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So, I need to convince myself, and keep convincing, that the friends are doing this only for spiritual goal and nothing else?
But bestowal means I want to do all good to and for the friends, and I do not know what that good is, what will actually help them. Sometimes kindness is not the answer…
So, only the intention matters. Then what is the right intention if not a desire, but for the sake of other people? I need to (rather ask the Creator to) develop a specific desire called intention?
Hi Gianni,
After reading the article from Rabash 291. Man and His Role, I need help to understand the issue that arose in me.
The girl mimics her mother, and plays with a doll, but she is not yet ready to take pleasure from playing with a real baby. But, if she hadn’t had the example of the mother, she would not have thought that she could play with a doll and take pleasure from that. So, in order to get the desire for the “real thing” one must have an example first, a dummy, and then try to mimic it, i.e. must have a desire for the dummy first. I guess this is Lo Lishma.
But I have not seen/felt bestowal (so I don’t have an example from a mother with a real baby). I understand, with my mind, that what you do, Rav, all friends etc. is a bestowal, but I do not feel that different than any other act of corporeal kindness or correctness or even friendship. So, there is no way I can ever understand or feel what bestowal is, even “false” one, in order for me to get the desire to mimic that. Meaning, I do not understand the difference between Lo Lishma and corporeal kindness. How do I start differentiating those two things?
Thank you in advance!
Hi Gianni,
Shamati 114 says: We must understand why a prayer is considered “mercy.” After all, there is a rule: “I found and did not labor, do not believe.” The advice is that one should promise the Creator that he will give Him the labor afterwards.
What does it mean the advice is to promise the Creator that he will give Him the labor afterwards? What is promise here? What does it mean to promise?
It’s still “do not believe”, so whatever one might think they found, it’s not what the Creator wants to give, it’s an imagination, right?
Thank you in advance!
Hi Gianni,
In today’s afternoon lesson the instructors shared a quote from the Kabbalists: Love that is dependent, when the dependency is cancelled, the love is cancelled. (around 17 min) And that is an egoistic love.
But then again, I will ALWAYS be dependent on the Creator, I have nothing to give unless He gives me, so does that mean that I will always love Him egoistically? Even if I get the will to bestow, He will have to give it to me and “maintain” it, so me being not dependent is never going to happen, one way or another. I find this very disturbing. Can you please help me understand better?
Thank you so much!
Hi Gianni,
Kabbalah says that everyone has part of the ego that needs to correct, and by correcting himself, he corrects that part in everyone. And Baal HaSulam has done all 125 corrections. So, what happens when one corrects everything he should correct, like Baal HaSulam? He just sits and waits for the others to correct their parts?
Thank you!
Hi Gianni,
Me again 🙂 Letter 39 from Baal HaSulam: “…Tell him that all his ways are as this deed, whose intention is good but the deeds are not good, and everything follows the act…”
I thought intention is most important, but this says otherwise. Can you please help me understand?
Thank you in advance!
