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There’s no guidance specifically on this topic. You found the book, which was from a few comments Rav Laitman made here and there about it.
The Creator made you how you are, and wants your work. He prepared a reward for that work. Now you have to do it.
From my base, which is either a man or a woman, I need to try to connect with my friends, with as much of an intention as possible. At first, I have to do it with less of an intention. Then I am spiritually more in the female state, which means my work is more in nullification, support, heavy dissemination, actions for the sake of a spiritual reward, perhaps I even picture some corporeal reward but at least I’m working in the right general direction; I’m also orbiting the accurate laser-focused target, say, on those outer scoring rings of the bull’s eye: I’m getting closer to the center all the time, but, you know, I’m in somewhat more external orbits and that’s enough for me for now. I don’t yet demand a really internal approach. Internally, I’m trying to pray, but it’s still a false prayer, which is still something, but it’s not from the bottom of the heart, meaning a true prayer that comes out of the recognition of evil, from my true state, something I can truly turn to the Creator with. Also, I’m willing for it all to take a longer time: let it happen tomorrow, next week, but I’m committed to this path for life, so I don’t need to pull into this moment now all the work and prayer I plan to one day do. So, this is more like the work when I’m a spiritual female, but this is just for starters, and there’s no end to the explanation, nor will it ever be a satisfying one.
Both men and women need to perform their general role like electrons in their place and protons in theirs, while trying to connect in their tens, which will be in their own style, but for how they are built on the inside it will be relative Equivalence of Form with the quality of bestowal, the Creator. And relative here is enough for Equivalence of Form, which is the goal.
We can also ask, “How can the created being, which is the property of Malchut, take on the form of the Creator, say, the property of Zeir Anpin?” We don’t go into the individual matter, but into the physics of each one rising above their matter. One who can do it – with the help of the Rav, group, books – is called male. Before that, he’s called female. Of course, each has problems on the way to this, according to one’s spiritual root.
Hi Tamar,
Yes, because of our egos we became very well-connected, so that we won’t be able to extricate ourselves from our interdependence, even if we’d very much like to. We didn’t intend to become interdependent; we wanted to use each other. Soon, we will be forced to recognize our absolute dependence on each and everyone else. There’s a beautiful side to this but we need to rise above our egos to see it.
To live the laws of bestowal I need to start with a small group that, so to speak, represents a mini-humanity, and see to what extent I can keep those laws, at least with them. Here, I strip away extraneous, superfluous forms and focus precisely on those that spiritually matter. This is what we will practice in the Kabablistic group. Daily life implementation only follows from this.
Hi Naomi. Well, these are standard arguments of the Will to Receive, to throw us away from spirituality. Each one, we can find in the writings of Rabash. They’re all normal and on the way to the goal. Each is like a boss in a video game and has its approach, and we have to go Above Reason, to connection, regardless of their approach. If I think these are MY thoughts, that’s a problem. They’re forces appearing in me.
No, rather I have a genetic code by which I’m a woman because of something deeper, the genetic code is just a middleman.
If we’re talking about a person in their basic human nature, then women, based on their completely different inner world than men have, cannot unite, because a woman is like a whole world by herself. She doesn’t truly need any other women. We can come up with a million exceptions to the rule, but in the end, they just clothe upon this rule and it remains eternally. Because a woman relates to the actual matter of Creation, the only thing there is in the Creation: Malchut. Man is something later in Creation, according to his root. And he is more inclined to connection, by nature. That’s why if you have some regular kids in our world, the way you work with them, to bring them to cooperation, if you understand human nature, will be different for boys and girls. There’s no way to give a good explanation of this here. It’s just endless.
Now, back to the spiritual explanation. Everyone starts as a “woman” – the basic matter of Creation without any adornments – I need to become a “man,” Adam, from the word domay (similar) to the Creator. And thus we all have to connect. Man and woman contain both parts (if they have a point in the heart), and need to make dominant the Point in the Heart, to הִתְגַּבֵּר” (hitgaber), overcome my desire of Malchut is to be a man, gevur, from the same Hebrew root ג־ב־ר (G–B–R).
Our bodies are just symbols, copies into matter from a higher level.
I don’t know what the intention of the book was, but it was something the Kabbalist wanted to put into the world, for a future time. For example, tomorrow I’ll be on The Great Transition podcast and we’ll hear some things Rav Laitman said years ago that was vexing at the time, that now we see match very well the reality of AI today. I think this book, though, teaches important things about the natures that exist in all of us, and also about the correction, which will be soon, because we’ll see that there’s no other choice.
We can either call Atzilut the World of Correction, it’s usual moniker; or we can say that the world of Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya are also worlds of correction. These 3, BYA, are corrections on the way, in Ohr Hassidim without the fulfillment of Hochma. But even this is a sublime beautiful state above anything in this world. It’s not exile, but it’s not the achievement of Purpose of Creation either – because that means to be filled with the Light of the Purpose of Creation, Hochma, and not only with the Light of the correction of Creation, Hassidim.
