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I am struggling to grasp what was “incomplete” with the initial relationship of Creator and Creation and therefore required that souls would need to go through a cycle in this world to then to return to the Creator in a corrected state and presumably to a “complete” relationship. Is it that no real relationship exists if one party only gives and the other only receives? Is the end state sought one where both parties both give to and receive from each other? I know we are taught that God only wants to give, not to receive at all … but we also are told that we give the Creator satisfaction and pleasure when we correct our WTR with the WTB for Him alone. Can you please help me penetrate this apparent paradox? Thanks.
Paul,
Do you have a son? When he was born, you hold him and love him and want to give him the world. But, what can you give him? You can’t even give him dinner or buy him a car. The newborn doesn’t even know you exist and it will take time before he even understands who you are.
He has to go through much development until he can feel you. And not until he himself becomes a dad can he understand all that you did for him. Before that he can’t understand and feel who you really are and what you’ve really done for him.
So from this example, you can get some feeling that while the Creator himself is whole, and always was whole, always will be whole and needs nothing, the lower one doesn’t even know who the Creator is and what are the qualities of the Creator that is full of love and wants to give him the whole world. While the lower one is satisfied with small games and small pleasures, the Creator still must wait and develop him until the lower one will grow and develop to want the whole world, then he can understand and feel who the Creator is and what He prepared for him.
Seth@KabU
I’m struggling to remember all the Hebrew words in my study. I usually grasp the concept when I first see it but I don’t always retain the meaning or context. Is there a place I can go, like a dictionary to get a quick memory boot for Hebrew words? I know these are very important and I’m trying, but one of my human faults is faulty short term memory. I have to read and reread something more than a couple times to retain it. Thank you.
Rosie,
Glossary:
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/60262?/eng/content/view/full/60262&mainKabbalistic Terms Glossary:
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/87475?/eng/content/view/full/87475The List of Abbreviations and Explanations:
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/2854?/eng/content/view/full/2854&mainGlossary | Appendices:
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/39054?/eng/content/view/full/39054&mainSeth@KabU
I feel that the order of the teaching materials could have been different. Why wasn’t this covered in part 1? In this lesson the word God is mentioned often. Was this done so as not to discourage students? Namely, in the first lessons we were told that you do not have to believe in God. For the record, I have no problem with it. In fact, it does something to me.
Ramar,
Shamati 1 is a very deep article that contains infinite depth.
This article will accompany us throughout our study.
Our work in KabU is to present the fundamentals of the wisdom of kabbalah in a way that every person who desires can approach the authentic wisdom. Each step is thought out according to how one will go though development in the mind and the emotions.Regarding God, we don’t even have what to discuss yet, as one must acquire new definitions for all of these words that we have from our corporeal lives…God, love, evil. We use these words all day, and kabbalah uses these words, they are certainly not the same thing. I recommend, adhering to the lesson material from week to week and investing as much as you can. If you do this, surely you will develop quickly and with a sturdy spiritual foundation.
Seth@KabU
I understand that all actions in the physical world are contained in the Creator. So how do we reconcile this with individual responsibility?
Esther,
This is a great question and is the gate to beginning to understand this very high matter.
One specifically must be engaged in all of the laws of nature of this world, as this is where the Creator put us with family, work, health, etc. and at the same time, go above reason, from a place where reason cannot reach, attain, or understand, this place is called ‘faith’, it is actually an attainment that is made specifically above reason. If there is no reason then one cannot go above reason… one could have blind faith, called below reason, or one could remain within reason, but the kabbalist engages in this world and it becomes the foundation to rise above reason.
Seth@KabU
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