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Dyrk,
In addition to whatever else you are studying from the resources on the site, invest yourself in these fundamentals. Everything is built on what we are learning now.  The taller the building, the deeper the foundation needs to be.
Seth@KabUFrancisco,
Very nice questions.
Everything that we see is clothing of the light in the form of inanimate, vegetative, animate and speaking all happening before our eyes.
So to answer your first two questions, while we can dwell on and contemplate the wonder of all this and the confusion of how it is possible, instead, try this on. That what we see and how we see it is a reflection of the current state of our desire. How, why, we will learn, but what I am perceiving is somehow me, all of this is my desire. It’s a lot, all the other countries and planets and the fox and my refrigerator….this is how I perceive my desire.
When that desire grows and I build a spiritual screen, masach, over it, I will perceive the same reality differently.
Imagine that the sunlight travels 90 millions miles through space and it is cold in space and it is very dark in space and then that sunlight after 90 million miles hits the surface of Earth and it’s hot and we can see light. So even with corporeal light, it needs to hit something in order to perceive it.
And so we need the correct screen to put before the spiritual light and all of that will illuminate. It’s very exciting and it is all before us.
And a Big Bang that took place 14 billion years ago, and evolution, etc. that is also according to our perception.
With a different perception we would perceive something else, in the meantime, this is how we perceive and we can’t disregard that this is the picture that the Creator is showing us and what can we learn from it.
Lastly, while Darwin starts at the beginning and then goes through the evolution of species. The kabbalist on the other hand starts with the final goal already and then everything that is happening is leading us to that final goal. We start with the endless light, that light cascades down we will learn this later it’s called the 4 phases of direct light, then there are many processes and operations that take place the first restriction, the building of the partzufim and the worlds, the souls, the shattering and then the creation of material reality. The kabbalist traverses these steps back up the ladder.
Seth@KabUJoseph,
You are bringing so many snacks to the party you will not be able to enjoy anything that has been prepared for you.
I recommend that write your questions in your notebook in the form of one or two clear sentences per question with a question mark at the end.
For example:
1. What does it mean that the Creator hates to be a receiver?Just write them, don’t cover them with all of the stuff you are bringing from everything else you already learned. You are leaving no room in your heart and mind for what we are learning.
There are very clear answers for your questions, but you won’t be able to hear them anyway. Answers in kabbalah don’t go in the ear.
Listen, the only thing that the Creator created is the will to receive and that will to receive will remain until the end of correction. The Creator does not hate you or anyone, the Creator is a 100% force of love. So what does “hate” mean in kabbalah? OK, that’s another question. Write it down.
Every cell, every animal is a receiver, including us. We need to receive, since the Creator wants to fill us completely. So He bestows and we receive. But then we are just an animal, an angel. But, if we want to receive in order to receive, with an intention to receive, so this is the source of the problems, in this we feel separate from everyone else, this is where our identity comes from, I need this car, I need this honor, I need this money, I need this respect and this separates us from the integral, whole system.
So our work will be in the intention, that we remain as receivers, you will still receive food, sex, money, honor, everything as usual, but our heart and mind slowly get upgraded so that everything we do we do in order to bestow.
This is all ahead of us.
Keep up the passion, but calm down on the interpretations or you don’t leave room for what you are learning to enter.
Seth@KabUJoseph,
If you cannot deal with contradictions than you are going to have a very hard time and here and will not be able to succeed.
The wisdom of kabbalah is the wisdom of the how the Upper Light cascaded down from Ein Sof all the way down to this world at the bottom of the world of Assiya and then how we can rise back up along those very same steps and in the process, build the vessels to feel each and everything so that the instead of being a spark inside the sun with no sense of itself, we will achieve adhesion again with the Creator, but in full perception called holding it in the hand.So how can a piece of grass comprehend what a dog is feeling and how can a dog comprehend what a professor is feeling?
The next degree is always above us and from our current degree there are contradictions and then we rise a degree and those contradictions are no longer contradictions from the higher degree, but then again what is above us now is again felt like a contradiction and again we rise, etc.Seth@KabU
Joseph,
At its root your question is about the relationship between Malchut and Bina and we will spend a lot of time in future courses studying the Preface where we delve into the machanics of the upper worlds, sefirot, partzufim and how reception extends from bestowal and how they mingle eventually leading to the shattering (also known as the sin in the garden…), etc.
Seth@KabUEuler,
We are in a process called the 6000 years of correction. Of course in the wisdom of kabbalah we are talking about qualities and this does not refer to Earth’s rotation around the sun, but about the ascent through a process of development.
There is also the matter of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th millenia which we are not yet engaged in.
The purpose of creation is to create a created being and fill it with fulfillment.
In order to do that the Creator created a desire to receive all that He wants to bestow.
However as we will learn, this means the creature is 100% to receive, which is 100% opposite from the Creator.
Therefore the creature and the Creator are as far apart as possible, therefore we have the process of correction where we can receive all of the delight and pleasure from the Creator but in the form of bestowal so that we are one with Him.
All of this that we attain in this process of correction is what emanated from Him.
We are not attaining His essence in this process.
For example, in your essence there is you, but at work, you are in the clothing of boss or employee. At home you are in the clothing of dad and husband. With you parents you are in the clothing of son, etc.
So we are attaining the clothing of the Creator, the lights that dress on reality that we can attain and feel.
We are not reaching his thought during this 6000 year process.
There are those who reached the highest degrees and describe that what emanates from the Creator is a force of bestowal, 100% giving and we on the other hand are 100% to receive.
Let’s chew on that for a bit and return to your question in a few months.
Seth@KabU
