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So it’s explained that when we look at others, we should have a blind love of like that of a mother. And I’m curious as to how far we take that. How do we do that and stay safe when some of those people will want to harm us?
Hi Diane,
I’m in a perception of reality in which I don’t identify that I’m looking in mirror, and that’s all I see out in the world: my intentions. They only look that way to me, so that I think I live in a world with other people. You’re right – some of them are ready to do harm. If I bring them into a hug, I’ll get a knife in the back. I need to identify the qualities in others that are drawn precisely toward the wisdom of Kabbalah. They’re drawn, somehow, for some reason, toward equivalence with the Creator, which is only the quality of bestowal. With those parts of my soul, I can play the game of bestowal. It still won’t be true bestowal, and we have to play this boardgame with a set of rules that come with it (which we will learn here) by which we will draw the Surrounding Light that can build in us this foreign quality, the quality of the Creator.
So, you’re 100% right. Bestowal and love is not the exercise of any tools which I already have in my toolbox and might go by similar names. That would check both boxes of being [ ] risky for me, and [ ] failing to bring about any spiritual result whatsoever. True Kabbalists never advised anyone to do so. In regular life, just be what’s considered a normal decent person, citizen, family member and so on, and since we should do that to be generally successful in life anyway, simply do so, as it’s for one’s benefit and unrelated to spirituality.
Hello again 🙂
I have more questions. I hope you don’t feel overwhelmed with all of my questions and that I am formulating them correctly to communicate my doubts and commentaries.
Awakening to Kabbalah
Chapter 2 – In The Beginning (Pages 25-42)Pp 27-28
“The seven days of creation referred to in Genesis are felt by humanity as seven thousand years. The first six stand for the six days of the week, during which humanity corrects itself unconsciously at first and finally consciously, through great efforts. In the end, we will reach the seventh millennium, or the seventh day, the Sabbath, which is a state where the light of the Creator fills the corrected properties with bounty and delight.”
“The entire path of humankind consists of six days, representing the six thousand years of correction. We have now entered the year 5766 in the Jewish calendar.”
1.- Year 5766 is wrong, we are in the year 5786. I wonder how do you keep your information up to date?
2.- According to Kabbalah humanity has existed only for 5786 years since the creation of “heaven and heart” or the world and humanity, so are the creation of galaxies and the universe included in this time frame?
3.- Archaeological evidence proves that humans existed before that time and the anatomical modern human being is dated approximately 300,000 years ago and with fully modern traits appearing between 100,000 and 40,000 years ago. That’s at least 35 000 years of discrepancy. Just Göbekli Tepe is as old as 9500 BCE and even Jericho in the West Bank has traces of its existence that are older than 8000 years.P 28
“The Zohar points to the generation of the Messiah as the time when the conscious correction of the world should begin…” all points to our generation as the generation of the Messiah. In the years we have left before the end of the six thousand years, the Jews and the whole of humankind must complete the correction, and in the seventh millennium, we will receive the reward for our world.” 1.- We collectively are the Messiah? In the language of roots, right?
2.- Here, Kabbalah or the text separates Jews and the whole humankind, why? I find this difference contradictory, opposite to the meaning and wisdom of Kabbalah! Even if the explication is that the word “Jews” is used as humans that have the desire to reach the spiritual and unity with the Creator, the message or the idea is still different. Is there discrimination or separation in Kabbalah depending on the subject it is talking about? Because later on the text, like on page 30 the idea is clear: “The Creator appeals… to each and every person.” … “Humanity is the representative of creation and of all the other worlds.” It doesn’t mention Jews and the whole of humankind are the representative of creation and of all the other worlds.
“The system that manages our world consists of seven parts. That is why things in our world are divided by seven or seventy: the seven days of the week, the seventy nations of the world, the seventy parts of humanity’s soul, and the length of a human’s life, lasting approximately seventy years.”
1.- The seventy nations of the world and the seventy parts of humanity’s soul are both related or mirroring one to another, and they are based on the descendants of Noah or Noah’s sons and not to all humankind. What do they represent?
2.- Nowadays life lasts more than seventy years.Pp 30 and 34
1.- What specific attribute or trait and which other properties in a human does Abraham represent? If “Abraham represents a spiritual trait that seems to be the basis of all our traits,” that means that Abraham represents all and each of the attributes, traits and properties that each and all human beings have? Or does it represent only Love and hunger, meaning the single sensation of the absence of something?
2.- If Abraham “…will obtain the opposite properties: eternity and completeness and the degree of the Creator Himself.” Would the opposite be mortality, incompleteness, and a degree of emptiness, absence of the Creator? And that is what rules the world, right?PP 32-33
“The exile in Egypt is not intended for Abraham, but rather for Jacob and his family (Josef and his brothers). The exile was meant to last four hundred years, but in fact it was shorter. Baal HaSulam writes that because they did not complete the four hundred years…,”
1.- What attributes, traits or properties did Jacob and his family (Josef and his brothers) represent, and how did they succeed in making their exile shorter?“…the entire nation that left Egypt was forced to experience another exile, the one that has been ongoing for the past two thousand years.”
2.- Is this text still talking about Abraham? Because he lived almost four thousand years ago. Or it is talking about the fall of the Second Temple because then it would make sense the “past two thousand years.”
3.- In any case, does this mean that the entire desires of the physical world and/or the corporeal desires are still going on today?P 36
“… the desire for spirituality. It can be revealed along with lower desires, but what distinguishes it is that we cannot satisfy it with anything mundane, because the source for this desire is outside our world.”
1.- What is the difference between lower desires and mundane? Are not both a representation of Egypt?P 38
“There are, all and all, 620 desires in the body.”
1.- I had understood that there were 613 desires, one is the point in the heart, could you clarify?And finally:
1.- Who and how many are the current kabbalists who “live in our world and in the spiritual root simultaneously.”
2.- Where do they live and how do they live nowadays?
3.- I would love to meet them, to get to know them up close and to observe them to learn from their example, from their actions and behavior. I think that is the best way of disseminating the Wisdom of Kabbalah!I appreciate again your time and patience.
Warmly and hungrily,
Jose-Carlos 🙂
1.- Year 5766 is wrong, we are in the year 5786. I wonder how do you keep your information up to date?
You’re correct. That was the correct date when that book was published.
2.- According to Kabbalah humanity has existed only for 5786 years since the creation of “heaven and heart” or the world and humanity, so are the creation of galaxies and the universe included in this time frame?
“World” is a word in Hebrew that imples concealment, and that’s what Kabbalists meant by the word. There are 5 worlds, meaning 5 concealments. Meaning concealments upon the Upper Light, the Creator, until, at last, in our world, it’s so concealed that it’s as if there isn’t a Creator, and it’s even to the point where we don’t feel that anything is concealed. That’s the ultimate concealment! Of course, this concept of ‘world’ includes the farthest reaches of the galaxy along with our solar system and Earth.
3.- Archaeological evidence proves that humans existed before that time and the anatomical modern human being is dated approximately 300,000 years ago and with fully modern traits appearing between 100,000 and 40,000 years ago. That’s at least 35 000 years of discrepancy. Just Göbekli Tepe is as old as 9500 BCE and even Jericho in the West Bank has traces of its existence that are older than 8000 years.
Kabbalists agree completely. Everything evolved more or less as Darwin suggested (although the conclusions they derive afterward and make whole philosophies about it, are another thing).
P 28
“The Zohar points to the generation of the Messiah as the time when the conscious correction of the world should begin…” all points to our generation as the generation of the Messiah. In the years we have left before the end of the six thousand years, the Jews and the whole of humankind must complete the correction, and in the seventh millennium, we will receive the reward for our world.” 1.- We collectively are the Messiah? In the language of roots, right?The force that CONNECTS us, when it will do so toward the whole of humanity, and elevate us above all our petty business, to the quality of love and bestowal, so that every person feels they are missing every other person like their own long lost organs – will be called the Messiah.
2.- Here, Kabbalah or the text separates Jews and the whole humankind, why? I find this difference contradictory, opposite to the meaning and wisdom of Kabbalah! Even if the explication is that the word “Jews” is used as humans that have the desire to reach the spiritual and unity with the Creator, the message or the idea is still different. Is there discrimination or separation in Kabbalah depending on the subject it is talking about? Because later on the text, like on page 30 the idea is clear: “The Creator appeals… to each and every person.” … “Humanity is the representative of creation and of all the other worlds.” It doesn’t mention Jews and the whole of humankind are the representative of creation and of all the other worlds.
It’s because “man is a small world” and he includes parts in him that are called Jews and Nations of the World. They’re kinds of desires that one has to gradually discern. Then one sees that this kind, called Jew, in him, is suitable for spiritual advancement, while this desire in him called Nations of the World/gentiles simply don’t want it. Although the Creator wants everyone. That’s why, except in times when Kabbalists concealed the wisdom of Kabbalah, there were many who were not born as corporeal Jews, who became great Kabbalists.
“The system that manages our world consists of seven parts. That is why things in our world are divided by seven or seventy: the seven days of the week, the seventy nations of the world, the seventy parts of humanity’s soul, and the length of a human’s life, lasting approximately seventy years.”
1.- The seventy nations of the world and the seventy parts of humanity’s soul are both related or mirroring one to another, and they are based on the descendants of Noah or Noah’s sons and not to all humankind. What do they represent?
2.- Nowadays life lasts more than seventy years.These cases relate to the 7 lower Sefirot, and all those details are ways of discussing what’s going on in that part of the spiritual system. Again, in our world, you have branches from these roots.
1.- What specific attribute or trait and which other properties in a human does Abraham represent? If “Abraham represents a spiritual trait that seems to be the basis of all our traits,” that means that Abraham represents all and each of the attributes, traits and properties that each and all human beings have? Or does it represent only Love and hunger, meaning the single sensation of the absence of something?
Abraham is the property of bestowal (Hesed), the quality of love at a small degree (level). Abraham addressed the Babylonians and asked them to remember how successfully they cooperated when their egoism was smaller. He advised them to rise above their divisive ego and live in love and friendship. However, this work was unfeasible for them since it implied that people had to help each other and trigger the Reforming Light by asking the Creator to grant it to them in order to actually live in accordance with the rule of “love thy neighbor as thyself.” It implied that each of them was a “different object” detached from each other by selfishness. Was it possible to build a bridge between them? It is a very difficult task! It can be achieved only with the help of Abraham’s property, Hesed (mercy, bestowal), when despite our alienating egos we still try to correct ourselves in order to reach a phase when our neighbor is as important and precious to us as we are to ourselves. This is how the principle of love thy neighbor as thyself is implemented in life.
2.- If Abraham “…will obtain the opposite properties: eternity and completeness and the degree of the Creator Himself.” Would the opposite be mortality, incompleteness, and a degree of emptiness, absence of the Creator? And that is what rules the world, right?
Yes. Except his small group, everyone preferred to live like the Babylonians. We continue to suffer as a result. Thousands of years later, Abraham’s offer still stands before us as the option we must choose.
PP 32-33
“The exile in Egypt is not intended for Abraham, but rather for Jacob and his family (Josef and his brothers). The exile was meant to last four hundred years, but in fact it was shorter. Baal HaSulam writes that because they did not complete the four hundred years…,”
1.- What attributes, traits or properties did Jacob and his family (Josef and his brothers) represent, and how did they succeed in making their exile shorter?It’s possible to ask about every word in the Torah, and in each word, there’s a whole ocean.
Through Joseph we begin to get acquainted with the upper system, and thanks to him we can connect and try to find spiritual qualities in order to come closer to the upper force and attain the Creator. Every spiritual quality is attained through Joseph, through the Sefira Yesod, and through our connection.
Joseph is righteous, the foundation of the world, because only through connection, through Yesod, do we attain all other upper spiritual qualities. In our work Joseph is the most necessary and closest feeling to us, a connection in a group. Through the point of connection, we begin to recognize the quality of Joseph.
The Torah tells how the brothers sell Joseph into slavery. They do not understand this quality yet because they are higher than him and are not yet familiar with the quality of Joseph. They consider Joseph a younger brother and do not agree that he should stand out.
The main thing about Joseph is that he brings us to connection. Joseph does not have his own individual quality; he combines all other qualities in his yearning for connection, and through it, to the Creator. Joseph is a common quality in which all the other brothers are included, and they are clarified due to the growing will to receive, that is, Pharaoh.
Therefore, from the quality of Joseph, from Yesod, comes sustenance, the force of life, and the force of attainment. The revelation of the Pharaoh also happens through Joseph. At the beginning of the Egyptian slavery, the Pharaoh was kind and it did not feel like slavery at all. On the contrary we developed, and all this with the help of Joseph. Joseph is the beginning of the attainment of good and evil in our whole life, and therefore he is closest to us.
The quality of Joseph is implemented through our connection. He is called “everything” because all the qualities are combined within him and through them connect us with the Creator. Attaining Joseph is attaining unity, the essence of our connection. This is the first step that takes us out of this world and leads to the attainment of the Creator, the upper, spiritual world.
Joseph is like a tree that brings us all the fruits of life. This is a connection with the upper root, from which all good flows into the world. We eat from it; thanks to it we live, breed, and multiply. This is the place of our connection with each other and with the Creator; that is, it is the place of exiting the feeling of this corporeal world and entering the spiritual world. All this is performed through the quality of Joseph, the degree that is closest to us.
It is known that in order to advance at least one step forward, we need to connect into tens. Joseph is called everything because he combines all our qualities together. Each of the ten people has their own qualities that differ from others, but once we rise above ourselves, we can be together. If we rise above our egoistic differences, each of us above his egoism, then we become similar and equal and can connect and complement each other.
We attain this to the extent that we attain the Sefira Yesod, which is called everything. When we rise above our egoism and come to faith above reason, to connection in the ten, we create a new spiritual quality common to all called the Creator. He is born out of the connection between us and says: “You have made Me!”
It turns out that through our connection we have created the Creator; this is how He is revealed with regard to us. The first acquaintance with the Creator, with the upper force, with the upper world, occurs through the quality of Yesod.
And finally:
1.- Who and how many are the current kabbalists who “live in our world and in the spiritual root simultaneously.”A Kabbalist is opposite to any kind of human inclination we can understand. Unless he must, for some reason, he doesn’t want to be known at all.
2.- Where do they live and how do they live nowadays?
They can be anywhere.
3.- I would love to meet them, to get to know them up close and to observe them to learn from their example, from their actions and behavior. I think that is the best way of disseminating the Wisdom of Kabbalah!
That’s natural, but Kabbalists aren’t willing to teach people in that way anymore, because in our times, will our egos, a different method is required to correct us. This is what we teach here, and one can do it wherever they are. In the old times, it was just like how you’re saying.
Good afternoon. I hope you are all well.I have a question to ask of you. I have been in the hospital and was discharged to.rehab on Tuesday. I have missed the previou seession. I have read the rules and watched the videos but have nit oarticipated in the group discussions. What wiuld ve best…to wait for the next ten to be set up or to remain in this one? I want to do what is vest for this ten and not be a drag on their progress. I very much need your input on this matter. I am so grateful to have this opportunity andvto have found this place. I feel like a constant receiver with no opportunity to bestow . Please give me your advice. Thank you, Sally
Sometimes, i feel so heavy towards spiritually and see a lot of obstructions and family responsibilities delays my studies. Does some too feels the same way? Or what should I do in such state?
Yes, but you have to give full support to your family. The Creator gave you that, and now you need to work from the state He gave. It’s like if you and I get under a barbell and I can lift 200 and you can lift 100. From your state, you might gain more than I, depending on your efforts. In spirituality, only the effort out of the particular state one is given, is relevant to spiritual advancement. Conversely, if I could have lifted 220 but only lifted 200, my advancement is zero. But from all of your possibilities, you have to give 100% – because your effort has to be an expression of how much you want spirituality, with as correct an intention as possible. This is all that is needed: an expression to the Upper Light that I, from my state, am doing what I can. It knows how to take care of everything from there.
As i read in the recommended reading the text of the Arvut, i’m having the thought that we are now in a Time that Israel is doing exactly the opposite of “Love your neighbour as yourself”. I mean literally: the land Israel is destroying their neighbours. I know its a language of roots and branches, but i suppose its not by coincidence that right now Israel is doing exactly the opposite of what was asked from them, and that on a enormous scale. Its probably a sign that we are in the last phase of the ego’s expanding force?
Among the people called Israel there isn’t love toward each other, and from this comes all other problems. That’s what all the Kabbalists write. As long as there isn’t unity among the people, the tap for the Upper Light is closed, and the world feels that there is a certain someone sitting on the tap of all good things. And so to the extent life feels bad, they feel like making life bad for this people too. Onto this visceral feeling in the other people in the world they clothe various accusations and justifications, but those reasons change over the generations, while what’s eternal is the hatred of this people called Israel at all times except when it does what it is destined to do, which is be “a Light to the Nations,” which means to be united as “one man with one heart.” If this happens, their neighbors will run to join that one heart, which will be a vessel for the Creator to fill all of reality. If they don’t unite, that is, instead of being this special person with a role toward humanity and their connection to the purpose of creation, I just want to be “like everyone else”, then the system of nature will come after me, in the form of peoples and other forces of nature, and deal with me harshly to show me that -no – have to behave differently, according to my special role, meaning the work in intention and connection.
I have a question regarding the reading text of week 2 Arvut (Mutual Garantee). When the text discuss on people of other nations were not qualify to receive the tora, and after the israel nation came out of egypt then they received the torah, and Abraham, Issac and Jacob was living according to the torah even before being given to the Israel nation, I am curious to know if this is still in the language of roots/branches? or is this in a regular human historic language? as we’ve learned so far that the torah is written in the language of roots and branches and is not historic, I was a little confused here, can you clarify also if there’s any way to distinguish when we read a normal historic text or when it’s in roots/branches language. thanks!
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