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Is the rosh the awareness of the Light?
To the degree Malchut is aware she’s rejecting the Light, and why she’s rejecting it, and from whom she is rejecting it, and this awareness shapes her intention… Â that would be the rosh.
And, equal and opposite to that on the other side of the screen, she could allow the Light to fill the toch to the same degree that her intention had become correct?
If we did not first learn the laws of an egoistic reality, we would have no opportunities to apply effort to achieve the true reality of bestowal. And there would be no contrast to perceive and achieve it in full understanding. We needed to first feel out its opposite in a million subtle and gross ways, to then appreciate the Creator’s qualities in each and every one of those opposing ways.
But how do you keep engaging with the text if you can’t grasp onto something for your intellect to chew on some level? I can commit to spending a certain amount of time a day reading it. But any continuity at all in the “story” of it is the carrot on a stick to keep my brain from wandering away from it. I have to let it imagine something or it will play dead.
How do you cultivate a desire to attain it, if you’re not allowed to contrive any semblance of an idea of what it is that you’re straining for? It irritates me how little desire I can muster for the things I’m supposed to desire. But I do still have the desire to keep studying, because there’s a narrative I can follow and that is entertaining. I know this is not entertainment, but I don’t want to lose the desire I do have.
I listen to the videos and the suggested reading during my work day, and I read the Zohar before bed, because I read that I should do that. Do you think I should read some other specific thing before bed, and wait until some point to go back to the Zohar?
When we see people in our world who seem to have no shame, but seem to rule and control everything, are these forces like “the accuser” or “angels” that are like Nature applying pressure to us? Or are they just depictions of part of ourselves? Is seeing someone else not having shame part of growing our ability to perceive spiritual shame?
If the letters, HaVaYaH (Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey), in His Name contain the whole of reality, without any exception, how are we below them? It sounds like we are a separate extension or derivative after all this, or maybe we are the end point of the second Hey. When we start achieving the goal of creation in the next time period, will there be another letter added to the Creator’s name?
Also, during these four phases, was the Creator completely revealed to the creature? If so, do we have reshimot that remember the revealed Creator?
Also, I am trying to understand the exact perspective of Malchut. . . since in past representations of this diagram I was thinking of her as the kli. And in the diagrams of the offset boxes I thought of them like snowmen, like each has a head and a body, and the two together are the entity (called Malchut most of the time.) But when I am looking at yours I am feeling like that might have been the wrong idea, and maybe Malchut is actually just a point of perspective working with this body, and it’s not her body at all. Just like how I am a point of perspective riding in this animal called a human.
Is Malchut a point of perspective situated at the level of the screen, who is looking at all the interactions on the screen and making calculations and observations? And the “guf” is what appears to be all the other people and every entity in our world? And she is not anatomically (in the spiritual sense) similar to the other people at all. They are each opportunities for her to fill more desires, and if she connects to them her point of perspective can see the filling of the desire and feel the feeling of filling it. And the “rosh” is her knowledge and perception of the filling of those desires? It’s the extent that she can see it happening?
(I suppose if this were the case each person would be their own universe overlapping each others’ like a hologram. But, idk, because Rav says the world doesn’t actually exist.)
And I read this:
“In other words, they draw lights for the benefit of the world in a depiction of clothing – drawing direct light – and through striking, they raise reflected light that clothes the direct light in a depiction of clothing. They draw direct light for the benefit of the world downward, and raise reflected light from below upward, clothing the direct light, and this is called by the name ‘depiction.'”And it sounded like we might be a point of perspective looking at this depiction and interpreting it according to our own qualities. So, I guess my question is if that kli is actually part of me, or it’s just something I can sense, and I am just the point of perspective having this question.
And is Malchut one perspective, or billions of them? When the shattering is knit back together, will there be billions of discrete points of perspective that can sense each other’s senses, or just One?
