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Seraphim,
Rabash uses an allegory about carrying the bag of famous person. Suppose a great kabbalist came to town and you met him at the airport. You would run to carry his bag, and if he tried to pay you, you would say, no, no, I don’t need to be paid, to carry your bag, to do something for you is my reward.
We see there that serving a great person is reward, the work is the reward.
So we see that it is not swimming or eating or even carrying heavy bags that we are concerned with, but our attitude towards the Giver.
This special attitude is called a special light from above as a result of many operations below, that comes and corrects our will to receive at first say 10% as in your example, until we have corrected all of our will to receive, which means piece by piece, absorbing more of the world into myself until I include all the world in my own heart and to justify (l’hatzdik…related to Tzadik) the Creator.
Seth@KabUEizabeth,
Everything is part of the picture, all the left and all the right.
There are two matters here, one is the purpose of creation, which is to create a creature and fill it with delight.
And prior to that is the correction of creation, where we correct our vessels to feel pleasure in bestowal instead of in reception. Of course we will always receive and remain as receivers, after all the only creation that the Creator made is a will to receive, so we will remain receiving, but our work is to correct the intention from receiving in order to receive to receiving in order to bestow.So little by little, step by step a new light shines for us and illuminates some darkness and we make a correction on it and then again a new light shines and illuminates some darkness and we make a correction. There are many many emotional discernments along the way and much is sorted in the mind.
The first advice that I would give you hear is to begin to make a line and below the line is your animal life, like all animals, this includes food, family, work, bills, etc. We need to manage our life like normal people (if there is such a thing in this upside down world), but we don’t try to love the person we are making a business deal with and they end up with all the money and we end up with $0.
We make that line and above that line is where we are learning about the wisdom of kabbalah and soon we will start to practice what we learn with the friends that we are studying with. Under that line we are not kidding ourselves that the world is ready to accept “love your neighbor as yourself” and we are getting kicked around from here to there trying to implement what we learn out on the street.
And then later slowly slowly we will see how even the animate and vegetative and inanimate all become included in the spiritual and everything rises with the human.
This is all in front of us.
Step by step, slowly slowly,
Seth@KabURachel,
Everything that takes place in that book takes place inside of one person. You will be very confused if you relate everything to the Bible.
Let’s try as much as we can to learn the fundamentals that we received from the kabbalists and then when we open the Bible we will understand emotionally all of these operations and see how it all takes place in our inner world.Of course when you sin it is the Creator who made you sin, there is no righteous who doesn’t sin.
As you will read in the next answer below, everything is built by two opposite forces (which all come from Him, His singular force).
Seth@KabURachel,
Let’s leave the Creator out of this for a minute because we don’t know who He is yet and grabbing a line from a holy book will be hard without context.
But let’s say that whoever this Creator is, He is governing all of reality with two forces, left and right, minus and plus.
We can observe it everywhere, in everything.
So what we call a test or something, it is the functioning of two forces. If you were a giraffe experiencing a test you wouldn’t call it a test, just a regular day in the field.
So let’s understand that the Creator is guiding us with two forces.
Later we will understand with more nuance and specificity how, where, why, with what intensity and frequency, etc.
Seth@KabURachel,
Let’s leave the Creator out of this for a minute because we don’t know who He is yet and grabbing a line from a holy book will be hard without context.
But let’s say that whoever this Creator is, He is governing all of reality with two forces, left and right, minus and plus.
We can observe it everywhere, in everything.
So what we call a test or something, it is the functioning of two forces. If you were a giraffe experiencing a test you wouldn’t call it a test, just a regular day in the field.
So let’s understand that the Creator is guiding us with two forces.
Later we will understand with more nuance and specificity how, where, why, with what intensity and frequency, etc.
Seth@KabU
