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“Devotion” is מסירות × ×¤×© (mesirut nefesh): complete annulment, absolute devotion
It’s that I have just one desire – to adhere to the teacher, the friends, the Creator – above any and all states that pass through me. It’s a decision that I’m watching in advance that nothing can come that will pull me out of the ten. The center of the group pulls me left, right, wherever it wants, I go. Say, like a sperm’s journey to fertilize the egg – it has to be ready to make great efforts, only to practically have something completely different be made out of it, something that we can say somehow includes it, but also discards some external aspects of it. It has to be ready for whatever to be done with it. There’s such a process because of the spiritual process we’ll all have to go through to be born into the spiritual world. Except for us, these are all internal actions you can’t necessarily see on the person.
Hi Ricki,
The most useful interpretation of the “body” that resists coming close to connection and bestowal, is you – how you feel yourself, your willingness, your resistance. You, at the level of your desire, is the most genuine matter on which to check.
Hi Lucy,
You connect with everyone you need to – family, of course; possibly co-workers, neighbors as much as is normal and necessary. But where you can make a spiritual connection is specifically in the Kabbalistic group, with people that you don’t know in any other context.
Though it seems related, this is completely unrelated to the wisdom of Kabbalah because with those who are in your family you do not have even the beginnings of a spiritual relationship. I have with my family essentially the equivalent of what lions or monkeys have. If you get along, it won’t bring spiritual benefit; if you don’t, it won’t bring spiritual harm. Spirituality is another dimension entirely. Better to not even connect the two. On the level of this world, family and such, you don’t need spiritual advice. In fact, the most spiritual will be to behave there as if there is no spirituality, no Kabbalah. Then, decide what would be the best, most normal, effective approach to this person? To what efforts on your part would they respond well? Once you’ve made the scrutinies, along these lines, and your efforts, it could be that you can’t have a relationship with them, for now.
A descent is a new level of coarseness (desire) that has been revealed, over which I lack Faith (bestowal) and have to establish it. Faith is the ability be above the desire, called corporeality.
