Due to the congress, we felt ourselves moving slightly away from our ten and closer again, like a pendulum swinging back and forth, changing the degree of our connection with each other or with the Creator and our attitude toward the study. Strength and desire diminish, weakness sets in, and then strength comes back. Each full period of the pendulum’s movement back and forth, rising and falling, does not pass unnoticed; it leaves an imprint on us.
It seems that a person of strong faith should always find the strength to overcome any state without losing connection with the Creator, either in sorrow or joy as if nothing could shake him or disconnect him from the eternal union.
But in reality, this is not the case. A person who aspires to the Creator experiences constant changes. They must feel greater and greater weakness, but at the same time know how to achieve more confidence and adhesion with the Creator. Thus one keeps advancing and growing.
If a person doesn’t feel such changes in himself, no powerlessness and uncertainty, no descents, and fear of straying from the right direction toward the Creator and the purpose of life, if they don’t worry about this, then this is precisely a serious cause for concern.
One needs to engage with the group as quickly as possible, with all one’s might, so that through it the person can begin to receive the surrounding light that will change him or her.
If it seems to us that everything is in order and nothing bothers us, then it is time to worry.
In this world, the one who advances without feeling a heavy burden is considered strong. They add another ten kilograms to his back and he keeps walking, another twenty and he keeps going as if nothing happened. This is a strong man, a hero!
But in spirituality, it is the opposite. A hero is someone who is very sensitive to every gram added to him along the way and immediately turns to the Creator with a request to correct the lack of confidence and strength to bestow.
Spiritual advancement is different; it is in increased sensitivity. The Creator adds to us in quality and quantity, and we always have the opportunity to ask Him for new strength through the environment, and so advance.
Advancing on the path depends only on the changes one feels, which the Creator awakens in him. Each time, I need to understand my weakness and how to strengthen myself in order to continue. Naturally, I lack faith and the force of bestowal. Therefore, I increasingly need the environment and the Creator to add to it, to turn to the Creator through it, and thus to continue on the path.
Everyone needs to check for the changes the congress induced in them. One feels rejection, another feels attraction, and a third one has fog in his mind and feelings. Some cannot find themselves in the ten; they look at the friends and do not feel them and see them in their heart as before. Involvement in the larger ten affected him in such a way that he lost the old connection he had with his friends.
There are many post-congress phenomena we cannot ignore while we wait to get back to our usual routine. I need to check what is happening to me and why, and how the congress has affected me. This is very important.
Everyone in the ten feels differently, and we need to check whether we can return to our previous state or whether our new state is much clearer, higher, and sharper.
After all, we began to appreciate the connection between us more, and understand why we return to our ten to be together. We not only follow the advice of the Kabbalists, but we already realize that without it we will not have the confidence or strength to advance; there will be nowhere to draw strength or to turn to the Creator from.
The ten turns into a spiritual source for us, a spring. We feel enabled to stabilize ourselves in it and return to correction. Each of us has a special property, like the ten Sefirot. Therefore we are very different. But we are connected by a common work and a common goal. Thus, from ten people, and no less, we can form a complete attitude toward the Creator.
The ten turns into a Kli, a tool, we can change something with, influence something with, and connect with a wider or higher level.
The center of the ten is a tiny needle’s eye through which I pass into the spiritual world. To do this, I have to restrict all my thoughts and desires and compress them into one point to lead me to the upper world through the center of the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/16/19, “Hardening of the Heart – An Invitation to Ascend”
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