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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.
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?
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.
In thlesson tonight there was a section that said if you prayed very fervently and had exhausted all other avenues, sometimes the Creator would answer your prayer Rav Layman wrote in his blog on January 24, 2011 the Creator could not change ( I seem to remember that I had heard an instructor say that same in a previous lesson) I’m trying to reconcile the two statements. What am I missing or not seeing. Thank you.
I have a question since kabbalah has many divisions…. One division is into sefirot, another is into worlds and another is into levels of vitality
Five levels of vitality 1.still (Inanimate) 2.vegetative 3.animate 4.speaking 5.spiritual
Kabbalah’s ladder has five stages and four steps
Now I want to know does animate aligned with sefirot BINA??
Sometimes we don’t count the root, Keter. That’s why there are 4 or 5 degrees.
The inanimate corresponds to Hochma, Vegetative to Bina…
Hello my name is Anael I’m from Sierra Leone.My question is does a Kabbalist pray?because we know that all order or religion have their prayers etc etc.
thanks you
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