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In an earlier video, explaining the Tree of Life, Gilad shows the 5 Sefirots -> 5 Worlds -> 5 Partzufim. In the book “A Guide to the Hidden Wisdom of Kabbalah”, page 71 there is another way of showing the 125 steps: 5 Worlds -> 5 Partzufim -> 5 Worlds. So I wonder; is the sequence of order not so important?
Hello i’ve a couple of questions, but first is a question about one part of the below sentence quoted (in bold) from the end of the recommended reading, “Rav, Disciple and Group”; mostly, i don’t understand what it means that “we must not abandon the post”, although i do understand to a certain degree the overall meaning, since it echoes the 1st sentence of the answer. “A: Accepting another’s opinion means to live in it, to accept their ideas above your own, and agree that everything that happens is for your own good because a friend recommends it.” i.e., “voice from Heaven” and “a representative of the Creator“.
So, this is the sentence containing the quoted part that i didn’t understand:
“The minute we are faced with a dispute, we must not abandon the post and immediately accept our friends’ position.”
Thanks in advance for reading my present inquiry and for any help figuring out that part of the reading.
Hi Csilla,
We’re talking about spiritual work in a group, where each one is present solely for the purpose of attainment of the Creator. In that context, when a dispute arises, the one who makes themselves smallest, benefits most. But I’ll want to either overthrow the others or run away. I need to do neither, but stay, lower myself. As I don’t want to lower myself before the Creator, so I’m shown situations like this, that I’m like that everywhere. That’s why the Creator hides from me. With the friends, I can gradually calibrate myself toward the Upper World.
I’d like to understand more about Bestowing to the ‘lower’ (AHP).. I’m not entirely clear on this.. could someone help pls .. (from video 3.3 .. Kab in Action)
If I tell you how to use a hammer on a nail, it’s clear what to do because we have those things in our world. What we have of GE and AHP in our world is nothing except the backside of the backside of the backside of the initial point of GE – and truth be told, we don’t even have that yet. With extensive efforts in Kabbalah we develop that point, which later develops to ten sefirot. When it’s complete, there’s another part called AHP that it can have a relationship to, because it has developed this correct form.
Second question:
And how do we correctly hold ‘there is none else besides Him’ without falling into fatalism or spiritual bypass, while still living responsibly in the corporeal world?
I understand that faith above reason is primarily practiced in the group, where interpersonal friction is treated as coming from the Creator and used for self-correction. My question is about daily life outside the group: while we don’t apply “love above all” to ordinary transactional relationships, is it correct to say that faith above reason can still express itself as continuing to act, build, and move forward even without guarantees, while attributing outcomes to the Creator rather than freezing due to uncertainty?
Faith Above Reason is something very special and I’d say impossible to understand what it is. Our studies will spread to cover all of life, but not right away. The work you have in day to day life is in holding on to “There is none else besides Him” in every situation, while doing what you would have done even if everything depended on you and you couldn’t rely on the Creator whatsoever.
Hi Gianni and other students,
The more I progress, the more I am sure this is the path for me. However, I have one concern: If I leave Kabbalah after joining, then I’m just left with the increased darkness. Even though I know in my mind that this is giving more space for light to enter, as I lose touch with the group, I will lose touch with the light. I don’t want this to happen right now, but I naturally have a resistance to identifying with things, in this case I know that a time will come (even if it is not now), that I will resist wanting to continue because I will want conventional freedom–conventional because it is different from the freedom kabbalists talk about.
My Question is how can I prevent this from becoming another script? For example, the gym is for exercising, work is for helping the company, the bar is for socializing, etc. Then it follows that Kab U is for learning non-exploitative ways of connecting others.
Then like all other scripts it becomes a switch to turn on and off, when I’m here I am non-egoistic and selfless, but when I leave I can do whatever I want. In other cases, that’s is OK because if I don’t exercise, I don’t get stronger, if I don’t work, I don’t make money, and if I don’t go to the bar I don’t make friends. In this case I feel like it is different, because it is connecting with higher force.
Part of this stems from the fact that I am already starting to see a gap emerging between myself and others-those who have not crossed the machsom. I don’t think this is egoism talking, although it might be, but I think at a time I will want to step back so that I can be more simple. One of the common people as you might say.
You should see how to add Kabbalah to your life in a way that it can be an addition, on top of everything else. If I return to true beastly life, where I simply forget there’s a purpose to life – because the life of a cat is simple and worry-free – well, then I have bad news. Once awakened, I’ll find out that I won’t be allowed to be just a cat in the way I had it before. It’s too late for that. But the correct way is that Kabbaah constitutes the higher physics of everything else below it. I can maintain both corporeal and spiritual life if I give each its correct and adequate food. To have corporeal life only… that window is in fact closing for all of humanity.
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