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I have been so grateful to Be getting back to studying as i get stronger. I have been thinking ‘oh I can’t wait ‘ But as I get stronger the feelings are just the opposite. I get depressed and appear to be making up excuses not to study. Things like ‘what should i review first?”Should i read early in the day or late at night.’ It’s ridiculous. I know it’s ridiculous but where are the feelings coming from? I know this isnt coming the Creator, but what’s causing this?It’s like I’m throwing rocks in my own path. I’m powering through to make a routine for myself and thereby
get into a routine . Thank you, SallyIf I move away from the path, even for a legitimate reason, it will be harder to start – like starting a bicycle. The slower I go, the harder it gets. From a full stop, it’s the hardest. From a standstill, I have no heart or mind that can guide me except away from spirituality. I have to simply get moving without thinking and replace my thoughts with those of the Kabbalists. Like I’m a recording device, I need to simply reinstall all these materials on my hard drive.
How does one deal with so called heartbreak, there was atopic video about it on youtube but i didnt understadnd Rav, when dealing with despari and fear of the future, what do you do? I mean maybe the asnere is easy, go to the creator but how?
If I use it to turn to the Creator then it’s spiritual fuel, which I don’t always have. If I truly refine this fuel into prayer, then on the one hand, the fuel is used up – the pain seemingly dissipates – and on the other hand, I raised a true prayer. Ultimately, this whole world is for turning into prayer. It needs to become a prayer of many, a prayer that arises out of connection with and is for others. How to go from an individual prayer to that, is a scrutiny.
okay, Help me out here, my image of a prayer that makes an affect is passinaote outcry on your knees, despreta for help. At the moment i dont have the pain to generate such fuel yet i feel like in suffering do i wait for another situation of suffering? When you say a prayer of many, do you mean a prayer that many people also raise (like in general people pray alot for guidance) or that the prayer i make should be for many people out there?
I can sense that what im feeling and wanting to pray for, others also go through and i can rationally think ok, let me pray this for others aswell, but it dosent feel like a burning sensation right now, yet i really want to be elviated from this experience
So, there is what’s called a prayer Above Reason. It’s not exactly what I want, but what others want. I need to integrate with them to understand what they want so I can correct and raise that prayer to the Creator.
Also, it doesn’t matter what you do with your body. You can stand on your head. What’s counted is the extent to which this is the one and only thing that I want.
Working on love of friends, to really feel them close to your heart, will correct one’s attitude to all of reality. Hatred of the world is disagreement with the Creator, who does all things and only does good. There are no people in the world who have any kind of free choice, except for the illusion that they are deciding what they do. So, I disagree with the Creator who is the one whose operating these puppets. It turns out that I want the Creator to change; while the Creator wants me to change first. I work on that change in the way I constantly upgrade my attitude to the friends. And I can start changing my attitude to the Creator by at least recognizing that it is with Him that I disagree and that that is not how I want to be. I want to agree with Him and change myself.
I told a rabbi in a debate “the attainment comes first; it is followed by the actions that stem from it.”
His response….But the Torah reverses this sequence explicitly and deliberately.
At Sinai, Israel says:
“We will do, and we will hear.”
– Exodus 24:7
Action precedes full understanding. This isn’t a deficiency to be corrected later. The Talmud calls this statement Israel’s greatest moment of spiritual clarity.
Doing before fully comprehending is not the lower stage – it is the covenantal structure.
The Sefer HaChinuch states that character follows action —
the heart is drawn after deeds.
Attainment grows through physical performance, not as a prerequisite to it.
End quote***
Aren’t there examples of the patriarchs even going back to adam that they attained spirituality before the Torah was given? Before the temples was built? What does “we will do and we will listen” really mean regarding action first?
He’s right. He’s doing a good job, let him be. If let’s say I have such an argument can turn his world upside down; so then I erase him: he must drop everything and study Kabbalah. And in that, he’s no longer a Rav or anything else but someone who has to begin from zero. It’s forbidden to wrestle down a religious person. Besides, he has a role too.
For Kabbalists, “we shall do” means that toward the next degree, I’m always like a child, zero, a beginner. I have to thus go above reason, and then after I fully do that, I’ll “hear”, understand, attain.
I need to pull myself back into study. Rav says how important it is to be aligned with weekly torah portion. And we are encouraged to watch morning lessons from Israel. But the diaspora is a week behind. What do you do?
Unsolvable problem of spacetime.
There’s an inanimate level propriety to certain things. But Kabbalists worry about that only in a secondary way. Extreme example: Kabbalists from Kotsk celebrated Shabbat on a Wednesday- if that’s when they reached that state. That’s not for our kindergarten to start toying with. But the most important flow to be in is that of the world Kli. What everyone is doing will be closest to the goal because even wrong together is blessed.
Hi!
I’m so grateful to finally be on this journey I didn’t realise I was seeking up until a few weeks ago 🙂 . I’m finishing my second semester of the course, and so far it’s made everything feel like it’s falling into place — life makes much more sense and I’m enthusiastic to learn more.
However, around the lesson “There is none but Him,” an intense feeling of emptiness appeared out of nowhere. I can’t explain it as a reaction to anything in my daily life — on the contrary, I’ve generally felt balanced. It is unlike anything I’ve experienced before. My usual self-regulating routines (painting, running, meditating, CBT, sleep, diet…anything) don’t touch it. In fact, as the beneficial effects of those actions fade, the void intensifies. When I focus on it, I get instantly overwhelmed (as if I am suddenly breathing the air with insufficient oxygen is best I can describe it). As someone with a counselling background, this is baffling to me. It’s an intense sense of lack that I can’t locate or rationally explain. If it’s related to the course, it doesn’t feel at all like what one would expect “drawing the Light” to feel like — rather the opposite. I might be missing or misinterpreting something. It’s starting to affect my daily life and is making it difficult to stay motivated. It’s been a few weeks and it’s wearing me down.
I’m not sure what this is, but it seems like it may need regulation on a spiritual level? If so, I would be grateful if you could share resources or advice to help me understand and address this state.
Thank you
Hi Jelena,
I can only say that it’s normal and part of the process. There exist a number of states before a person, which are predefined. One of them is the emergence of the Point in the Heart. It doesn’t belong to this world. What is it actually? The rest of this world is one’s desires to receive pleasure, while now appears within me a desire that isn’t like those desires. Were it for ice cream, I’d know what to do – but with this new desire, it’s in me, bothering me, because it’s a desire that has no fulfilment in our world. One of the most intense desires I’ve seen is a long-time smoker who for many hours now can’t smoke. Now you can offer him any other pleasure in the world – he’s truly not interested in those, but only in the one, most important thing for him right now: smoking. But at least he knows what he needs. With the Point in the Heart, I can’t find fulfillment for it because its fulfilment is truly across a Barrier that separates our world from the spiritual world. As with the smoker for whom food, sex, family, money, etc. ar all fine but don’t give him the only thing he really wants and therefore these pleasures become quite muted for him, the Point in the Heart is really the most vitally important thing in reality, and thus dims other pleasures. So what do I do? I need to develop this Point in the Heart to a greater extent so that inside it I can begin to feel the spiritual reality. It’s like a dot of matter inside a womb. What I feel in it is barely called existence yet. It’s some preliminary cells. If it develops, it will start feeling the spiritual reality. It’s my soul, an eternal thing, the feeling of which transforms my whole feeling of reality.
In short, it’s a stage one just has to go through.
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