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Beth,
Yes, we are talking about a spiritual intention to bestow. The mother’s relationship to her child has a spiritual root, the extends from Bina in that relation. All relations in our world are on the animal degree.
Seth@KabUBonnie,
All we need is a creature who can feel endless fulfillment.
That is called the thought of creation, to create a creature and fill it with endless fulfillement.
So how can we get there?
The kabbalists tell us that we are in a field of endless light, everything is contained in that wholeness.
But of course we don’t feel that at all.
It’s not a problem at all to be one with the Creator, that’s not where the problem is.
For example, the sun is so big that over a million Earth’s can fit in the sun.
Now imagine that you are a spark of that sun, you are made up of all the stuff of the sun, you are in there in the sun, but you are completely one with the sun, you don’t feel yourself at all, even though you are one with the sun, there is no sense of you, no sense of the power of the sun, nothing.
So in order to come to feel exactly where we are, which is contained completely in the Upper Light of the Creator (of which there is no comparison to the sun or anything else we can imagine, it is something beyond “boundaries”, called Ein Sof (without end)…in order to feel that, we were created opposite that, from that extends many operations and processes, one of them is called the shattering.As for Lishma, what you are saying is clear, but that has nothing to do with Lishma. You are talking about imagining something about the spiritual sensation with the corporeal mind. Lishma is attainment of the spiritual reality, it is something very active, it means to perceive and feel emotions beyond the material world.
Seth@KabUHi Joshua,
Let’s leave our beliefs on the side for now.
We are studying a science. Let’s try to understand what the kabbalists are explaining to us, if we are ready for that.
The Creator created the heaven = Bina and earth = MalchutAdam HaRishon that we are going to study now is a spiritual system of the collective soul where the Creator will dwell.
Seth@KabUMaika,
Wow, this is a fun question!
We exist in a process called 6000 years (of course this is not talking about calendar years, it is a qualitative measurement). In that system, we can attain the light that emanated from the Creator. However we do not attain the essence of the Creator at all.
We attain and perceive what is emanated, formed and created from the light that cascades from His essence.
And those kabbalists who reached those upper degrees wrote to us that the thought of creation is to create a creature and fill it with delight/fulfillment.
In order to do that the Creator had to create a vessel, a lack that could hold all of His abundance, this thought alone set into motion everything that has cascaded since. Our life and our work is to correct this vessel to be able to hold His abundance.
Seth@KabUBill,
Now you need to reach the busha, the spiritual shame which causes the first retriction, then the building of the partzufim, the worlds and souls and then you’ll almost be ready!
Seth@KabUBill,
We are studying a method here. You will find details that you recognize in every natural science and you are free to study wherever your heart desires.
These initial semesters are to give a person a foundation in the wisdom of kabbalah. Similar to if you are going to be a heart surgeon or a brain surgeon. At some point in your study after familiarizing yourself with the body as a whole, if you want to be an expert, you will have to choose where you will put your focus. If you focus on the brain, you will not learn about the heart, you will learn things that are connected, but as you progress in your studies, you’ll decide if this path is suitable for you and then you’ll decide if you will become an expert, to attain the root of your soul and godliness that fills it.
Seth@KabU
