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Michael,
Lishma, “for Her name” refers to for the sake of the Torah.
The Creator dresses in the Torah and Lishma refers to the Torah.
Seth@KabUPera,
Some people love hugs, they want to be hugged all the time. Other people hate being touched. So if you are hugging with all your heart someone who hates being touched…so you’re not really giving. Or if a person can’t pay his bills and you make him a great dinner, so he may like the dinner but maybe he prefers that you would have spent the money not on dinner but on his bills.
These are not spiritual examples, but you need to clarify more what is happening in the situations you are describing. There is much more nuance and flavor than simply “she won’t receive what I’m giving”. Maybe it’s not the right season. A cat goes into heat during a certain season, that’s it. The cat is not interested in a mate at other times, just when her nature awakens her.But if you want to make a spiritual calculation, there is absolutely no limitation on how much you can love the other, bestow to the other in your heart, pray for the other. Start with this and see each time how you discover your ego behind the prayer and each time try to cut out that ego and start anew and again and again.
Soon you will have a need for the Creator to really come and answer your prayer.Seth@KabU
Zachary,
You know when you feel warm and you know when you feel cold because you have senses to detect that.
When you acquire spiritual senses, you feel spiritual sensations.
Seth@KabUNuria,
Everything emanating from the Creator is called “good”.
The extent that we don’t receive it as good, is the exact measure of how far we are from that state called “good”.
If we receive something “not good”, it in no way affects the source of that thing which emanated from the Creator as good.
Look at our lives in for example a historical context.
What good could you possibly receive as a newborn?
The newborn does not even perceive itself, so just to be fed, to be cleaned and to sleep is sufficient.
Then we became teenagers and we wanted a boyfriend or a girlfriend, a little money to spend on the weekend.
But a teenager didn’t want a low interest rate mortgage and second home on the sea.
Now, stretch that back 100,000 years, what did our primitive ancestors want? Shelter and a piece of meat.
So the desire needs to grow in order for the Creator to be able to fill us, eventually with endless delight.
And this is a long process with many discernments until we come to realize that I cannot satisfy my ego and that I come on my own to a realization that I need Him. That is the reason for all of the discomfort, just to push us to Him, just so we will eventually feel that it is all separation from Him.
Seth@KabUJoão,
The Creator desired to bestow all of His goodness upon creation.
In order to do that, He had to make creation 100% to receive.
Now all of our work is to learn to receive (kabbalah means receive) in a special way where our receiving does not separate us from Him.
Later in our study we will learn all of these processes in much detail.
Seth@KabULeyah,
There are many nuances to all of these things and there is no one size fits all answer.
We should understand that everything that a person does is to satisfy the self. This should become very clear to us, if it is not yet clear we should examine ourselves more seriously.
At this part of our study, we are learning some foundational principals. Later we will learn how to apply them to our lives.
Good luck,
Seth@KabU
