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  • July 20, 2020 at 1:14 pm EDT #33838

    Gil
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    • October 19, 2025 at 5:11 pm EDT #460696
      Sally
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      Dear Friends In a passage in one of the readings from Kabbalah Revealed, Implenting Free Choice, it stated that the usual definition of the word ‘faith’ is opposite to the definition of ‘faith’ when kabbalists talk about it. Ive re read that a times and think i understand but when i go back i realize i really don’t.
      of Thank you, Sally

      • October 19, 2025 at 5:21 pm EDT #460697
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
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        Faith is used in several ways in Kabbalah. There is faith below reason, which is the ordinary religious definition: I believe because it’s what I was told. It’s not that I was told by someone who knows from their experience. There is also faith in the sages, which is that I follow the experience of one who personally attained the Creator. And finally there is faith above reason, which is bestowal that is called above reason because I attain bestowal above my quality of reception, called reason.

    • October 17, 2025 at 5:44 am EDT #460359
      Babini
      Participant

      Good afternoon sir I have a question

       

      Ohr makif and ohr penimi meaning

    • October 15, 2025 at 3:18 pm EDT #460013
      Daniel Alvarez Grisales
      Participant

      Hi Gianni, hope you’re well.

      Quick question from my kabbalistic practice: I’ve been thinking about how to transform very physical, mundane actions (for example, cleaning and tidying my home or cooking for myself) into real service for the minyan and ultimately for the Creator, using the idea of a masach (screen) to redirect my intention from personal comfort to bestowal for the group.

      Is this a worthwhile practice to try? Practically speaking, do small actions like this actually help the group’s spiritual work, or is the effect mainly psychological for the doer?

      I’m curious whether this can be a practical, sustainable way to serve the minyan (not just a private exercise). Would appreciate your honest experience and any concrete tips.

      Thanks!

      • October 15, 2025 at 10:25 pm EDT #460040
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
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        I didn’t see such a practice in Rabash’s writings, but I heard that we should pray for the ten all the time, ask the Creator for them. If you can do this over each of the different parts of your day – that’s something. That’s the question. Over which states can you nevertheless come to connection with the friends, and prayer to the Creator.

    • October 14, 2025 at 8:26 pm EDT #459768
      Anael
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      Hello Sir please does witchcraft exist?because plenty people had been reported been victim of it.

      • October 14, 2025 at 10:20 pm EDT #459786
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
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        No and yes. Most of it is imaginary, and what there is is the ego, which can harm others. By thinking bad of others, you harm them. However, you harm yourself at the same time, several times over. You can do all kinds of rituals around this, but you can also get rid of all those rituals, and what is left is just the ego that thinks of harming others, and when I think ill of others, I harm myself.

        So, they harm themselves, and on the other hand, my positive and kind attitude, an attitude of bestowal to others turns into a shield through which negativity cannot penetrate.

    • October 14, 2025 at 1:17 pm EDT #459743
      Katel
      Participant

      Excerpt from Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

      “That is, the pleasure and joy that the will to receive takes should be with the aim that there is contentment above when the creatures feel pleasure, as this was the purpose of creation, to do good to His creations. This is called the joy of the Shechina above.”

      Questions:

      1)        When I feel pleasure, like eating, resting, or feeling appreciated, etc. how do I know whether my enjoyment is egoistic or directed toward contentment above?

      2)        How can I sense the Creator’s contentment in my pleasure if I cannot perceive Him directly?

      • October 15, 2025 at 2:54 am EDT #459863
        Anael
        Participant

        Than you very much Sir.

      • October 14, 2025 at 2:10 pm EDT #459747
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
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        One should always be in contact with There Is None Else Besides Him. However, the pleasures that are of the same kind that all animals receive are not the pleasures that the Creator enjoys. Rather, those are called, “neither praised nor condemned.” But be in the feeling of There is None Else Besides Him, and He is the Good Doing Good, and these things too will take their right relationship to the path.

        • October 15, 2025 at 12:00 am EDT #459796
          Katel
          Participant

          So what exactly is Baal HaSulam trying to convey in this excerpt? It’s still not clear to me.

        • October 15, 2025 at 10:28 pm EDT #460042
          Gianni – KabU Instructor
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          First you have to live a while in what I said. Then, you’ll know. Around the clock, in the feeling that you’re standing before the Upper Force, it’s a good Upper Force, doing good and only good to you and to everyone, and that you want to return this goodness with your every thought and action.

        • October 16, 2025 at 1:49 am EDT #460049
          Katel
          Participant

          Got it Gianni!! Thank you so much.

    • October 6, 2025 at 3:16 am EDT #457848
      Babini
      Participant

      I have the question

       

      The is nefesh, ruach, neshama,, haya, etc…… Which one correspond with bina

       

       

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