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We don’t create laws; nature does. We’re simply not familiar with the laws we’re up against. It’s beneficial to learn these laws since they’re going to rule reality whether we know about them or not. And we’re in a situation where we need to hear about them from Kabbalists, since our minds will lead us to conclusions that will lengthen our path and ultimately cause more suffering. Let’s say that here there are hidden laws as powerful as those that determine that atoms connect in the way they do; first, protons are united into the nucleus, and only afterward the electrons join them to form an atom. The protons have to unite together with each other, without the particles of another charge, the electrons. In the history of the universe, these bare nuclei existed for hundreds of thousands of years before electrons could settle into orbits around them. Likewise, I said that the connection of the two halves of the soul of Adam HaRishon comes much later, many degrees from where we are. In the meantime, the men need to connect, and the women connect, independent of one another. Except in the general ways we do, where we do have common lessons together, conventions, in the lessons from Bnei Baruch men and women ask questions and we hear each other and benefit from each other’s unique perspectives and approaches. As for singing, teaching – women can (and do) create songs for other women, teach one another. The main thing though is that these explanations are already superfluous and if we can’t accept the ways of the Kabbalists or we believe those ways to stem from regular human thoughts and habits, then we won’t be able to rise from our degree during this lifetime.
If we accept the Kabbalists and play in these laws, we later see, feel, and understand for ourselves the correctness of their ways.
We’re supposed to be as one man in one heart, but we’re not yet. We’re below the very last spiritual degree, and exist as beasts do. While we are not even on the first spiritual degree, the correct connection between the men and women, the correction for which stems from the Shattering between Adam and Eve, is among the highest spiritual degrees. It’s probably worthwhile to also mention that it’s less the women who have a problem here, but the men, who therefore need to face only each other, and always be before male teachers. It’s specifically men who, in any other form, know how to escape their correction and not advance whatsoever toward spiritual things. However, in old times, when men were not in such a lowly animal state, but on lofty spiritual degrees, there was a generation, for example, when the highest Kabbalist was a woman – so, naturally, everyone studied from her, including the men. Today we don’t have such men and we don’t have such women. Therefore, what you heard are the laws, in the meantime, for our kindergarten. They were also codified in high ancient sources, but we can’t scrutinize those.
Hi Donna,
Yes, it appears that way – but the creature develops by the Light through those stages. That’s why they are called 4 Phases of Direct Light: it’s actions of the Light. The Light is so in the desire, like a hand in a glove, that we have to clarify who it is that’s even there besides the Light. The Light creates the Shame in the creature too; and then the Desire is restricted, in response. Later, much later, there’s a space created in which there is room for the creature to develop in what can be called free choice.
While these phases do not relate to our world, they are the root for the Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking, in our world. Keter is the root; Hochma is Still, Bina is Vegetative, Tifferet is Animate; Malchut is Speaking.
Of course, upper forces are the reason for all that’s in our world. “You have not a blade of grass without a force and an angel above that strikes it and tells it, ‘Grow!'”
No, to feel hell we have to already be in spirituality. Against the revelation of the Creator, we can feel how bad it is to be in the Will to receive. Whereas we are in the lowest possible state and enjoy it.
If we are reading with a DEFICIENCY to reach specific states of connection between us. We have to play the states we want to be in, so that we and others will have a deficiency for them.
