[Seth – KabU Instructor]

lukasz,
All of reality is built of ten sefirot. That’s it.
All of our senses are the same structure, the development of our thoughts are the same structure, our desires are the same structure.
Keter
Hochma
Bina
Zeir Anpin (contains: Hesed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod)
Malchut

From this comes the structure of our senses, our organs, etc.
Regarding thoughts and desires, that’s a different subject.
We are at our essence a desire.  Our thoughts arise in order to fulfill our desires.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Scott,
Let’s say as the kabbalists do that we are in a field of endless light right now, complete fulfillment.
But let’s say for example that you brought a cat to see your favorite band.
The cat sits there licking her paws and you are dancing, singing, reminicing, crying, jumping and the cat…nothing, no reaction.
So, similarly the cat is in a room filled with energy and doesn’t feel a thing.
We are in a field of endless fulfillment and don’t feel a thing.
Why?
The cat doesn’t have vessels to feel what you feel.  She has ears, but the vessel is not the ear itself, the ear is the preparation for the vessel, the vessel is the desire to enjoy that is developed in you to feel so many more nuances in the air then the cat can feel.

Now let’s go to our second point.  The kabbalists write to us that the Creator wants to create a creature and fill it with all of that endless light.  Since there is no time in spirituality, that “action” is done the moment that thought arises.  So opposite that bestowing force of fulfillment appeared a receiving force big enough to receive endless fulfillment.  That complete receiving desire is called Malchut of Ein Sof.  We are not yet talking about anything material, there is no big bang yet, not this world, nothing material yet.
We will learn all of this in great detail in later classes.
But when you wrote about some god level egoism, you’re barking up the right tree we can say 🙂
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Sharon,
First, you need to clean up the previous concepts that your brought with you to the wisdom of kabbalah.
We are not bestowing yet.  To spirituality bestow is a very high degree that means that a person acquired a spiritual screen and is working in two worlds, this world and the spiritual world.
You are referring to how people behave in this world.
According to this world, you need to take care of yourself like every creature must.
In the meantime, separate the spiritual definitions from earning a living and taking care of your necessities.
On top of your necessities you can build your spiritual life.
Like a house that has a foundation in the dirt and upstairs is a beautiful table set with all the delights, but nevertheless, it sits on a foundation of rock.
We also need to stabilize, food, family, money, etc and when we have at least what we need to be healthy and stable we can acquire the Torah.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Sean,
Nice observation.
You’ll see when we start studying the structure of reality how accurate your depiction is.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Shel,
Your curiosity and the development of your questions is correct.
You will have to get used to that the answers in the wisdom of kabbalah do not enter a person’s ear.
It is correct that in wrestling in your mind with the concepts and formulating the questions, this is the correct method.  But that you will hear a few words and that will resolve the question, that is not correct.  Our method is built on questions and answers, this helps us to build in our internality a correct vessel.
You can speak to your son about going out on his first date, but until he is there on the date with the apple of his eye, with all of those emotions and chemicals coursing through his body, this he needs to go through himself.
So we can speak a lot about what will happen after you acquire a spiritual vessel and what will you feel there and what will it be, but this doesn’t mean anything to us except for fun facts to write in our notebook.

So, for fun, let’s give you some fun facts for your notebook 😉
All of our study deals with a process called the 6000 years of creation.  Of course you should already know that we are not talking about how many times the earth travelled around the sun, these numbers all speak of qualities, not quantities.  That 6000 years is the time for the correction of the vessel until the “end of correction” when the entire vessel has changed from reception to bestowal.
Keep in mind that during this entire time we remain as a desire to receive, this is the creation that the Creator created.  Currently we are a desire to receive with an intention to receive.
All our work is to draw the light that develops us to invert that intention to receive into an intention to bestow.
In spirituality proximity is measured by equivalence of form, so as we become bestowing, we become like the Creator, more than like the Creator, it is called that we are in dvekut, adhesion with the Creator..until we reach the end of correction, this is the degree that the authors of the Zohar wrote to us from.
What happens in the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th millennia, our books don’t speak.
When we get there, we will know.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Jennifer,
We can use the expressions, will to bestow and desire to bestow interchangeably.
You gave an example from corporeal life where something is so important to you that you were able to do something that you otherwise wouldn’t.
This is a natural conduct of the world.
I don’t want to wake up early to go to the gym, but I want to be healthy and being healthy is more important to me than sleeping in.
This same conduct happens in towards our spiritual work however, within our will to receive it’s impossible to truly have a desire to bestow.  We can behave like we do and this is correct, this is like what children do when they learn to be like adults, they play.  And when the time is right, nature makes the child into an adult, releases new hormones, grows the physical stature, develops the mind, the small teeth fall out and larger teeth come in.
So in spirituality, we play bestowal and the light comes and it gives us the will to bestow, actually it’s the intention to bestow.  The will to receive will remain, as the purpose of creation is to fill the creature with endless delight, so we must receive, but with the intention to bestow.
Seth@KabU

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