they are interested in bestowal upon the society and the advancement of every friend. In themselves though, there are students that are far below the Machsom (barrier), close to it, right on it, and after it. There’s nothing about them that would indicate it and one would be very powerfully inclined to conceal it in every way, so I think speculation is futile.
A person, in the end, without proof except for his Point in the Heart, which tells him “here is the truth, and nowhere else,” he needs to go toward the goal and hold on with his teeth for as long as it takes. After all, if he’s decided that this is the place, then he has no choice but to follow the Kabbalists all the way to the Upper World. Like Rabash told Rav Laitman when he asked, you will not get any further insurance than this. You can search in other places, but in the end, you have to decide on one place, and stick with it till the end.
