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Hi Troy,

I think we would say just wear it if you know it’ll make her happy. No reason to have it become a cause for conflict or increase any kind of tension.

We all experience these kinds of situations, so that’s normal, but don’t think putting a cross necklace on your neck brings you closer or further from the path. Remember, the most important is the intention…”intention” for what? “to do good.”

Thanks!

Hey Brad,

If you’re referring to physical Mitzvot, then this certainly has now influence on the spiritual. The spiritual world is only affected by man’s intention. In our times, the physical actions which are important are only ones that cause greater connection between those who want to connect and reach the higher goal of revealing the Creator in this world. Matching those actions with one’s inner intention for that goal draws the greatest force of correction and advance a person the most towards attaining that goal.

Thanks!

Chris

Hey sj,

This is always a fascinating topic because it puts us “in our place” and forces us to consider the true reality in which we exist.

Kabbalah explains that from the Creator’s perspective, everything is already corrected and exists in that state of the final correction. The creature however, like you mentioned, needs to actualize that. The only difference is how we arrive at that state of final correction. If we are able to recognize the state we are in and what state we need to reach, more or less, then we are the only part in creation that can use the reigns of evolution to speed up this development and therefore not rely on the natural forces that would push us there naturally. We would use the method the Kabbalists left us in order to hasten that development where we would find our free choice and our true place as the creature in front of its Maker.

The “prayer” that you mentioned would be this “delta” that the creature would feel in a certain state where they realize there are not in a place they should be. Kabbalists call this the “existing” state and the “desirable” state. If the creature feels these two then that becomes a prayer and the upper system lifts them to that next state. That’s the same process that would happen naturally as well, but the difference would be if that awareness was attained by means of an environment projecting the values and the importance of that future state versus the pain and sorrow one would feel as a result of the natural “pushing” force in reality that is always felt as something negative to the created being as opposed to something that draws them forward.

Hope that helps, thanks!

Chris

Hi Michael,

If you’re talking about attaining the spiritual reality and they reached their final correction then that soul does not reincarnate since it already reached all the corrections and that’s the only reason we appear in bodies.

Hope that was your question, thanks!

Chris

Hey Michael,

As you’ve probably heard, there’s None Else besides Him. Any thought that there are other causes, is also Him. It’s set up this way for us to first, become despaired from our own forces in trying to attain a good life and second, to have a reason to turn to Him for everything finally. Coming out of this distorted perception where He is concealed from us isn’t something that is just “handed out”, some kind of freebie, but that process is where we build ourselves and obtain a desire for Him to rule is the purpose of the whole thought of creation. This process is where we gradually reveal Him. Until then, we will always fight with thinking someone or something else has a hand in managing our reality. Stick with it, find strength in the group and continue on!

Best of luck!

Chris

Hey Molly,

The issue is it’s still an observation of the physical world. The spiritual world is perceived from within. Of course, there are phenomena in our world that are currently unexplainable and imperceptible like black holes and dark matter but looking for “spiritual forces” means searching for the quality of bestowal. The only “sense” that can perceive this force is the human who has built the receptors within to grasp this force’s influence on itself as well as in the world. This doesn’t mean that “dark matter” is the spiritual force that is hidden, it’s just another hidden force in our reality that operates in our physical world. There are many “roles” in nature’s sphere but they all operate towards the purpose of creation. Perceiving this force is attaining that “thought” of creation, understanding how it works towards that one purpose and participating with it.

Hope that helps!

Chris