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Interesting question thx! I’m from Asia

Kabbalists, over thousands of years, critiqued and formed the method of Kabbalah we have today. What our teacher received from his teacher which each time is more adapted to the generation. What we have, the method of working in a group and the discernments we acquire from that work are what Kabbalists instruct us to do as the best way of engaging in the wisdom in our times.

There’s a lot a person could see when they look around at other methods and teachings, and could most definitely take all kinds of little customs or traditions and weave them into the study of Kabbalah, but we learn this only lengthens the path of ultimately reaching the point of crying out for the Creator to help us rise above our egos. Therefore, we suggest sticking to what our teachers suggest.

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Hey mrc,

This is like a kid who wants to put on mommy’s or daddy’s clothes, step into their big shoes and play ‘adult’.

This is part of our learning, our growing. We basically are “playing” with the idea of bestowal until it actually becomes important to us.

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Hi Sarah,

We cannot bestow anything, we as the will to receive as our nature have nothing of “giving” within us. We have nowhere to take it from. However, the nature of the Creator is opposite of ours and we use His qualities above our nature – the will to receive – in what Kabbalists call “intention”, meaning, how do we use the will to receive? Do I use it for my own sake or for the sake of others/the Creator?

If the intention is the same as the general force of nature then this light, the pleasure, the force of the bestowal, the Creator’s quality flows through us to others since this is the nature of His quality. “Flowing through us” is how we receive, which is why this wisdom translates to “the wisdom of reception” – how to receive.

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Chris

Hey David,

The entire thought of creation was to take something utterly remote from the Creator and raise it to His level. To create such conditions to allow this to happen and make these conscious steps as an independent creature, a system needed to be put in place for that to happen. Just as we see in our world how a child develops and grows – these are the natural systems expressed in the growth of a child undergoing many accumulative changes like we see in our world. That program is an example of how nature develops us, but when it comes to developing the speaking level in us, there is another, higher system which takes care of us and nurtures us as we grow. When Kabbalists talk about that system, they give names to each component and describe how they interact with other components, etc.

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Hey Mary,

Jus the opposite actually. Anything in the spiritual world has a branch in the world. The upper world is the world of cause. No action in “this world” can influence the root.

The change in perception is coming to understand what the correct attitude towards this is and where you find your choice in this whole system. We ultimately have a choice somewhere and that point is exactly where we feel the true “I”.

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Chris