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If I stick to going to Kabbalists for answers to my spiritual questions, will any negative influences from my previous spiritual involvements quickly wane? I wish it were as simple as just leaving my previous tradition, but I feel like I have to pull it up by the roots. It has some undeniable psychological or spiritual basis that greatly affects the body-mind. I know that there’s a lot to Kabbalah, and I just want to make sure that I can gradually attain the Light while climbing the spiritual ladder even if my previous involvement in another spiritual tradition was deep. I know that setting the foundations right will be important, and I feel like I’m having to lay them over previous foundations, if that makes sense. I am not new to spiritual pursuits.
I study Kabbalah daily at this point in my life. I’m working on improving the quality of my study, but rarely a day goes by that I don’t involve myself in the wisdom.
The Reforming Light can do everything. There are no bigger or smaller problems for it. To the extent I want a solution, which will be different than any solutions I imagine, it will untangle and correct everything.
Hi Gianni,
In today’s afternoon lesson the instructors shared a quote from the Kabbalists: Love that is dependent, when the dependency is cancelled, the love is cancelled. (around 17 min) And that is an egoistic love.
But then again, I will ALWAYS be dependent on the Creator, I have nothing to give unless He gives me, so does that mean that I will always love Him egoistically? Even if I get the will to bestow, He will have to give it to me and “maintain” it, so me being not dependent is never going to happen, one way or another. I find this very disturbing. Can you please help me understand better?
Thank you so much!
No, there’s a correction that only the Creator knows how to do, called Lishma, where He gives us a new nature, so that I am like Him, and our mutual dependency is revealed, as “there is no Light without a Kli,” no Creator without a Created Being. He’s really suffering without His Created Being and we, on the other hand, can wait until tomorrow or next week…
Hi Gianni,
Kabbalah says that everyone has part of the ego that needs to correct, and by correcting himself, he corrects that part in everyone. And Baal HaSulam has done all 125 corrections. So, what happens when one corrects everything he should correct, like Baal HaSulam? He just sits and waits for the others to correct their parts?
Thank you!
There’s still a reality that is according to that uncorrected person’s perception, that they still dwell in a shattered perception. A Kabbalist can reveal all the degrees of perception, but cannot open up the World of Truth for others. After all, they don’t want it yet, and “there’s no coercion in spirituality.” They have smaller, nearer goals they’re still busy with. And to the extent of the Kabbalist’s Equivalence with the Creator, he suffers from this fact – that people are both suffering and don’t want to come out of it in a way that accords with the laws of reality. I heard also that for such a Kabbalist there is also something that is not revealed and cannot be until that last soul corrects himself, through his free choice, and joins all the others who await him in the Garden of Eden.
Hi Gianni,
In letter 37, Rabash states:
… as for separating love of friends from the work of the Creator, I do not understand it at all because it was never the custom with Baal HaSulam to connect those two together.
And then later on:
Therefore, I am not sure what innovations you are trying to make. Perhaps until now you believed that for love of friends there shouldn’t be discussions or engagements in matters of work, and now you know for sure that this is the only way it should be, meaning by walking humbly.
Does this mean that we are not supposed to share our innermost states with the friends in our ten but should connect with the friends’ states instead or does it mean that we should entirely refrain from talking about states at all and only focus on the path and work itself?
Or is this letter only applicable to a certain situation (to which Rabash was replying) and not applicable in a ten?
Thanks for you time.
Hi Sagar,
You’re right, there’s something to question there. We won’t be able to clarify it all the way because it’s Baal HaSulam.
Gilad Shadmon was asked about sharing inner states at the congress and his simple answer was “keep something for just the Creator.” What to keep, is one’s own scrutiny.
It’s certain that I need to disclose to my friends and advertise the greatness of the path, the greatness of the Creator, while remembering I must be inferior, the lowest of all of them. Then, when a friend speaks, it’s the Shechina speaking from his throat, and I need to drink up the Light that comes from him. This circle of influence is possible without anyone disclosing their inner states.
I’m hesitating to write this but I am just juxtaposing a couple of things – my tribe, my people, I dwell among my people – and the illusion of separateness and the trying to correct that and reclaim the sense of the connectedness of everyone. Perhaps a counter-argument could be made that it is precisely when I do not feel a connection but only a sense that this other deserves to be loved – that this is the better example of bestowal because then it is not because the recipient is ‘mine’ or ‘of me’ at all.
Sure, in words, it seems so – and later, there is something correct about what you’re saying and there’s an approach to it – but first, a person has to connect because before he does so he’s simply something so far from spirituality that the wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t even talk about him, and he has no spiritual action – not this way or that way.
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