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When students offer up complaints [about their tens] as questions, I don’t understand pedagogically why the scenarios are entertained as if “real” and given so much attention. Shouldn’t our time together be focussed on connection activities and changing our perception of reality so that we stop imagining flaws in that which has been designed perfectly to draw us closer to the Creator? Aren’t there more experiential exercises that could help us shift into living inside the new realities between us instead of so much C &A (Complain and Answer). And it is not lost on me that this is a complaint offered up as a question, so I guess pedagogically maybe it is all perfect already?
Rabash gives helpful tips of how all should show up at our workshops to inspire one another. I know nothing is redundant in terms of our corporeal traits. I also have yet to read anything in Rabash about optimists or pessimists but wonder if there is more instruction on how these two forces can best help one another in a ten? For example, we learn that descents are to be embraced for the illumination on what needs to be corrected, but we also do not want to prolong them. Can the force of optimism help to move along the dark cloud that lingers over the pessimist just a little bit? If so, how?
When I read from Baal HaSulam that “the memory of our friends left hopelessly in the terrible desert remains deep within our hearts,” I think of today’s high schools students who are suffering acutely in the unreality of COVID, where former teen-pleasure-seeking paths are bypassed as they experience nihilism at an accelerated rate. How can we throw this generation a rope down their hole?
