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I understand. You’re reasoning and thinking about the Creator as if His mind and heart would function via similar mechanisms to how ours do. About this, Kabbalists write that the Creator says, “Your thoughts are not as my thoughts.” And now I need to say something seemingly contradictory, but it’s not. The Torah, it is written, is written in the language of people. Meaning it’s written according to how we attain the Creator on various degrees of correction that the Torah writes about. So, on the degrees of correction and attainment of the Creator, I will attain Him in my Kli [vessel] as if now He is saddened, now He is wrathful. But that’s only how I feel Him in the state of my Kli. Here, we’re not speaking of perceptions that I should convinced myself of, that He’s like this or like that. But it’s written there, and you will attain those states as clearly as you see the sun in the morning sky.
But all His behaviors are of bestowal, relating to us for our benefit and only our benefit. He doesn’t think of Himself. How do Kabbalists know? This is what they attain.
You have to agree on the rules your ten follows. Though they’re practically all pre-defined and if there are questions you can reach out here or to the Arvut team. Probably, if there are issues, it’s because we’re writing our own Torah. Once we clear up these confusions, we all have to go Above Reason on everything else. It’s not sweeping it under the rug; it’s putting it in a box. I know I’m stuffing it there, and we agree that we’re going above it in order to rise upon it. Some things’ correction is just to be risen upon – for now. And my correction for now is only to scrutinize clearly and finally that this is all there is to do about it. It takes scrutiny to arrive at this certainty each time, enough to rise above reason. Rightly so: if there’s something you can do by the strength of your hand, do it. But after I examined the laws of reality, the rules of Rabash, my perception of reality, and made several efforts in various directions, I saw that I have only to go Above Reason.
It again depends on if we’re talking about some beginner mistakes or something else. Are we talking about forcing some poor mother to turn on her camera while she’s nursing or something? We can’t obligate a woman to anything time-dependent because the world demands twice of her what it demands of a man – and besides, there is such a spiritual law. She can connect when and how she can, and the Creator judges her against her – meaning she herself is the metric ruler. Against her prior state, she is judged if she advanced another millimeter toward the connection. We can’t tell on the outside. Only to the extent she said, “If I’m not present Monday through Friday, call me, knock on my door, help me to not lose sight of the goal,” we can serve her desire. We can ask such things of the friends, about ourselves; but we can’t do the converse and tell a friend, “You should be here Monday through Friday, have your camera on” and so on. We can agree generally and raise the importance of the fact that having our cameras on is an expression of our desire to connect, with all the means that we have – since, after all, would you choose a zoom, let alone a zoom without your camera on, if given the chance to speak with your cute darling beloved small child? So, if we aspire to be like organs in one body – that’s even greater love than any love we can imagine. So, of course I’d turn on my camera; of course I’d speak in the workshop like I’d speak, even at 2 in the morning if woken up by my darling child who knows no better than to wake me. We’re aspiring for love. Real love. And here, that will mean reaching love of the Creator at the same time. Having said that, we also need to understand that we don’t understand the situation of the other women. And, even what I’ve said above, we have to be sure we didn’t say it to target someone and teach them to stop neglecting the ten, slacking, and so on – since then, that intention will be all that is heard. Imagine each of them as your beloved daughter that is tentatively flirting with the path of Kabbalah and has a chance to now correct her soul during this lifetime, how gentle, careful, and thoughtful you’d be to push to hard, so as not to turn her off and return her to the darkness of corporeal listlessness for another lifetime. So, I should pressure myself, and only give the friends the pressure they ask for. I already pressure them greatly by showing a great example in every moment, as this sets a high bar, and we’re built to want to reach a bar another sets.
One can only use this on himself, to excuse the friends in his eyes, since they are a reflection of his qualities. If we think about it, we’ll see how we can’t tell anyone else to obey the commandment underlying this: they are all my qualities, my approach. So, there’s nothing to tell anyone ever. I should tell only myself. Otherwise, I’m just falling off a cliff at a deeper level of the principle.
I’d say that our work is to rise above all the degrees of egoism. Only much later, we open up that box and take it out bit by bit, to the extent we can correct it.
