[Logynn]

Thanks

I got a whole heap more questions when I was listening to the recording of Rabash this morning lesson. I hope you don’t mind if I just put them all here:

I know TES is describing a whole partzuf. But is it holographic? All these events also occur in every “part,” like each of us working with the upper on our own desires?

Is the capacity for appreciation the sensing organ for spiritual objects?

Is a “record of coarseness” a “revelation of evil”/an ability to perceive a “transgression”?

Is the light of the record that shines from yesod and animates malchut the “revelation of a portion”?

Is a “spark” a new facet of a “portion” which energizes the vessel to keep working towards the reflected image of the portion?

Is the “alignment” having the friend between you and the Creator, and feeling the light just by knowing that the Creator and yourself are both feeling the Creator is bestowing on the friend, and you feel it as if it’s bestowal on you even though you are technically in the shadow of the friend, holding the friend between yourself and the Creator?

Does malchut leave a vessel and no record (idea) because she’s a desire with no image at the “bottom”? and keter leaves a record (idea) but no vessel at the “top” because its an ideal idea so fine we can’t desire it? And then every sefirot in between is a facet of the interaction between that desire and the idea (keter) revealed in the “portion” (the desire depicted in bestowal) that the partzuf is working with?

Is the screen just the consequence of calculations made regarding the status of the potential reception? The calculations would be made by looking down to feel the status of the desire and looking up (most of the time) to compare it to the record of the portion?

Is the corporeal “body” our interpretation of the “mind” (calculating and perceiving device) the upper gives us to observe all this?

Can we pray for “the power of overcoming”?

[Logynn]

I need help finding a description of a “ringing coin.”

The reference is from Rav’s blog “What Will Replace Money” :

 

“Only if we want to replace it with the next equivalent, what can money be exchanged for, for relationships.

It is when we understand our relationships between one another and share them among each other and the Creator. When the Creator becomes our common equivalent, then all other dimensions will disappear except for real, internal relationships between us. This is called Masach (screen) and Ohr Hozer (reflected light).

This is what we call a coin, “ringing coin,” as they say.”

 

I have been looking at various forms of money and money related concepts. It’s simply fascinating to me how every single one of them points back at the root. But it is rare to find a reference to the form called “coin,” and I want to see more about it since a coin seems the most relevant in terms of sides, orientation, a space between two opposites, etc.

[Logynn]

This question started as a topic in the women’s young groups and it has a lot of subtle implications, so it turned into a lot more questions. Initially it came up that in a Russian language lesson there was an instruction that women need to have children. I can’t quote the instruction to clarify, because I haven’t seen the Russian lesson. But the friend has a question that’s important to her about the specific responsibility (especially of women) to have children in corporeal life.

Another friend had a thought that the Creator might have a specific task or role in life, so there is no set instruction or advice for corporeal life because of this. In my case I am autistic and I wouldn’t be even remotely fit to parent until I was older than the biological age to do so. This seems to align with this friend’s thought. Also, some men cannot marry for different reasons.

I recall when I studied here around 2008 that the advice was very different than it is now regarding everything for men and women in corporeal life. Now that I am back here it seems like BB observes the changes in the collective and quite intentionally adjusts to it. Just like there was a rule to hide Kabbalah, and then later the rule changed, and it was only because it was time for it to change. Do you think advice about marriage and children will also evolve over time?

I am also curious regarding other ways of supporting children. The dissemination materials I am interested in making would be for children. I recall you mentioned you teach children in your work.

So, the question is, what is the responsibility of the individual man or woman to have their own children?
And also, what is the responsibility of the individual man or woman towards children collectively, including the ones they are not related to?

[Logynn]

Is anything that can’t be found by searching the library probably an “innovation in the Torah”?

[Logynn]

In the stories of Abraham it is sometimes explained that he and his wife are too old to have children because they have already corrected all their desires and they have nothing more to do unless the Creator gives them more.

And in some other videos I have seen Rav describe food and eating and processing of foods as working with desires, similar to making bricks out of straw and dust. Everything is working with the desires.

And these two things made me think about the process of aging. The body makes fewer and fewer enzymes, antioxidants and substances for metabolizing foods. It secretes less hormones. It slows or shuts down some processes. I am wondering if this corporeal scenario is our interpretation of the process of rejecting desires we cannot work with, or giving up on them because we’ve experienced that we cannot achieve them through egoistic means?

If this were the case, would aging processes actually be a good sign that a lot of desire has been sorted, worked with, and rejected, and that the ones that are left are for things not in this world?

[Logynn]

Ok, that really makes a lot of sense.
I had been learning about how we don’t actually need anything but correction, and seeing it to be true a lot in my life. But I decided I would still pray for water because my trees in my yard were thirsty and how could water be anything but good? And the next day my area had a “1,000 year flood” that swept away a lot of houses.
This idea that no egoistic desire of any kind can be good is an important concept I somehow missed because I haven’t seen it explicitly stated.
Thanks for that answer.

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