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- February 3, 2023 at 4:06 pm EST #311602Hi YouParticipant
So let’s say a person has ten units of consciousness, ten units of awareness if you will. When this person get’s the “sixth sense” or reaches spirituality does his amount of consciousness or awareness change? Will he get another ten units of awareness or consciousness or will he have to use the ten units he already has and multitask and or split those between the spiritual and the corporeal and if so would this be tiring?
- February 4, 2023 at 8:14 am EST #311655Chris – KabU InstructorModerator
Certainly! If here is more eto perceive theres more to perceive! A person who acquires the quality of bestowal only wants to bestow more and more, and with that, they need the means to receive more and more.
Thanks,
Chris
- February 2, 2023 at 9:33 pm EST #311537mrc sParticipant
Do I curse God just by feeling bad?
- February 2, 2023 at 10:02 pm EST #311539Chris – KabU InstructorModerator
Great question, mrc. Actually, yes, but you have to add to that the understanding that He caused you to feel such a way. The question is what is your reaction to that recognition? This is where you truly have the ability to find the light in the darkness. Darkness being your cursing the Creator and not that you feel bad.
Thanks!
Chris
- February 3, 2023 at 12:52 am EST #311550mrc sParticipant
Can I choose to not curse God when I feel bad?
- February 2, 2023 at 10:15 pm EST #311540mrc sParticipant
But I didn’t curse him consciously? Can it be like Job who didn’t curse God when he suffers?
- February 2, 2023 at 10:45 pm EST #311541Chris – KabU InstructorModerator
Right but you could say it’s the same suffering the Creator feels when His creation has not yet reached its full development. We aren’t to blame, yet it still isn’t a corrected state.
- February 2, 2023 at 11:16 pm EST #311546mrc sParticipant
So the cursing and possibly anger is in the heart not in the mind and mouth/body right?
- February 1, 2023 at 3:01 pm EST #311414Adelina SantosParticipant
Hello,
What is the definition of Miftacha and Man’ula?
Thank you
Adelina.
- February 4, 2023 at 8:10 am EST #311652Chris – KabU InstructorModerator
Always in the heart first. The mind comes and clarifys the desire.
- February 1, 2023 at 10:09 pm EST #311435JenniferParticipant
Hello Adelina. I’m not an instructor or moderator, just a fellow student but I found this and hope it helps. It’s from “The Letters of Rabbi Hamnuna-Saba” under THE LETTER TAV.
“These two parts of Malchut manifest in different ways: Miftacha – openly and Man’ula – secretly. Two paths of bringing man to correction emerge from them: the good path of the Torah and the path of suffering.”
There is much more to read about it but that was the most direct definition in the passage. If you’d like to read it all just copy/paste – the letters of rabbi hamnuna-saba miftacha – into Google then select the result from from Kabbalah Info titled “The Letters of Rabbi Hamnuna-Saba | The Zohar.” When you arrive on the page press Ctrl & F together then a search box will appear in the top right corner of your screen. Search for the word Miftacha. It will take you to information your seeking. I apologize that I am unable to provide the hyperlink for easier access to the web site. Unfortunately, the forum does not allow it at this time.
—————— Dear Instructors/Moderators, if students are only to reply to each in the classroom forums and not in this forum that is directed toward KabU instructors please let me know and I won’t continue to do so. It’s just in my nature to answer questions when I’m able to do so.
- February 3, 2023 at 10:40 pm EST #311633Adelina SantosParticipant
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Thank you, Jennifer.</p>
- February 1, 2023 at 9:56 pm EST #311434Chris – KabU InstructorModerator
Hi Adelina,
A reader of the Zohar I see!
Hi Adelina,
A reader of the Zohar I see! No one explains it better than Rav Laitman I suppose. Here you go!
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/2865?/eng/content/view/full/2865&main
Malchut that stands in NE is called a “lock,” for she prevents Ohr Hochma from entering the Partzuf. The entire Partzuf ends in Hochma (the Light can only be in K-H). Hence, it is merely Nefesh- Ruach. After all, in the absence of Kelim- Sefirot B-ZA-M, the Lights Neshama-Haya-Yechida are absent. Yesod de Malchut is the 49th gate, the maximum that can be before the end of correction, for Malchut de Malchut itself is the 50th gate.
If the key (Ateret Yesod of the Light) enters Yesod de Malchut (the 49th gate), then this Light lowers Malchut to her place, from NE to Peh. This Light opens the Partzuf and Ohr Hochma fills it. This is why Ateret Yesod is called a “key.”
Thanks!
- January 30, 2023 at 11:06 am EST #311218JenniferParticipant
In reference to Gil’s latest teaching, Spiritual Meaning of the Hebrew Alphabet.
— The Light of Chochma & Chasadim, Questions–
Are these the two great lights created in Genesis 1:16?
Do the Light(s?) of Chochma refer also to the 3 vertical lines in the Tree of Life?
And likewise, do the Light(s?) of Chasadim refer to the 3 horizontal lines in the Tree of Life?
–The Letter Bet–37) The letter Bet entered. She said to Him, “O Lord of the world, it is good for You to create the world with me, for in me are You blessed above and below, since Bet is Beracha [blessing].” The Creator told her, “I will indeed create the world with you, and you will be the beginning with which to create the world.” (The Introduction of the Book of Zohar-The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba)
–Proverbs–8:22-31 I, wisdom, was with the Lord when he began his work, long before he made anything else. I was created in the very beginning, even before the world began. I was born before there were oceans, or springs overflowing with water, before the hills were there, before the mountains were put in place. God had not made the earth or fields, not even the first dust of the earth. I was there when God put the skies in place, when he stretched the horizon over the oceans, when he made the clouds above and put the deep underground springs in place. I was there when he ordered the sea not to go beyond the borders he had set. I was there when he laid the earth’s foundation. I was like a child by his side. I was delighted every day, enjoying his presence all the time, enjoying the whole world, and delighted with all its people.
Question: From these two passages they appear to tell the same story but, one refers to Binah (understanding) and one to Chochmah (wisdom). Please explain…I feel I’m missing something. Or is it that they Chochmah was/is with God performing creation and that Binah works with Chochmah to teach men?
Proverbs 8:1 “Doeth not wisdom cry and understanding put forth her voice?” …or is it that when forming the letter Bet the student begins its stroke at Binah (understanding) then goes to the right Chochmah (wisdom) and then through the Zeir Anpin to become the manifested knowledge of Malchut?
Thank you for sharing your time, insight and patience with me.
- January 31, 2023 at 11:23 am EST #311288Chris – KabU InstructorModerator
Hey Jennifer,
I’m not 100% sure what you’re asking about here. The letters represent the ‘values’ of Hochma and Hassadim (from Bina). You could say the Sefirot that emerge one below another are due to the spreading of Hochma.
Attainment comes from the one who attains from below-upward. Meaning, Malchut needs to rise each time upwards through ZA to Bina.
It’s important to know what the letters are and where they come from, but to dive into them expecting to take something spiritual from it is the wrong approach. The letters represent the forces that ultimately construct all of creation – not something we can grasp at the moment. It’s not necessary to delve into all kinds of philosophies to try and understand something we simply can’t currently. The correct approach is to read these texts, build some kind of minimal understanding, basic foundation, and from there aim for the light that reforms to change our inner qualities to be similar to the qualities of the Creator. From there we can understand His thought and His creation.
Hope this helps. Thanks!
Chris
- February 1, 2023 at 9:13 pm EST #311430JenniferParticipant
Hello Chris and thanks for your quick reply! I will try to break up my questions into smaller pieces starting with the letter Bet. I’ve taken a screenshot from the lesson showing how Bet took the path from Bina to ZA to Malchut; not to achieve attainment but to receive the light of the Creator. This will be my first time attempting to add an image to a post so hopefully it works. If it does not it is from marker 54:03 of the lesson of “Spiritual Meaning of the Hebrew Alphabet.” It was this that lead me ask about the path of Bina (understanding) to Chochmah (wisdom) to Malchut (man). I am confused at your comment saying I should not expect to take something spiritual from the letters because the title of the teaching is “Spiritual Meaning of the Hebrew Alphabet.” Hope this helps clarify part of the Bet part of my question. Again, thank you for your time and patience. It is appreciated.
- February 1, 2023 at 9:49 pm EST #311433Chris – KabU InstructorModerator
You got me! You’re right, but we still have to use the word “spiritual” to basically describe something that is not absorbed or understood in our current state of “in order to receive”. So, even though we receive knowledge about something spiritual (this is our entire study in the preparation phase), it’s not attainment, meaning, there’s no emotional understanding.
The letters themselves express a spiritual action but what do we get from knowing that? It’s important to be familiar with what Kabbalists want to tell us but there’s no way of understanding/feeling anything until we attain it ourselves. It’s like trying to explain to a small child some advanced concept. Even though you’re breaking it down and trying to make it as simple as you can, the concept itself is just over the head of the child. They simply can’t grasp the concept of, for example, sharing your toy with others. You can explain it up and down and all around, in all kinds of ways how it’s more beneficial for everyone to share but they only see what they see on their level.
You’re not missing anything. In fact, the “question” or this deficiency in understanding is what we need to feel the need for the Creator. Receiving some intellectual answer in our corporeal minds actually relieves this need – puts out the fire/desire. I’m saying this just as a little tip for the future, and balancing the lack of understanding with the “answers” is key to continuing “straight” on the path. Otherwise, we will very easily want to absorb all the spiritual concepts in our worldly minds thinking we’ve attained something but in reality we’ve just put rocks in our pockets. You will always have unanswered questions, but as we progress on the path we can begin to arrange ourselves in a way that uses this deficiency/lack of understanding as a plea to the Creator for bestowal instead. We will never enter spirituality with our egoistic minds that see the benefit in bestowal because the ego will never see the benefit of bestowal.
We can say Bina wants to bestow and give to the lower ones, and it does this by using ZA but I don’t have an emotional understanding or a spiritual understanding of this. Certainly, the entire purpose of creation is for us to reveal everything, know everything, become incorporated with all of reality, and there’s a system in place to develop us and prepare us for such states. The light of Hochma is the light of the Creator which we were built to receive within us, just as long as it is “in order to bestow”. We need to arrange the quality of Bina to rule over us so we can use it to clothe in Hochma. You could say “understanding” is being similar to the Creator on that degree, the willingness. When you have prepared those vessels of bestowal, but do not yet have the ability to bestow, this is when Hochma is given and this is attainment/wisdom.
Hope that helps, thanks!
Chris
- February 1, 2023 at 10:20 pm EST #311437JenniferParticipant
Thanks Chris! Your words do help. Especially after reading your reply to Adelina (which I saw after I replied to her). Many of the words you used in your reply to her where foreign to me. I could easy spend hours looking them up and learning them. Thank you for your patience with all of us!
- January 30, 2023 at 9:10 am EST #311210mrc sParticipant
Is the body bad.?
- January 31, 2023 at 10:55 am EST #311287Chris – KabU InstructorModerator
Hey mrc,
The wisdom of Kabbalah defines “body” as the general will to receive. In our world the physical body is just a temporary and necessary means to disconnect from adhesion with the Creator in order to return to adhesions but independently and consciously.
There’s nothing “bad” the way we think of it today. “Bad”, according to Kabbalah only refers to its role in pushing a person away from the Creator, yet with the intention to ultimately bring them closer.
Thanks!
Chris
- January 30, 2023 at 9:10 am EST #311209mrc sParticipant
Is wordly things not good, beautiful, pleasurable?
- January 31, 2023 at 10:52 am EST #311286Chris – KabU InstructorModerator
Hey mrc,
Whatever we sense in reality, this is the Creator. Pleasurable – the Creator. Not pleasurable – the Creator. Good and bad, that only depends on a person’s degree. Good can be pleasurable to my will to receive or, if it’s more important for me to give pleasure to the Creator instead of receiving it – then we are in equivalence of form.
A person enjoys this world and its pleasures until they no longer fulfill them and the search begins to find other pleasures. It’s like a child who enjoys a toy car to play with until they grow up and that’s no longer something they want to play with and instead, they have a desire for a real car.
Thanks!
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