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[Gil]

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[mrc s]

What’s my attitude, what should I think if someone offend me.?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi mrc,

Go back to none else besides Him. Even though it’s just words. Look at yourself from the side. The more you go into yourself the more disconnected you are from the true reality.

Thanks!

Chris

[mrc s]

Like the offenses is done by the creator..?

[Joe]

What does the 10 mean?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Joe,

You’re probably referring to the group a person invests themselves into in order to apply spiritual work in a practical way.

After you’ve finished the courses here, you’ll be organized along with others on the same path, into a group of about 10 for you to begin you spiritual work with them.

This is the work of Kabbalists since you’ll learn there is no Creator without the created being. And a single person is not considered a created being. Throughout the course you’ll learn what the work is along with many answers to questions you’re not even asking yet and when you have the basics, you can begin the work.

Thanks!

Chris

[Joe]

How do we come to know the 613 corrections? How do we study the Torah or is it by reading the Zohar we come to know both things and does that start with the book Introduction to the  Zohar ?  Thank you. Also does Kabbalah speak of a person using foul language?

[Joe]

Again thank you.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Joe,

These corrections are places we are opposite to the Creator and when we “correct” those desires we use them in order to bestow. “Studying the Torah” is putting yourself under the influence of the light that reforms which brings you closer to the correction and has nothing to do with reading stories in a book. Rather if you approach Kabbalistic sources with a very scrutinized and sharp intention, knowing exactly what you want as a result of the study, then with this aim of coming closer to the quality of bestowal you are drawing those correcting forces on yourself. This is what Kabbalists refer to as “study”.

About the foul language, it’s like a child who spills a drink but has no idea it’s defined as “spilling a drink” or that it’s “causing a mess”. Of course someone who wants only to justify the Creator and do Him good has a different approach to life and how they relate to reality, but you still can’t judge an actions performed on the outside and relate that to what you imagine is happening on the inside. It’s just two different worlds. You’ll never know the inner world of someone else.

Thanks!

Chris

[mrc s]

If I experience pain/suffering is it my own fault..?

[Joe]

Thank you.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

It’s your fault as much as it is your fault for being born.

You’re in the system but our natural program which causes us to feel suffering by sensing reality egoistically. Come out of your ego and there is no suffering since what’s outside the ego is only the force of bestowal. If you’re there then you’re equivalent to that force and are fulfilled by being like it, by giving and only have a deficiency to give and bestow more and are not concerned with receiving which is the root of suffering.

Chris

[Tatjana Ristanić]

there is tzimtzum aleph, and then I came across tzimtzum bet (in “the Blueprint of creation” course), and those relate to the creature as far as I understand, but what about tzimtzum that is performed by The Creator, how is it all connected

and, one more question, Neshama seems to be the highest level to attain because…, help me with this, Mike Kellogg just said that Keter and Hochma don’t break, and that shattering is in Bina, so if you can say a bit more about it

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi Tatjana,

All actions are performed by the Creator, it’s just the will to receive which invites those actions. But it sounds like you will still benefit from getting grounded more in the basics. I’d recommend continuing with the courses and in the graduate course delving into the structure of creation. Continual exposure is always good, just don’t try and understand with your mind – “knowing more”. This will only confuse you.  You want a stable foundation to build the wisdom on and not some theoretical philosophy. This is very important. Make sure you’re just washing yourself with the material, but don’t use your brain to dive in with the intention of understanding something about what’s going on there.

Thanks!

Chris

[mrc s]

Is Life God’s game.?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Sure! The game feels awfully real to us though. Only when we assume His mind and His reason for creating the game in the first place, what the rules are, and how to “play” can we really see and feel that it’s all for our own good out of His unconditional love.

 

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