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Music is like a time portal. It brings us to where feelings were, where they were created and experienced.

When you hear a song from your childhood, you travel back to that time and feel what you felt then. That’s beautiful and valuable. Nostalgic music serves a real purpose, it connects us to our memories and emotions.

But Kabbalistic music serves a different purpose entirely.

Think about how we work with the Zohar. When we read it and align our intentions and desires toward Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and the authors, we can reach a similar spiritual state, the same “reality” they were in when they wrote it, thousands of years ago. We’re not just reading words; we’re connecting to their attainment.

Music from Baal HaSulam works the same way. When he arranged these melodies, he was in certain spiritual states. The music carries those states. When we listen with the right intention, trying to align ourselves with him, the music becomes a portal to where he was spiritually. It brings us toward the intention behind it, like an invisible prayer.

Regular music, even spiritual-feeling music, brings you to human emotions and experiences, yours or someone else’s. That can be powerful and moving.

But Kabbalistic music brings you toward the Kabbalist’s connection with the Creator. It’s not about the feelings themselves. It’s about using those feelings as a ladder to climb to where they climbed.

When the music stops, where are you? Do you feel closer to the Creator? Do you want to study, connect with your group, work on yourself spiritually? Or do you just feel emotionally satisfied?

Nostalgic music takes you to your past. Kabbalistic music takes you toward spiritual states.

Here’s something important to remember: All of this, Kabbalistic music versus secular music, sacred versus mundane, we’re seeing it through duality. We’re making distinctions because that’s how we work in our current state.

But the Creator’s plan doesn’t need any specific music. The Creator doesn’t need the Zohar or melodies from Baal HaSulam. These dualities, sacred and secular, Kabbalistic and regular, are just a path for us. They’re tools that help us while we’re still working within perception of separation.

The music, the books, the distinctions we make, they’re scaffolding. As we grow spiritually, we understand that everything comes from the same Source, and everything can serve the spiritual path when approached with the right intention. The Creator reaches us through whatever opens our hearts.

The Kabbalistic tools are recommended because they’re efficient, they’re specifically designed for the journey. But they’re not the only way the Light reaches us.

Use music that awakens something in you. But understand what portal you’re walking through. Nostalgic music takes you to your past. Kabbalistic music takes you toward spiritual states. And remember, all paths ultimately lead to the same place. The distinctions help us navigate while we’re still learning to see the unity behind everything.

That´s the problem, I can’t so maybe I have to take time of think about it and join in the next group.

Sure. But that sounds like just continuing the same. As it was, so it will be.

If one would really think all the time, that’d be something. But we know it won’t be so.

I’m actually thinking all the time what Kabbalah has to offer, i just need to get over my ego and take a leap of faith here. Next time it will happen and I won’t quit for sure.

The overthinking part is very scientist and rational. There’s nothing wrong, but it does make it harder to navigate reality. That’s why kabbalah triggered my ego over and over. I was wondering, why do we have to learn these complicated Hebrew words? Why should we stick with words that most cannot relate to.
Then asking the question is answering it. I could give an answer, but I realize that it’s better to let people find them for themselves.