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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@KabUShel,
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@KabUSaji,
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@KabUSaji,
There are very important questions and also very confusing questions.
On the one hand we have developed as we are with good reason. The nature of reality was created in a way for us to go from this perception to the eternal perception. But we do not disregard this life. To the contrary, we live a healthy life, we have a family, do good work, all of the normal things required of any creature on Earth.
In addition to that you are correct, as we are studying, this reality is an illusion. How can we discover that?
Take a cat to the opera. You will sit there and your heart will be moved and the cat will fall asleep, she doesn’t even know that there is a theatre that she is sitting in. And what about the ant crawling on the floor? He also doesn’t know about the world that you are in. There is some reality, but every creature perceives it completely different and all of that perception is based on how the creature is designed and the “operating system” in the creature.Regarding the corporeal world and time, all of these are qualitative measurements. Later we will study together the structure of the upper worlds and there it becomes more clear that we are not pointing to some planet and some world, but relations. All of this world was given to us in order to feel what is close, what is far, who am I, who is the Creator, without this external world, we would be like a piece of dust floating through endless eternity with no perception of ourselves.
Seth@KabUSwaggy,
This is a serious question.
If you observe your life you’ll discover that you are a desire to receive pleasure. Everything you think and do is only how to be in a more optimal state. And not only you, the bird outside, the atoms in air. The entire creation is a will to receive. That is the only creation that the Creator created. Take a minute and think about that.
99.99999999% of reality exists seemingly outside of us (later we will learn that all of reality is inside of us, but that’s for later). When we look at the stars, the planets, even the other countries and the sea, billions of people and all of the creatures, it is all outside of me, yet my entire perception system is made of a few openings where I let a tiny amount of data into my body and from that tiny amount of data I build my perception of the world.
The secret to your answer will be found in inverting our perception from taking everything in life to fill myself, to participating in the whole of reality as a small link in an eternal chain that stretches above me and below me and that I am a conduit for the eternal light that passes through me.
We will get into this much more later.
Now, the most important is to stabilize yourself with the foundations of where am I, who am I, where can I make a spiritual action.
Seth@KabU
