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Good Morning, I have been travelling, and reading articles…often I end up reading several articles because questions are spawned from the original article I was reading, so forgive me for being full of questions today.
A friend and I are reading Baal Ha Sulam’s #1 There is none else besides Him. In the article he says, “hat is, he lacks the strength to observe Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] even Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], for only by genuinely overcoming all the obstacles, above reason, can he observe the Torah and Mitzvot.
Yours truly, did not know what Lo Lishma and Lishma meant so I jumped onto article the Rabash Article 23 What Beginning in Lo Lishma Means in the Work.
Here is my two part question:
In the Rabash article one of the discernments in Lo Lishma is 2. One who studies in order to annoy. What is meant by annoy? Is this a translation limitation?
In the first article what is meant by “Not for her Sake” as opposed to “For her Sake?” Who/what is the “her?”
Thank you, Gianni; this is a great comfort to me. Prayer is something I can do! As for the halacha, I had no idea what that was, so I had to look it up, but I won’t worry about it. The gid ha-nesheh came up because I had a memory of Jacob wrestling with the angel, and I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it.
A couple of questions: I don’t want to get the corporeal meaning of gid ha-nasheh confused with the spiritual one. What does it mean Kabalistically? I can’t run from what I don’t know… Next on my list is: I love my friends and pray for them often. In the back of my mind, I know I am also praying for myself, and that is egoistic, isn’t it? I want to pray for their spiritual welfare properly. Is this an exception to the rule? If not, how do we resolve this conflict of interest for his sake?
Are the books of the Ari translated into English? I have read his poem part one, but cannot find anything else in English.
