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Hi ,my question is anytime creator brings us all we feel or see as bads things we take them as His good deeds to us to develop and after accepting all these as good is not enough,what next step should we take after accepting everything He send to us?
Hi Fredrick,
You’re right, it’s not enough to simply think that the Creator is good, if my senses deny this. Bu still, I should try to work above the feeling, toward my spiritual environment. I need a group of people on the same path, to imagine I’m together with them. This includes the group, the books, Kabbalists. In short, I need to immerse in an environment where there are thoughts besides my own thoughts. I won’t be able to rise above everything with what’s inside me. I need forces from the outside.
Hi Junior,
You mean you want to keep it all for yourself? Or you don’t want people to find out you study Kabbalah? Or you don’t want to make the effort to disseminate it? All these are perfectly healthy for now. It’s enough and very healthy that you develop yourself for now.
Thank you for this answer. I didn’t realize all the possible answers that my question could have implied before asking until reading your reply. I wish to publicize knowing the wisdom is worthy of it. Each day I get better at revealing the creator. The second sentence in your reply in the form of a question makes me so ridiculously happy that I can be considered crazy if a random person saw my facial expressions right now. This means, I secretly want people to know that I study Kabbalah. The effort to disseminate appears to be easy for me and I’m self aware of it. You’re awesome Gianni.
An answer to the question posed about religion has been that religions are simply customs.
But customs are not a small thing. Customs create reality in a way, like for example a vegetarian will have a very different body from a meat eater. The same thing can apply to sexual preferences, grooming, dress etc.
So how can a student accept that religion is not important when the law forbids practices from certain religions and permits others? It may be exaggerated to go into law, but at least socially, rules apply differently according to which customs you follow, which congregation you are a part of and so on. So we all want to maximize pleasure, should every one not be a follower of the true religion?
The reason Baal HaSulam writes that everyone can keep their customs, even in the end of correction, is because if the Creator is revealed, nothing remains of religions except external customs, since all else is predicated on the concealment of the Creator, the Upper World. Thus, when one attains the spiritual world – which someday everyone will – religion instantly disappears.
Hello :),
I have many questions:
Awakening to Kabbalah
Chapter 1 – The Great Kabbalists Throughout History, pp.1-23P 3
“Adam was the recipient of the first Kabbalah book: The Angel Raziel (Hamalaach Raziel).” He sensed the two worlds and described them in his book containing interesting drawings with explanations and diagrams
Adam Really wrote it!?P 5.
The book of Abraham the Patriarch, The Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzira). Why was/is it very far removed if it is full of benevolence? The world needs benevolence today, now!Moses. He was ordered to make Kabbalah known to the “whole humankind.” But Abraham wasn’t doing that before? Abraham always invited people to his tent to talk about Kabbalah. Now, at time, humankind was already all over the planet, and the order was making kabbalah known to all humankind. Then why did Moses just do it in that small geographical area where he lived. Moses must have known the meaning of “all humankind,” isn’t it?
Pp 6-7
“The Torah describes a certain era in human development, but it actually refers to the spiritual roots. “ I understand this duality, but I cannot stop thinking that it is very convenient almost like a manipulation or propaganda that every human personality from Adam, lived their lives only and exclusively to “represent“ in the language of branches, like outer shells with flesh and blood figures such as Moses and Pharaoh, animals and nations, and with names of objects, feelings, and actions the spiritual forces that come from the upper world to ours. All of them are from the same cultural, geographical and social group.Pp 8-9
“The vertical line, the light that descends from the upper force, from the Creator to the creature, is a personal sign…,” meaning that it is a personal, subjective sign/message/communication between the Creator and that specific person, the individual who studies The Torah?
So, if “a person who looks at the letters of the Torah, provided he or she has learned to read it correctly, can see his or her own past, present, and future through the combinations of dots and lines” means that the Torah has as many interpretations as qualified people read it or study it correctly?“Mitzvot (commandments, precepts) of “do” (positive precepts) or Mitzvot of “do not do (negative precepts).” Mitzvot/mitzva are as well as the correction of one of the 613 desires from egoistic to altruistic, the transformation of a quality of one of the 613 desires from its egoistic expression, right?
Also, there are 613 desires but recently I saw a video in Kabbalahinfo that mentioned 620 instead of 613. Could you clarify it?
Pp 11-14
To write the Zohar, first Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai hid in a cave in with his son Rabbi Eleazar. They sat in a cave for thirteen years, eating carobs and drinking water from a nearby spring. Their clothes were torn, so to stay covered, they buried themselves in sand. …
Didn’t they lose their minds? Didn’t they hallucinate?Why for 13 years exactly?
If Rashbi was the sole author of the book of Zohar, why is his son mentioned that he was also writing the Zohar while going thought the same ordeal as Rashbi in the cave?
Then, Rashbi gathered ten disciples around him including his son Rabbi Eleazar and Rabbi Abba.
Why if Rashbi trained, taught and ordered the nine disciples to write the Zohar, then it’s kept only naming Rashi as whom “both wrote it and concealed it.” They mentioned Rabbi Abba and Rabbi Eleazar in a minor way but why aren’t the other seven disciples mentioned and given the authorship as well if they were primordial in the success of writing the Zohar? What happened to them?When I read about Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai that “He is also among the most important sages of the Talmud” and that “his name is mentioned there some four thousand times,” and that he is practically the sole author of the Zohar, it makes me wonder aren’t the kabbalists attributing him a big ego, a great arrogance while ignoring everybody else?
Why it just mentioned Rabbi Abba as the kabbalist that wrote the Zohar in Aramaic, Greek and Latin? What didn’t mention the other nine writers?
In Kabbalah, everything is well planned and foreseen. How then is it possible that the Zohar was rediscovered merely “by chance” five/six hundred years after being buried? Chance/luck doesn’t exist according to Kabbalah, isn’t it?
At the same time, everything is/was well documented (if it wasn’t orally passed) from Adam to today, but we don’t know the name of the kabbalist that found the 2700 pieces of paper that was then the Zohar, wasn’t he that important?
Nor the Arab merchant that found these pieces of paper along the way and who was permitted to use them as fish wrapping, how is that possible?
And why was/is allowed that many parts of the Zohar were/are still missing?
P 17
“… “Eight Gates.” … “He (The Ari) explains the laws of the upper world, how humans influence these laws, and the reincarnations.” … Humans influence the laws of the Upper World! Isn’t the Upper World, the world of Roots impossible to be influenced by the World of Branches, by the human world?Thank you very much for your attention and I apologize for the many questions.
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Jose-Carlos
(1) The Angel Raziel (Hamalaach Raziel).” …Adam Really wrote it!?
That’s what the Kabbalists write. A Kabbalist attains all the Kabbalists before him. These are degrees. Thus, one can attain the degree of Abraham, and write from that degree. So, attain those degrees, and you’ll see who wrote it, and what it means to write.
P 5.
The book of Abraham the Patriarch, The Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzira). Why was/is it very far removed if it is full of benevolence? The world needs benevolence today, now!People today can’t use that book right away. They need a source that is closer to them. All the Kabbalists since Abraham adapted more and more the very same method of rising from our world to the spiritual world. The closest ones to us are Baal HaSulam, Rabash, Rav Laitman. Without them, and before understanding and attaining them, we can’t truly understand what came before.
Moses. He was ordered to make Kabbalah known to the “whole humankind.” But Abraham wasn’t doing that before? Abraham always invited people to his tent to talk about Kabbalah. Now, at time, humankind was already all over the planet, and the order was making kabbalah known to all humankind. Then why did Moses just do it in that small geographical area where he lived. Moses must have known the meaning of “all humankind,” isn’t it?
Better not to mix history with spiritual degrees. Moses is a degree. Abraham is a degree. You have to attain those degrees to understand history. Even our historians are deeply confused in their understanding of history.
Pp 6-7
“The Torah describes a certain era in human development, but it actually refers to the spiritual roots. “ I understand this duality, but I cannot stop thinking that it is very convenient almost like a manipulation or propaganda that every human personality from Adam, lived their lives only and exclusively to “represent“ in the language of branches, like outer shells with flesh and blood figures such as Moses and Pharaoh, animals and nations, and with names of objects, feelings, and actions the spiritual forces that come from the upper world to ours. All of them are from the same cultural, geographical and social group.We can like or not like the wisdom of Kabbalah. However, it’s not a philosophy that one should like or not like. Rather, a person either decides to take it and attain what the Kabbalists attained – in which case, they see for themselves that all is exactly as the Kabbalists wrote – or one doesn’t want to attain it for himself.
Pp 8-9
“The vertical line, the light that descends from the upper force, from the Creator to the creature, is a personal sign…,” meaning that it is a personal, subjective sign/message/communication between the Creator and that specific person, the individual who studies The Torah?
So, if “a person who looks at the letters of the Torah, provided he or she has learned to read it correctly, can see his or her own past, present, and future through the combinations of dots and lines” means that the Torah has as many interpretations as qualified people read it or study it correctly?Yes, for great Kabbalists who not only cross into the spiritual world but ascend to the world of Atzilut, the place of the letters, and they learn what letters actually are (it’s not that one who opens a Hebrew book already has access to such letters).
“Mitzvot (commandments, precepts) of “do” (positive precepts) or Mitzvot of “do not do (negative precepts).” Mitzvot/mitzva are as well as the correction of one of the 613 desires from egoistic to altruistic, the transformation of a quality of one of the 613 desires from its egoistic expression, right? Yes, a mitzva is the correction of a vessel [kli]
Also, there are 613 desires but recently I saw a video in Kabbalahinfo that mentioned 620 instead of 613. Could you clarify it? After the corrections between man and his friends are all realized – then there are a few more special corrections toward the Creator.
Pp 11-14
To write the Zohar, first Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai hid in a cave in with his son Rabbi Eleazar. They sat in a cave for thirteen years, eating carobs and drinking water from a nearby spring. Their clothes were torn, so to stay covered, they buried themselves in sand. …
Didn’t they lose their minds? Didn’t they hallucinate?What’s in the Zohar is also about spiritual degrees. Kabbalists don’t write about biological bodies, ever. Just like you would not write a book about your dog’s life from day to day, after he died. To write about history, for Kabbalists, is as absurd as writing the biography of a dog.
Why for 13 years exactly?
Those are spiritual degrees.
If Rashbi was the sole author of the book of Zohar, why is his son mentioned that he was also writing the Zohar while going thought the same ordeal as Rashbi in the cave?
I see that it’s not many questions, but a single question. See my answer below.
Then, Rashbi gathered ten disciples around him including his son Rabbi Eleazar and Rabbi Abba.
Why if Rashbi trained, taught and ordered the nine disciples to write the Zohar, then it’s kept only naming Rashi as whom “both wrote it and concealed it.” They mentioned Rabbi Abba and Rabbi Eleazar in a minor way but why aren’t the other seven disciples mentioned and given the authorship as well if they were primordial in the success of writing the Zohar? What happened to them?They’re the Ten Sefirot of Rashbi’s soul. They wrote it together. But each has his role, like organs in a body.
When I read about Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai that “He is also among the most important sages of the Talmud” and that “his name is mentioned there some four thousand times,” and that he is practically the sole author of the Zohar, it makes me wonder aren’t the kabbalists attributing him a big ego, a great arrogance while ignoring everybody else?
Each has their role in the system of Adam HaRishon. Some belong to the head, the elbow, the heel. Is the head higher than the lung? Yes, but they depend on each other.
In Kabbalah, everything is well planned and foreseen. How then is it possible that the Zohar was rediscovered merely “by chance” five/six hundred years after being buried? Chance/luck doesn’t exist according to Kabbalah, isn’t it?
It only depends on how we speak, since we need to speak to people while they’re under a complete illusion of time, space and motion, which don’t exist at all.
At the same time, everything is/was well documented (if it wasn’t orally passed) from Adam to today, but we don’t know the name of the kabbalist that found the 2700 pieces of paper that was then the Zohar, wasn’t he that important?
If Kabbalists mention a name, it’s probably a special discernment that we’ll need at some point. There’s an ocean of things they intentionally don’t mention. There are things that we’d think are trivial, but saying them would ruin the correction for others – meaning make the suffering they have to go through to reach correction much worse.
And why was/is allowed that many parts of the Zohar were/are still missing?
They will surface. If we need them.
P 17
“… “Eight Gates.” … “He (The Ari) explains the laws of the upper world, how humans influence these laws, and the reincarnations.” … Humans influence the laws of the Upper World! Isn’t the Upper World, the world of Roots impossible to be influenced by the World of Branches, by the human world?Humans influence. Not animals. Like your dog doesn’t influence you with his thoughts or movements, to give him an additional dinner, because you know what’s good for him, no one in our world impacts the Upper World. One who has a spiritual screen and Reflect Light (ohr hozer) is called human. Until then, I’m deemed just a part of the animal kingdom. I have language like dolphins, and like trees have between them – and there is nothing special in me except what I’m capable of. Because one has a chance to reach the quality of the Creator while he is alive in this world.
This part of the Kabbalist journey is all theoretical…and it all makes perfect sense. It is analogous to taking a course in cooking and learning about all sorts of different recipes without actually spending any time in a kitchen.
I look forward to actually getting into the kitchen so to speak in the first workshop and “tasting” what we create.
I read here again in one of the recommended reading documents, that kabbalists have a particular view on eastern teachings, but i can say that this is not the truth for all teachings. The path that I follow, the path of Self realisation, (not the little self, but the real Self), doesn’t diminsh desires, but transforms them (“corrects” them if you want), just as Kabbalah does. Why is there a tendency to generalize all eastern teachings? It irritates me a bit 😉
It’s because the main teachings of the East follow a certain approach that is characteristic of the approach that was their foundation, which they received through Kabbalists who passed on to them a partial Kabbalah that provided sort of half of the approach for dealing with the ego – in other words, in one line, as opposed to the work among the Three Lines. Today, out of one, two, or three approaches came over 5,000 religions. Here, we speak about the original approach, which in truth, there isn’t much left of it, even in the East itself, let alone in the hands of Western practitioners. But an even better answer is that when we talk about the methods of the East, meaning the original methods, it’s just a way of making more tangible a certain approach toward the Upper Force that is a tendency any student might happen to find themselves in, without realizing it – as in that slight deviation, one simply will not rise upon the spiritual degrees that Kabbalists write about.
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