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What is the difference between the efforts toward correct connection and the efforts to justify the Creator?
Dear Gianni, is there ever a time when the burden of the kingdom of heaven stops feeling like a burden? Does it still feel like a burden when He who knows the mysteries testifies that he will not turn back? What place does the prayer of Moses come from?
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Dear Gianni,
Another question from W 12 – what does it mean to “sit” as opposed to “stand”? As in Shamati 41 “Only when one has faith can one feel that he is always seated before the King.” or in Psalm 1:1 “…sit in the seat of the scornful”.
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We discussed the second restriction today in out ten meeting, relating it to the article from the morning lesson (Rabash Article 44 “What Is the Reason for which Israel Were Rewarded with Inheritance of the Land, in the Work?”) and questions came up, so I am going to ask you to clarify them if you would.
1. Is the Parsa the firmament (רָקִיעַ) described in Genesis 1:6-8? And are the waters below and the waters above, respectively bestowal for the sake of reception and bestowal for the sake of bestowal? If not, then what could they be?
2. It feels as if the Parsa itself is the second restriction. It’s like a tap that is blocked, because the lower ones don’t have a need for whatever it is that Bina has to give, which need would justify Bina’s bestowal and open up the tap. So in order to get the water running, there has to be a raising of the water below (MAN). But there also has to be something going on, some sort of action in the Parsa itself, because if the waters can’t mix, then how would the goal of getting the light all the way to the Sium be achieved? So what is the action happening there? Is it just the evaluation of whether the bestowal is in order to bestow like a membrane with selective permeability? And if it’s functioning is one-directional like osmosis, then how does the lower one get influenced to correct its desire?
3. Is it Israel (us) who is working the tap, trying to get it going, or is this not even people yet?
4. How does what exists below and above the Parsa relate to the worlds of Kedusha and of the Sitra Achra? Is the space below it the domain of the Sitra Achra?
Thank you again Gianni!
❤️W12Hey, Gianni, let me know if I got this right: while Tzimtzum Alef is not to receive unless it is in order to bestow, Tzimtzum Bet is the Creature realizing that there are desires that can’t be flipped in order to bestow so it restricts them further, not using them at all. So it’s not an ubiquitous restriction like the first one, it’s a precise and specific one made only on particular desires which slip through the net of the Tzimtzum Alef?
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