[Sagar]

Hi Gianni,

In letter 37, Rabash states:

… as for separating love of friends from the work of the Creator, I do not understand it at all because it was never the custom with Baal HaSulam to connect those two together.

And then later on:

Therefore, I am not sure what innovations you are trying to make. Perhaps until now you believed that for love of friends there shouldn’t be discussions or engagements in matters of work, and now you know for sure that this is the only way it should be, meaning by walking humbly.

Does this mean that we are not supposed to share our innermost states with the friends in our ten but should connect with the friends’ states instead or does it mean that we should entirely refrain from talking about states at all and only focus on the path and work itself?

Or is this letter only applicable to a certain situation (to which Rabash was replying) and not applicable in a ten?

Thanks for you time.

[Sagar]

In the end, they suffer from both sides—from the increase of pain due to the multiplicity of movement, and from the regret at not having the possessions they need to fill their empty half.”
– Chapter 2: The Boundaries of Joy (From Chaos to Harmony)

Diminishing such desires is obviously not the goal of Kabbalah, from what I have read and experienced, the greater our ego, the more we can realize that there is something greater out there that we might be missing out on. But as a side-effect (not necessarily a negative one) of understanding this concept and maybe practicing it in a 10, do we move beyond such desires? Do we not require such materialistic desires to move us then?

[Sagar]

We can do so by studying Kabbalah and exercising our “spiritual muscles” i.e. allowing our vessel to receive the filtered light through the screen so that we can make sense of our reality.

[Sagar]

We want it to lead us beyond our five senses to be able to open our consciousness and be one with the creator by making our qualities the same as his.

[Sagar]

I hope to gain a deeper understanding of the cause and effect of the cycle of happiness and sadness in my life. This I hope will make me understand my purpose in life.

[Sagar]

Hi, I am Sagar from India. I came across this beautiful wisdom through my wife and although it did not register that deeply into my consciousness at that time, later events in my life made me realize that there is indeed a meaning to the cycle of suffering and enjoyment in our lives. I hope to learn and better understand this, to what end that I do not know for now.

Thank you for making this available!

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