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Thank you, that’s been immensely helpful ☺️

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Hi, Gianni, sorry, I accidently posted this in the wrong thread…and the question was too roughly shaped… so I put it here again:

What is a description and truly the meaning of a friend in Kabbalah that allows to open up deeper layers of connection and work on them? I have been thinking about this for a while, and as the topic comes up again now, I thought maybe to ask . I understand it’s important not to repeat the patterns of relationships we find in corporeality, but if I stick to your allegory of the dojo dojo … which usually I do, because in general it helps me a lot to restrain myself more and stay focused in the work… in terms of the definition of friends and connection it confuses me.

me… If I simply  maintain the attitude of a working environment or a sports club…whoever is there to train with, it’s fine as long as everyone sticks to the rules… I suppose it’s really good to get the work started, helpful to build a functional circle, to maintain the text work… but then…how do we get to deeper layers of connection  if we limit ourselves to this? How do we make sure we develop real love of friends, and not a reading circle? How do we get to bestowal if we keep everything in the virtual realm of a lab, ignoring any corporeally induced pain/state towards each other? Would that not be using the friends… as training partners… rather than really wanting to be for them, care about them, wanting to bestow to them?  I used to train Karate and Judo… and it was easy basically to work with any partner… due to the rules. But it equally meant,  no connection needed. Now, I feel training  „love of friends” in a spiritual dojo is of course truly something different… but if we shut out all the parts that come from corporeality, what remains? And how can we be true in our work if we pretend whatever the friends go through, needs no place there? This might be a too one-sided interpretation of the dojoallegory, but I did that, because this is the point where I don’t get a clear understanding of the work and of implementating love of friends , while sticking to the allegory at the same time.

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Hi Gianni, …what is a description of a friend in Kabbalah that allows to open up deeper layers of connection and work on them? I have been thinking about this for a while, and as the topic comes up again now, I thought maybe to ask . I understand it’s important not to repeat the patterns of relationships we find in corporeality, but if I stick to your allegory of the dojo … it sounds like pretending to open one‘s heart in a limited surrounding of virtual expressions, related to text work… that‘s it. But why is it called “friend”then? And what’s the moment of deeper connection if we keep everything out and just tell ourselves, we are in a working environment?

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Hi Gianni,

About the article on giving of the Thorah… I understood that the giving of the Thorah is an everlasting spiritual process and that the light of the Thorah shines to the full extent all the time, but we cannot grasp it (like with our eyes we cannot perceive the sunlight at night). Is it that the light is always there to the full extent on the spiritual journey we discover bit by bit as we discover degree after degree? And if yes… is the (changing, as we develop) light of the Thorah  itself a goal to look out for, or rather like a lightpost guiding the way to reach the goal? So… in our work… internally and in the connection with our friends,  how shall we relate to the importance of sensations related to the light of the Thorah?

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Hi Gianni, I have got a question on how Bina works on Malchut (refering to „the Zohar Annotations to the Ashlag comentary, 49. Vision of RabbiChiya). I understood that Malchut by itself, consisting only of the will to receive, cannot correct itself. But then there  is this  „infusion“ of Bina into Malchut, over the 6000 degrees or years of correction, which gradually transforms Malchutś intention (not its essence). Ia mtrying to understand how Bina works in Malchut, how the Bina energy effects as in our will to receive, as it gradually helps us transform out intention. Is it like a constant flow of that unconditional will to bestow (Bina) into that darkness of Malchut (will to receive), which slowly, degree by the degree permeates Malchut (changing Malchuts intention, not itsessence, into „wanting to receive in order to bestow“)?  Or is it that the part of Malchut de Malchut (will to receive) becomes smaller and smaller as the Zivugim are performed on the properties of Bina in Malchut (creating places for the will to receive to change its intention into bestowal)?

In the first case I would understand the will to bestow permeates the will to receive through changing its intention gradually, bit by bit, like blending white into black, and bit by bit the dark colour becomes lighter and turns from black to anthrazite to dark grey, to lighter grey… In the second case I would understand that the will to receive makes space to the will to bestow but remains as dark as it was before…  like adding blots of white to a black-coloured place, thus creating  ore or less strong contrasts of white next to black. I feel this is something different, in terms of how it affects the work, how it may effect the resistance one feels in the work. Therefore I am asking. Because in the first case I would suppose it is a gradual process, maybe not even tangible, in the second, I would suppose the more Bina is infused into Malchut, the more resistance will grow, … I dońt have other words to describe it better… :)) Thank you

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Hi Gianni,

I was in the morning lesson, second part, and it really shifted some of my perception. I cannot so much describe this, because it is more of how it felt to be there. It was like there was this attentiveness and glow, in the assembly, and this effort, like everyone was moving to get a bit closer to that law of ein od milvado. …

I am wondering how I can form my intention for the day? How can I be aware of the creator in the day, and at the same time act as a part of this judgemental machine world full of people who dońt have this intention? How am I acknowledging that everything comes from above while I am in the play? How can I really live up to the sentence to think that everything depends on me in the morning, and ascribe everything to the creator in the evening? How do I play correctly and then let go of all these impressions I collected during the day at night?

 

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