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I have spent years rising very early with a specific routine of feeding my cat, lighting, my stove, making coffee, and sitting down to read, psalms, Bible readings, prayers, and some specific cabala material, and then sitting down to journal for 30 to 45 minutes before anyone gets up, in an effort to find an encounter with the Father. Sometimes, I write pages of thoughtful prayers and requests and observations. Sometimes, I ask God if he’s even there or if he cares. Lately more and more, I’ve wondered if I’m boring God, since I haven’t been inspired to find any other psalms or prayers and the ones that I’ve been using for a long time. I even tried adding some guitar songs, to no avail. Is my sense of pointlessness a sign that I may actually be moving forward? I put this question to a parish priest, and he told me that mother Theresa once went for 10 years without hearing anything from the Lord.
Hi Guy,
Coming closer to the Creator works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that to the extent that we become similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal, to that extent we come closer to him, and reveal Him in practice. This is just like how a radio can pick up an external wave, when we tune the internal frequency of the radio to that wave.
But practicing love and bestowal is not something I can do in isolation, rather I need to have someone with whom I can practice these things. And I can’t practice this with just anyone, as that would violate the rule of “there is no coercion in spirituality”. I need to practice it with others that have the same goal and are aspiring towards that goal on a regular basis. In other words, I need to practice this in a Kabbalistic group.
We’ll learn how to do this practically in the advanced semesters of KabU where everyone will get their own virtual Kabbalah group to practice with.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
I had a question about bestowal, I guess it’s sort of answered here? The texts speaks about giving up reception for pleasure to choose complete bestowal and changing our actions that reflect reception but I feel confused because I think I read in previous weeks that it’s not about the physical actions but about intention. I. E it’s not about giving to the homeless, but then again we need to have actions that reflect bestowal?
Hi Yeabsera,
Our very nature is egoistic. So it’s impossible for us to truly bestow.
See my reply 482158 below to Mira for more details.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Susan,
Yes. In general we’re usually either immersed in corporeality and forget about spirituality completely or we wake up a little from that state and realize that there is something called spirituality but that it’s concealed from us. That’s one of the first three states.
Revelation already depends on our connection with other points in the heart. If we build the right connection with them, then in that connection we’ll reveal spirituality.
It’s like each one of us is just a point, and that point is incapable of sensing spirituality. But if we connect those points together, it becomes like a net with which we can catch something. In that network between us is where we reveal spirituality. We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced semesters.
Albert @ KabU
Is helping someone financially toward medical bills considered a bestowment? Is it part of climbing up the ladder of correction? Help is spontaneous with no attachments. I do not want that person to suffer.
Hi Mira,
Bestowal is the Creator’s nature. While our nature is that of pure reception. So it’s impossible for us to truly bestow. At best we can perform more and more covert actions of reception.
For example, I go to the store and I give them my money, but obviously I want something in return. It’s the same with all of our actions of bestowal in corporeality. Either I do it to receive pleasure directly or indirectly from fame, honor, money, or even the pride of knowing that no one knows about this action, or even avoiding pain or guilt is also part of this same calculation.
So real bestowal, above any calculations for receiving for oneself, does not exist in our world. Real bestowal is purely the Creator’s quality. If we want to acquire such a quality, we first need to correct our nature. This is done by the force of the light we evoke through the Kabbalistic studies. This light begins to work on us, even if we don’t have the true desire to bestow. Even if we’re just like little kids, pretending to be spiritual grown ups. It takes this aspiration of ours and corrects it little by little, building in us a true desire for spirituality, for the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
Each one of us perceives reality differently. So when two people are looking at a same event, let’s say minor car accident. Will each person have a different view, perspective and recall of the same accident?
The video that I just watched on Inanimate, Vegetative, Animate was so enlightening. It helped me understand more regarding the deeper understanding of Kabbalah. Everything makes so more sense to me. It feels as if I (my Intention and Point in my Heart) am traveling, moving towards the achievement that I have intuitively been searching for. There is Light at the end of the steps. Thank you
When I first found books on Kabbalah, I bought as many as I could. Without understanding the specifics of all that I have learned now, I understood the Ten Siferot in a very basic manner. The Ten Serifot was illustrated as a Tree with a left and a right side to it, Mercy and Punishment Hence, without including religion, I understood solely on the basis, that Tikkun Olam was about repairing the world. I imagined this as a “net,” that needed to be repaired because it was torn. I understood that each of us as human beings needed to learn how to repair the net and that it took all of humanity as a whole to be responsible of each thread needed to be joined to others of like minds until the net was whole. That is as far as I got. However, I read several times the 613 Mitzvot and even more times the Perkei Avot. I learned that I needed to be kind to even those who sought to destroy me mentally and physically. I had acquired a rich Jewish library of books that I bought and was so thirsty to read each one, which I did. Everything that I have learned in these courses have led me to understand that the only thing that I reached from reading all of my books was limited to what Kabbalah is really about. In my lifetime, I have only truly and viciously hated two people who did such immense damage to my family and then to me. I had never hated. I had a friend who was a doctor. He became a sort of mentor. He was Catholic and I am Jewish. However, in our conversations, religions was never involved. I could not sleep with that much hatred in my heart. I would wake up in the middle of the night fully perspired as if I had taken a shower. I told my friend this. He smiled and told me to pray for them. I laughed sarcastically. I left and when I got home and ready for bed, I thought about what he had said. My first prayer for these two people was insincere. However, I continued to pray each night. Before the end of the first week, the hatred began to dissolve in my heart. By the end of the two weeks, I was free of hate. My heart was full again and I slept soundly. I mention this because Tony talked about loving thy neighbor as thyself. I believe that 100%. I experienced it and felt the results. As I mentioned, I had never hated nor envied anyone even if anyone person insulted me. I have also mentioned before that when I pray, I pray for others, family included, my children. As for myself, I thank G-d for my life, the tragedies and the many blessings. I have lived adventurously with my children at my side. I have much to thank G-d. Experiencing all this and my limited knowledge of aligning myself with the Creator, am I close to achieving to begin the path back to the Creator?
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