Nice question Todd, look forward for the answer

I think it’s all about how’s the spiritual path and goal you set, and shape the situation based on that…

Hey Todd,

This is why working in a group is the only way. We help one another keep this “ball afloat”.

This is the only way.

Chris

Hey Todd,

Absolutely not.

Hi Todd,

In general, many Kabbalists in the past chose laborious jobs so their mind would be free to engage in spiritual thoughts, whereas if they were to take jobs which demanded them to be more devoted in other ways, this would be less appealing for them. This usually meant the physical work was pretty difficult, especially in previous centuries, but now most of the jobs take most of the “mind space” so, this approach is a bit more difficult for students in this era, but the idea is still relevant.

Thanks!

Hi David,

There’s no way we can logically understand it in our corporeal minds. If we lack the perception of the quality that governs all of nature, then we can’t even depict to ourselves the “thought” of how it operates – its “nature”.

There’s no just way. You can keep asking questions about “why?” but the answer will always be, “the Creator is Good that does good.” If you were to suddenly understand and feel that this was actually the Creator’s mercy and good intention, there’d be no doubt of His providence and you’d be addicted to His revelation. This of course is what the system of correction refrains from – that we wouldn’t just be shown but that we ourselves, from the lowly place, would rise to a high place on our own where from the opposite nature we attain the good nature.

You could extrapolate this question to any “evil” thing occurring in this world, you (and many others) tend to ask about the worst atrocities since surely if there was only a singular force in reality and it was good, it wouldn’t allow such things to happen. But really, we can’t justify the small things either, but we can somehow maybe logically understand that somewhere buried in the pain or struggle I or someone else experienced, it made them “stronger” or something like that, but like you said, we don’t understand what a “correction” is until we experience that every moment is actually a correction and sometimes there are calculations such as those where the “whole” is considered and not the “particular”.

Nature only considers the general development of creation towards the end goal. Nothing will stop the engine from moving in that direction. The created being will eventually reach that goal. The only question is how quickly. Can we awaken ourselves and cycle through the necessary states of awareness of our egoistic nature and demand correction, or will we need to be awoken from this external world in the form of pressures, stresses, pains and troubles?

Hope that helps,

Chris

Hey Todd,

You can imagine to yourself, that if the ego was receiving some of the greatest pleasures, there’s no room there to think about the spirituality you don’t have. This is just how we work. You can consider it “lucky” that you didn’t win the lottery.

Thanks!

Chris