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I heard from Rav Laitman:
Don’t scrutinize where we REALLY are. That’s after we have the Masach. Then we will draw out the evil inclination on our own. That’s a long way off. For now, we are acting, and we truly want to reach a state called love between us. I don’t check who they are, what they are, but only how I can fill up the distance between us with love. By that, I draw the Reforming Light. Before every lesson, this is a mandatory exercise — and in every assembly of the ten.
Every friend yearns for the connection and prays for the others not to fall from it. The more you can come to a common prayer, the more effective. But also don’t wait for anyone. The prayer of many is called that one prays for the many.
No, this is how Rabash writes when he seemingly doesn’t write for those who can get confused. These are notes to himself, possibly to be turned into an article at some point. Since above you have all the roots that cascade down into our world too, you have something like it here. But Rabash did have a Masach [screen]. And we also have the thoughts that trouble us, and disturb us reaching spirituality. What else do we think we’re ever going to have besides a desire, and thoughts that come from the desire about how to receive or bestow?
To your other question, yes, in everything on the path there is some kind of contentment in it. It’s all a great adventure with an array of encounters along the way to the goal.
Receiving in order to bestow, yes; but that’s far away. We need to bestow in order to bestow. Pure bestowal, without anything in return. I can’t already mix some reception together with that. Bestow to bestow without wanting anything, not even the confirmation that I’m in bestowal or that it’s working or correct, but just according to what our teachers advised. Elevate the friends, push them toward the goal, expect help from the Light, and the world is a wide field for such bestowal. If the goal is to reach true bestowal, I don’t need more.
First to know that this life is only to turn from it to more spiritual things. Yes, we must take care of this life – that is a commandment as much as any spiritual advice we get from the Kabbalists – however, all that is only so that one would do so just what’s necessary and normal, and not more than I need to be able to turn from it upwards. But to be awarded such thoughts all the time, we have to be connected to our ten, to actually feel the friends close to us. The Arvut between us, the friends are the spiritual neurons that allow us to have spiritual thoughts.
To install means to be as a recording device. Put it in your box. Even if you don’t remember it, it enters, will be there when you need it.
What to ask? Ask not to be disconnected from your ten. I heard Rav Laitman say that this is what he would ask for. Even Rav, a great Kabbalist, this is what he wants.
I never heard my teacher give us work with “the Light and the Klipot.” We don’t have those details in our senses. We have the ten – our spiritual group – and the Upper Light. I also don’t know what the Upper Light is. So, I only have the ten. But if I long for connection with them, though I don’t really want it, I discover that there is a force that can bring me from completely locked within myself to the wide spaces of love of friends – and that’s a miracle. So let’s say the Upper Light, I can say I know about, or will soon. I also know I have a force in me that doesn’t want this connection, even if it will be good, great, sublime – but is that the Klipot? We can say losely, conversationally, sure – but it’s not really. Because Klipot are actually only against the spiritual worlds of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, against each degree of kedusha [holiness], a klipa. It’s something out there in the real world and not some exercises given inside the kindergarten. So, it’s better we relate to these forces realistically, according to what we know about them, and not to tack on some names from the Upper World. The ten, the Upper Force, the ego that goes against the connection, and my contrasting prayer for connection. Some of what we read is mainly for the Surrounding Light, and not that we can truly work with those.
