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Craig,
Of course.
Good time to make a note, it’s not a great idea to hear one line, one slogan and base my life on that.
Why not? For example, shouldn’t I say that “there is none else besides Him!”?
Yes, you should, but who will get up in the morning and work to cover the mortgage and put food on the table?
So there is none else besides Him, and He made a world where we are required to work.
The point is that we are becoming master craftsman of the soul. Nuance. Many efforts over time.
So to your earlier question, I learn, I want to learn, I want to devour all of the kabbalistic texts, I want to understand everything….and I also need to come back remembering that all of that learning and understanding helps me build my inner vessels, but I can memorize every page of the Zohar and not attain anything and attainment is our goal.
The text says that the Torah will come forth from Zion (Tzion). Tzion from the word for exits. Meaning the light comes in and leaves and when it leaves it leaves a yearning for the next degree, then the light comes in and exits and leaves a yearning for the next higher degree.
This is how we advance, also with the left and the right and also with the mind and the heart.
Seth@KabUBen,
There are many degrees along the way. They are all written about in the sources. You are describing one of the steps.
Everything is according to the desire in a person’s heart.
Seth@KabULeah,
Our teacher, Rav Laitman explained it one time like this:The first man was created with only bestowing Kelim, Galgalta veEynaim (GE). He did not have desires to receive, the AHP, for he still needed to acquire them. And he did not simply need desires to receive, but desires that are ready for correction, meaning desires that include sparks of bestowal.
There is no need to correct the Galgata veEynaim since this is not a person; it is an angel in the Garden of Eden. What was needed was a person with a broken soul, with all the preparations for correction, and this is why the breaking occurred.
However, breaking alone was not enough since a person does not feel that he is broken – he was born this way! Being broken, he has no contact with the Light relative to which he could measure himself and realize his state. Now he needs to gradually accumulate the definitions inside himself in order to understand that he is broken. And he does this due to two components: his desire to enjoy and the spark of bestowal. They both need to be cultivated.
He engages in this until by checking one against another, he reaches a state of disappointment. Then he can begin the correction in order to become human.
Seth@KabU
Craig,
It means that now that I understand some things, or understand a lot of things, that now I have some control over reality, now “I” can do something.
Our goal is to come to feel, to attain that the Creator governs all of reality, to literally feel the governing force that unifies all of reality.
Of course we learn things and it helps us in life and there is no problem in that. What we are learning here is that what is our goal really? It is to attain Godliness. That means to attain the tremendous, unified field of love that envelopes and operates all of reality. When we attain that, while we still feel that we have to dress, eat, work, live, we also feel the operation of the Upper Force in all of reality and not that I am somehow some special creature separate from the rest of reality that self governs. As if a child playing in the playground feels he is independant but Mom and Dad are standing nearby watching over his every move.
Seth@KabUMarli,
In each and everything that we do we will bestow.
Whether you are giving or taking, walking or drinking.
The change is in the heart and each person will come to this with all of their unique qualities.
Seth@KabUShel,
You are in the fundamental courses. After that you will have the opportunity to join the graduate environment where we study a very important kabbalistic article called Pticha, “the Preface”, where Baal HaSulam writes to us about the cascading of the Upper Light from Ein Sof (infinity) down through all of the spiritual worlds, the creation of the vessel (kli) all the way to the souls, the shattering of the common soul of Adam HaRishon and how we make corrections and rise up along that very same ladder.
That is where your question will be answered in depth.
In short, the purpose of creation is to create a creature and fill it with delight.
The creation, called Malchut of Ein Sof, receives all of the light of the Creator, infinite, endless Light.
But the creature is now 100% opposite from the Creator.
On is 100% to bestow and the other is 100% to receive.
What to do? So first there is the purpose of creation and then there is the correction of creation.
In order for the kli, the creation to receive everything but not to be opposite from the Creator, the creation goes through a correction process whereby he inverts from receiving in order to receive to receiving only in order to give pleasure back to the Creator.
Seth@KabU
