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When the created being has a sense to bestow, is that when it is considered a complete being similar to the concept of ownership and property? For example, if someone has the will to recieve, because it is only created from the light of the creator it is considered incomplete, like in the same way a student is simply recieving an instruction from a professor so he is not fully engaged, then when the desire to bestow appears it’s like he becomes an apprentice, would that be an apt analogy?
Next, about the phases of light, why are the sephirot named so and does this relate in anway to the phases of light and parzifum? For example, if we translate tifaret to beauty does this have to do with the desire to receive in order to bestow?
Lastly, if the 4 worlds exist in humanity and the body of Adam Kadmon does this mean that the light of the creator, Keter is also present in individual people? Can we sense this light?
If a person is truly awarded the quality of bestowal – that is, he crossed the Barrier to the spiritual world – then he is considered an apprentice to the Creator and learns the ways of the Creator from the Creator. But he still has something to do there, and he’s not complete: he’s on the first of 125 spiritual degrees. But he’s complete in the sense that up till then he corrected all that he could see, all that he could imagine, 100%. Then an additional place for correction is revealed. This way he climbs the spiritual degrees.
Sefirot are named that way because the Light of Hochma is from above down, and the Light of Hassidim is from right to left, and if you want to represent the way the Light enters those vessels, you can represent them with those (Hebrew) letters. The fact that they also turn out to be words people know, isn’t that important, is unhelpful for practical purposes, and that’s why in this one aspect it is even better if one doesn’t know Hebrew, at least at first.
No, what we can sense, spread among humanity, and across all times, past, present, and future – is a spark, while the first time one crosses the Barrier to the spiritual world, he reveals Light. That broken spark is what all of humanity chases their whole lives, and never reaches. What one can feel is only ones unfilled Will to Receive, which is all that he feels his whole life. Besides that, there’s one other thing, and that is the Point in the Heart, which knows how to find Kabbalah and wants that because it is a sensor that feels there is a spiritual world and wants to return there. There are only these 2 possibilities.
How do you distinguish preparation of the vessel from spiritual correction, and how should one relate to non-Kabbalistic inner work before entering a practical group?
Before entering a group, one needs to learn everything about the wisdom of Kabbalah, and develop ones Point in the Heart as much as possible. The authentic Kabbalah sources connect a person, in this Point, to the Upper Light, which reform or correct or prepare the vessel. There is nothing else to do but prepare this vessel as we reside in an ocean of Upper Light, which, in a broken vessel, actually inverts to bad. A broken vessel is what one starts with, has from birth without even knowing it. There’s quite a bit of individual advancement in this because the precondition for entering a group is general acceptance of the entire method, and for that, I need to have some understanding and feeling of what that entails.
It’s hard for me to imagine how one would already feel belonging and emotional connection. On what basis? So, certainly a private study is adequate at first. One simply needs to record upon themselves as much matrial from the Kabbalists as possible. Because there is a matter here of the Surrounding Light working. If it doesn’t work, then one also doesn’t really understand. It works a bit more, one understands a bit more. So, the study and the intention for it to change me work hand in hand. This helps me start understanding what this method is about.
How does one move from the mental idea of “we are all connected “ to opening the heart and really feeling it and not just understanding it intellectually.
Hi Yvette,
Like all things in the wisdom of Kabbalah, because they talk about a world we don’t feel, which we’re already in but don’t know we’re in, we feel it by trying already to keep the laws of the Upper World before I’m in it. How? I need a group, we call it a ten, where I can start thinking and behaving, inside myself and toward them, as if we are connected. How I am, I’m like that everywhere I am – so, if I’ll transform toward a ten, I’ll start transforming in my attitude toward all of reality.
In this extract of “The nature of matter” it is written: “It is fair to say that we haven’t yet begun the process of know
ing the anti-Creator. To feel our complete oppositeness from the Creator, we will have to emotionally decline to much lower degrees. The wisdom of Kabbalah is surfacing now because it is impossible to experience these states physically, and Kabbalah is a means of easing our way through the states of oppositeness from the Creator, to experience them in our consciousness and our minds, not in our bodies.”I am intrigued by this notion. Does it means that we are not at the words of our egoistic behavior in this corporeal world yet? What does it means? I thought that Kabbalah was revealed nowdays because we reached the bottom of our egoistic desire?
Thank you much!
Hi Lorie,
The ego is bigger than ever – that’s true. But it’s still at a tiny degree relative to the ego that has to stand against spiritual degrees. Yet this tiny ego is perfectly big enough to destroy most of humanity with nukes, hydro bombs and so on. If we reveal such near phases of its development corporeally, the handful who are left will have a life of such terrible suffering that they’ll have to correct themselves. Or, while the boot is still up in the air getting ready to kick us, we run ahead toward the spiritual goal. Either way, the end result is perfect, whole, and guaranteed.
if everything is given by the creator, including the “evil” stuff, how can I counter act the evil stuff? doing good stuff?
Yes, but the only evil in the world is actions done without a spiritual intention. To ensure my actions don’t fall into that category, I need to develop spiritual intentions. Of course, in the meantime, as there is no usual definition here of evil, and I must co-exist with all the evil in the world, I don’t ‘turn the other cheek’ when someone hits me, but hit them back, and even hit them first if I see the punch coming. Since I’m behind on my inner correction, I have to deal with what could have been inner spiritual corrections – in the material of this world. About this, there’s already nothing to do but deal with it in the ways accepted generally by society. Going forward I will try to make more corrections internally, before those corrections come as corporeal matter.
ok so basically things of the Ceasar (wordly things) belong to the Ceasar and we have to deal with those in a worldly way. But those evil things came out of me because I didn’t implement spiritual intention. So the evil is an outcome of ungodly thoughts. am I following?
Recently I was sued unjustly, I have the option to fight but I kinda believe it came as a result of bad deed I did in the recent past (not related to this) so I assumed a bad deed of mine created a consequence, so I started doing good deeds to balance my past mistakes, I always believe only your good deeds will protect you. Is this the right approach according to the Kabbalah or I have to go back to the root of my thoughts/desires?
I’m assuming that what’s happening is for something I did. I’m assuming what I did was bad. I’m taking credit for something the Creator did with me. And I’m tying these false assumptions together into a model of how the world is governed. It’s exactly like I need to please Hapi or the Nile won’t flood or avoid black cats. It’s a kind of religion, but reality doesn’t work that way.
All the bad we feel is that we’re behind in our correction, so what could have been dealt with at a higher level, now I have to deal with according to the laws of this world, which are also the Creator’s laws, at the level of this world. Here, He has police, courts, world leaders, terrorists. I have to deal with them as they are, according to normal logic, without any imaginations about invisible forces.
Do the 4 phases of Light from Keter to Malchut also reflect in the path of the individual and their desires?
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