What does it mean that we begin by correcting the smallest desires first? How do we know what the smallest desire is? How do we identify the desires and rank them from smallest to greatest?
A few times I have heard in lessons by the Rav, the story about how Rabash would say “let it suffer” in regards to his corporeal body. I am very sure that a kabbalist does not believe in masochism and would not want the students to ever think that that was the case, I rule that out definitely. What can I learn from Rabash in this, and how can I use it in my own corporeal suffering? I believe Rabash was showing that he was trying to minimize the corporeal body’s importance and also to accustom himself to be able to handle corporeal suffering in the correct way?
What are the Hebrew root words ofcontentment, receive, and to bestow. I seem to know what to receive means but is there more to these words used in kabbalah and do they translate to english directly?