[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Leah,
Our teacher, Rav Laitman explained it one time like this:

The first man was created with only bestowing Kelim, Galgalta veEynaim (GE). He did not have desires to receive, the AHP, for he still needed to acquire them. And he did not simply need desires to receive, but desires that are ready for correction, meaning desires that include sparks of bestowal.

There is no need to correct the Galgata veEynaim since this is not a person; it is an angel in the Garden of Eden. What was needed was a person with a broken soul, with all the preparations for correction, and this is why the breaking occurred.

However, breaking alone was not enough since a person does not feel that he is broken – he was born this way! Being broken, he has no contact with the Light relative to which he could measure himself and realize his state. Now he needs to gradually accumulate the definitions inside himself in order to understand that he is broken. And he does this due to two components: his desire to enjoy and the spark of bestowal. They both need to be cultivated.

He engages in this until by checking one against another, he reaches a state of disappointment. Then he can begin the correction in order to become human.

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Craig,
It means that now that I understand some things, or understand a lot of things, that now I have some control over reality, now “I” can do something.
Our goal is to come to feel, to attain that the Creator governs all of reality, to literally feel the governing force that unifies all of reality.
Of course we learn things and it helps us in life and there is no problem in that.  What we are learning here is that what is our goal really?  It is to attain Godliness.  That means to attain the tremendous, unified field of love that envelopes and operates all of reality.  When we attain that, while we still feel that we have to dress, eat, work, live, we also feel the operation of the Upper Force in all of reality and not that I am somehow some special creature separate from the rest of reality that self governs.  As if a child playing in the playground feels he is independant but Mom and Dad are standing nearby watching over his every move.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Marli,
In each and everything that we do we will bestow.
Whether you are giving or taking, walking or drinking.
The change is in the heart and each person will come to this with all of their unique qualities.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Shel,
You are in the fundamental courses.  After that you will have the opportunity to join the graduate environment where we study a very important kabbalistic article called Pticha, “the Preface”, where Baal HaSulam writes to us about the cascading of the Upper Light from Ein Sof (infinity) down through all of the spiritual worlds, the creation of the vessel (kli) all the way to the souls, the shattering of the common soul of Adam HaRishon and how we make corrections and rise up along that very same ladder.
That is where your question will be answered in depth.
In short, the purpose of creation is to create a creature and fill it with delight.
The creation, called Malchut of Ein Sof, receives all of the light of the Creator, infinite, endless Light.
But the creature is now 100% opposite from the Creator.
On is 100% to bestow and the other is 100% to receive.
What to do?  So first there is the purpose of creation and then there is the correction of creation.
In order for the kli, the creation to receive everything but not to be opposite from the Creator, the creation goes through a correction process whereby he inverts from receiving in order to receive to receiving only in order to give pleasure back to the Creator.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Shel,
Sounds good!
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Saji,
You entered a very special environment.  It will require that you slowly learn the meaning of all of these words.
We are not referring to mitzvot as a physical act that you do with your hands or with a piece of leather or with a certain species of animal.
The mitzvot are corrections on our desires from in order to receive to in order to bestow.
The physical mitzvot that you are referring to were implemented by the sages prior to the 2000 year exile in order to hold the form of the people and the culture through the long and difficult exile, they took spiritual actions and clothed them into corporeal actions.
So that you don’t get confused all of the work that we are studying is work in the heart.
This will become more clear as you progress in the study.
Good luck,
Seth@KabU

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