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to further clarify and ask , in this morning’s lesson the question was asked about what the actions of bestowal and then the follow up was about rewarded the light that reforms through faith and then Rav answered him and at the end said until he is reformed and if he doesn’t he will be thrown back to previous states. Is this why when a person reaches Lishma, that he worries all the time that he is doing write that he could not be adhered to The Creator even for one moment ?
Home work assignment #4 .
Baal HaSulam Shamati 7. “A Habit Becomes a Second Nature” in the Work?
I heard in 1943
By accustoming oneself to something, that thing becomes a second nature for that person . Hence, there is nothing that one cannot feel its reality. This means that although one has no sensation of the thing, he still comes to feel it by becoming used to that thing.
We must know that there is a difference between The Creator and the creatures regarding sensations. Â In the creatures , this is the feeler and the felt, the attaining and the attained. This means that we have a feeler who is connected to some reality .
However, a reality without a feeler is only The Creator Himself. In Him, “there is no thought or perception whatsoever.” This is not so with a person; his whole existence is only through the sensation of reality . Even the validity of reality is evaluated as valid only with regard to the one who senses the reality.
In other words, what the feeler tastes is what he considers truth. If one tastes a bitter taste in reality, meaning he feels bad in the situation he is in,  and suffers because of that state, that person is considered wicked in the work, since he condemns  The Creator, as He is called “The Good Who Does Good,”  for He only bestows goodness to the world. Yet, with respect to that person’s feeling , the person feels that he received opposite from The Creator, meaning the situation he is in is bad.
I chose this excerpt because I relate to it greatly . Slowly I am coming to understand that I cannot see the spiritual root from the branch in all the situations in my life. I have had a wicked outlook on life for as long as I can remember for as long as I have been alive and breathing. My perception of the world around me became my reality and my reality became a void of darkness of distrust , anger , resentment and feeling so utterly alone in the world like it was me and only me against everyone else. There was no room for any truth . This excerpt reminds me that He in fact , is The Good That Does Good” always . Not just on a random time of year or on a certain day. Everything I receive is from His goodness. While I still struggle with the wickedness inside me and perception of reality. I know that through prayer and the help of the Rav, the friends and the books I will slowly evolve and change . My thoughts will change . I will perceive reality through a different lens. The lens of The Creator.
The topic of religion has come up this week on one of the morning lessons I heard and then within our Young Group. It seems perhaps religion starting out from egoism could also be imagination? meaning if someone were to read the Torah and not be in the spiritual leveling which that item was written for  , and then take that literally with in the means of the corporeal world, and then create a system out of that in the corporeal world, however also , Religion does teach us to be moralistic and all things are from The Creator as there is none else beside Him. It does help us to realize that we are not alone in a sense . That their is a force beyond us that we are not in control of. Religion can also be used to be guided to truth of Kabbalah . So on one hand I feel like both things can be true . That religion can be both.  I think my question is , what is the role of imagination in my ego? can it be used to bestow ?  I just know that when I am uncomfortable my imagination and creativity can think of ideas that suit me and in turn others but in the long run the imagination came forth to benefit me in some way , or does our imagination change as we do?
I hope this makes sense.
Thank you.
I am a point in the heart but if I continue to annul to the Rav and absorb truth without resistance we will be able to grow together through connection through much effort above our intelligence and above our corporeal thoughts and mind. As a Rav the students become higher regard than the teacher as to through the teacher the group becomes higher than myself as I wish to elevate them above myself to truth .
My impression of Rav after the clip is that his adhesion with The Creator is far beyond my own. As was explained about the point in the heart once one with a true point in the heart hears of the truth he cannot avoid it or run from it or avoid it in some way and I heard this in his speaking when he said that he doesn’t live his life for himself anymore but not in a way in which we should feel sorry for him. On the contrary. He sees this as a great responsibility to the end of the goal .
