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Dear Team,
How do I ever come to it, I mean, the arrival at a prayer for the friends imbued with power sufficient to cross the barrier and extend beyond my ego and reach the goal?
Simply wishing, earnestly wanting, thinking of your friends powerfully so, continual striving all seems so futile.
I’m concerned that all such endeavors, which I undertake daily, simply fall foul and become nullified and worthless. Worship, superstition, knowing things by rote, simply repeating things, carrying out worthless actions, making offerings and so on, all lead to a stagnant way with no progress.
How do we ensure that we do not fall into this modis operandi while thinking of the friends and yearn so strongly that we are actually progressing for them, when in actual fact, such thoughts and wants and wishes are  invalid as offering a bowl of rice to a deity or any other worthless action in truth?
Thanks, Lyndon S.
I can’t determine in advance if a recipient I don’t perceive receives it or not. If I determine in advance that He doesn’t – ok – so I’m like everyone. They’re sure that no one receives their prayers, because they always have prayers in their hearts, and they don’t get answered. Or, I decide I’m going by Faith in the Sages who tell me that “many pennies accumulate to a great account.”
Can I come to the environment every day and only want to absorb as much as possible because of its greatness? Is this somehow harmful? Is it lacking an effort to bestow? For example reading the sages I want the text to work on me I want to connect with the heart of the Kabbalist. Can I apply this more broadly?
In addition to our corporeal names, such as Salvatore or Todd, do we also have a unique spiritual name? Does our soul possess a unique name, or are we nameless or akin to Adam in the spiritual realm? Alternatively, could we be like a 600,000-sided die, a single entity with numerous unique facets?
I am unsure of the appropriateness of this question but led to ask. I heard the Rav say that his students help lift him higher. I am not sure if I have a correct understanding of this statement with what I am going to ask. Currently, it is difficult for Rav to do some of the afternoon lessons. I have heard Rav say in the lessons which students he feels could lead these lessons. If a student were to actually lead an afternoon lesson that the Rav could not, would this help lift the Rav higher?
It’s not realistic for us to go into these calculations. The Rav could do what he does to provide his students opportunities to be independent, or it could be for health reasons. It could also be that one can have special forces to work even though he is not in the best physical health. We can’t know with certainty about the state of one who is on a higher degree than us.
Thank you Gianni for last sunday’s lesson: The power of Mantras.
Question: Prayers are not mantras? What is the power of prayer then? Amidah, 18 prayers ,19 blessings. Can you eleborate on this, please, to make me understand more about redemption, the blessings we need ? To adress our prayers more truthfully?
There aren’t really mantras in Kabbalah. As I said, something I just repeat can have a psychological effect, and that’s it. A prayer really needs to be one that is close to the heart, something I really feel that I’m missing and only the Creator can grant. Also, the blessings you should bless should be real for you, and not what is written somewhere. The Eighteen Prayer – half of it refers to Direct Light and half Reflected Light – it’s not realistic for us yet.
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