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Yes, I am sure that everyone perceived it differently. And I am also not referring to infantile giggling all the time, that was never my thing really. I am talking about the joy that one feels inside so intense that it leads to deep gratitude and humbleness. When you feel your heart so open that it can swallow the world. When you don’t think of yourself at all or what will happen to you next or what happened in the past, when past and future disappear. And you’d more cry with joy than giggle.
In that state, you cannot say that you are forcing yourself to do anything, or you feel a burden because there is no you in that kind of joy because all you can feel is love and mercy.
Or maybe the Kabbalists talk about a different kind of joy?
Hi Gianni,
One must always work with joy. Ok, but does one must show that joy, somehow? Can people sense if that person has joy? Usually, we can tell if someone has joy or not… but in this context I am not sure.
Because something has been bugging me since Unity Day and the movie about Rav. At one moment, he said that he still has to force himself to get up and go to the morning lesson, and he still doesn’t like that, and it is a burden to him, or something in that context. I felt really bad at that point…
But on the other hand, in everything we study, the emphasis is on the joy, if there is no joy we are doing something wrong, and all those things I am sure you know much better than me.
Can you please guide my thoughts here?
Thank you in advance!
Hi Gianni,
Since everything here has a spiritual root, so must the Physics laws like Newton’s three laws of motion, the law of universal gravitation,
Kepler’s law, Archimedes’ principle, Ohm’s law, Gauss’s law, the law on Conservation of Energy etc.Can you please advise what are the corresponding spiritual laws? Where can I read about the spiritual laws please?
Thank you in advance!
Hi Gianni,
What exactly is Sitra Achra? I’ve read that it is the other side, but of what? Of the will to bestow / the Creator? If so, then is it a will to receive, created by the Creator? What is the difference between the Sitra Achra and the will to receive?
As far as I’ve learned so far, there are only 2 forces, receiving and giving. So this Sitra Achra must be some degree of the will to receive, as we have multiple names for God, according to our attainment. What degree is Sitra Achra? Do we reveal it? Do we feel it? What do we do or not do with it?
Can you please elaborate a bit in this direction, or point out some materials for me to read?
Thank you in advance!
Hi Gianni,
On Unity day, today, we read
9. Rav Kook
Each one should know and understand that within him burns a candle, that his candle is not as his friend’s candle, and there is no person who has no candle. Each one should know and understand that he must toil to reveal the candle to everyone, and to light it into a great torch and to illuminate the whole world.
I have a few questions please, as I cannot get to ask Rav:
1. “he must toil to reveal the candle to everyone” – what does it mean to reveal the candle TO everyone? How do you do that?
2. But first one must find/reveal the candle in him, in order to be able to reveal it to everyone, right? What does that mean? How do you find/reveal the candle in me?
Thank you a million in advance!
Happy Holidays! 🙂
