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After the lesson today Seth asked us to read the last two paragraphs of RABASH article “You Stand Today, All of You” and to see if we could express in our own words the meaning of the last two paragraphs. I reread them multiple times now and I want to know if I am understanding correctly.
I think what RABASH is saying is – My work is to develop a genuine demand for the desire to bestow. Through my efforts to connect, love the friends, and work for the Creator, I discover that I cannot change my intention by myself. I cannot accomplish this without the friends. That recognition produces a true prayer: I ask the Creator to give me the new Kli—the desire and intention to bestow—which can clothe my will to receive.
For me, the motivation to persevere is that this exact moment of wanting to quit is evidence I’ve reached the place that actually needs correction. If the lesson touches a part of the soul that resists, then the resistance isn’t a sign I’m “not meant for this,” it’s the sign that the work is finally becoming real. I want to keep going not because it feels inspiring in the moment, but because I’m aiming for the purpose of the study: to invite the Reforming Light to change my intention, deepen my deficiency for bestowal, and strengthen my connection to the goal and the group (once I get into a group of ten). When I feel that inner pushback, my practical motivation will be simple: show up anyway, even with a tiny request—“let this resistance become material for correction and connection”—and let persistence itself be my act of faith in the process.
Concealment makes something more attractive precisely when it creates a true lack and therefore builds the Kli. When the Light is revealed openly, the will to receive grabs it automatically and the person remains in self-reception, which actually damages the possibility of equivalence of form and produces “bread of shame.” Concealment, on the other hand, leaves a person with only a trace and an impression—Reshimot—and the Light is then felt as Ohr Makif from the outside: it doesn’t fill, it awakens longing.
Actions that align with the upper qualities – my intention and my relation to others. Practically, that means you keep returning to one inner request —“correct my desire so I can relate in bestowal”—and you try to translate it into action in the world you’re given: choosing connection over separation, patience over superiority, listening over winning, giving over taking, even in small, ordinary moments. The Upper Force is felt where there is equivalence of form, so the most direct demonstration is to build a consistent habit of stopping in the moment of self-reception, noticing it without self-hatred, and asking for the ability to rise above it and act for the sake of connection a real prayer (not words, but a lack).
Also, by learning and surrounding myself with others that have the point in the heart so that it will take action upon me this place. To give whatever I have to the ten to the goal that draws down the light.
I am learning the terminology (branches) and the infrastructure of the soul and spiritual worlds. I need these tools to help me with my journey back up the ladder.
