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[Gil]

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[Enoon]

First, thank you, I have learned a lot in the little bit of time here the information is fulfilling. If one seeks a more personalized instruction face to face how can one or should one seek a teacher or will this naturally play out since the question has been asked? I feel constrained by the distractions of the world and feel like I need a more private contained environment. I truly want to devote my life to learning as much as I should.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi Enoon,

Once you’ve completed the graduate environment and if you choose, are moved into a ten, this is where you will begin learning “only the flesh” as we say. Before then, currently, this is the only structure we offer but I promise it’s sufficient to give you the basics before you begin the practical work. Desire certainly is the most important. Try your best to stay cleaved to the environment here; all the available sources, clips, and other media you would ever need.

All the best,

Chris

[Enoon]

I can see the light in you, forgive me but I see a beautiful soul a perfect creation in an imperfect state. Is this the truth?

[Enoon]

I feel a higher calling like this was not exactly my choice but I was chosen to be given the choice to seek this path if I didn’t know anything about Catholicism I would join a monastery and become a monk. But my beliefs of the Romans I will keep to myself for now.  I want to return to being a cave dweller. I have a connection with nature, the instinct of a cat stalking it’s pray. I want to talk about these things almost as if it were a need. I think it is the story of rabbi Akiva that created the humanoid without a brain, this is the knowledge I seek, but I have no desire to create a humanoid, for the mistake was realized and  corrected. Hope I am clear in my intentions thank you.

[David Mancini]

The Creator sends me after desires lower than that of spirituality causing me to miss the lessons sometimes.  Why is this?  Can I do anything to convince Him to make me more like a veteran?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey David,

Of course He does. How else are you supposed to build a desire yourself?! His treatment of us on the path is confusing, especially in the beginning since it’s so opposite to what we’re used to in this world. If I love someone, then I give them gifts and show them my love. That’s easy, since all of us have the desire already to receive those gifts. However, in spiritual matters, in building a desire for something that is not known to our nature, not known in this world, then the acquisition of this desire comes as a result of not attaining specifically the desire – not the reward.

Don’t think veterans don’t receive the same treatment, and “worse”. It’s only the matter of the society that holds them and this is up to how much they invest in it themselves. It takes a while to begin to feel how that works, yet still there are new things that are surprising at each descent. That’s how it works. “Never trust yourself until the day you die.”

Best of luck, David.

Chris

[David Mancini]

I have been studying for 3 1/2 years and I still see separation, division, hatred in the world.  What could I be doing incorrectly to cause this and how can I get to the end quicker?

[Exalt]

Hey David,

I’m not an instructor — in fact I’m very new here — but I was just reading an article ( http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/42596?/eng/content/view/full/42596&main ) that you might find helpful and I hope open discussion here is okay.

I like the Baal HaSulam quote in particular:

From all of Nature’s systems, presented before us, we understand that in any being of the four types—still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, both as a whole and in particular, we find a purposeful guidance, meaning a slow and gradual growth by way of cause and effect. This is similar to a fruit on a tree, guided to a favorable purpose of finally becoming a sweet and fine-looking fruit.And go and ask a botanist, how many phases the fruit undergoes from the time it becomes visible until it is completely ripe. Not only do its preceding phases show no evidence of its sweet and fine-looking end, but as if to vex, they show the opposite of the final shape: the sweeter the fruit is at its end, the more bitter it is in the earlier phases of its development.

Hang in there man, and don’t take the journey for granted.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Mancini,

Yeah, that perception is just an indication of your inner state – as you know. I wouldn’t say you caused it, or that you’re doing something incorrectly, but it’s something that’s being shown to you to bring you closer to the truth. Although, you will see all different kinds of opposite forms in the world which emerge as an indication of lack of correction and this will continue until the final degree. Our whole work is building a lack for the quality of bestowal within us without looking for reward in any way. The closer we get to even understanding what the wisdom of Kabbalah actually is, the more confused we become. Until we can emotionally grasp what our work truly is, where it is, what to expect, how to react – until then we are just discovering what it isn’t. 

No worries! Keep on going. There’s no such thing as “skipping ahead”. I’ll probably bring up “computational irreducibility” on the show because it’s a great example in this world for that rule of not “skipping ahead”.

Best of luck!

Chris

[Annmarie]

In the book From Chaos To Harmony by Rav Dr. Laitman, page 160, 2nd paragraph it states: “Today the ego has reached it final degree…” What does this sentence mean? And what is the final degree? I think it was relating to our final correction, but I’m not positive if I’m thinking correctly. I am also curious as to who estimated this bit of insight to the final degree? Was it Dr. Laitman or one of our other esteemed Kabbalist’s who had this insight?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi Annmarie,

This is referring to the point of development in humanity where the ego has carried us as far as it’s going to carry us on this degree. The desire in humanity in general has surpassed all degrees. The desires for food/sex/family, wealth, knowledge and power have all been exposed and everyone feels these desires to some degree. Of course that’s not a “spiritual ego” which is revealed when a person begins engaging in a desire for betowal which will then awaken in them greater resistance. This is the true ego. From the context you brought from the book, this is referring to the development of humanity which hasn’t begun to develop on the speaking degree yet.

Thanks!

Chris

 

[mrc s]

Is this world the branch of the highest spiritual world (ein sof)  where G-d resides?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey mrc,

If you’re referring to the “root” of existence, this is what the creature discovers once the final correction has been completed for every piece of the soul that was shattered.

Chris

[mrc s]

Is G-d in the world of ein sof or higher?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi mrc,

Kabbalists explain that “the Creator” is the degree above the one who perceives Him. Meaning, the force that governs all of reality by the quality of bestowal is currently concealed. If one moves closer towards building that quality in themselves, they can then feel that He is concealed. The revelation of that governing force occurs when a person reaches equivalence of form…on that degree. The next degree, the pattern continues until the final concealment which Kabbalists label as the 125th degree.

Thanks!

Chris

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