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    Ask anything about week 4 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

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    • #411003
      Nancy D
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      Did the Creator create the first three phases and what was the purpose of submitting the creature through those phases before reaching phase 4?

      • #411590
        Adi
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        I am a little confused about your recommendations for prayers and talking to God.

        If we do not have free will and all that happens to us is predestined, praying would be just telling God that I don’t like what his plans were for me and I want them changed.Plus I cannot see God as a friend I see the Creator as energy, the (+) component of the initial light.

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          Adi,
          The Light is at rest and does not change, only we go through changes in order to become more similar to the Light.
          All of our praying and all of our talking is that we get clear about our true state and our future desired state.  We need to go through all of the transformations, all of the efforts.  You are right, in the end, we will discover that it was all him.  But with a child, let’s say when he grows up you will give him a car and pay for his college, but when he is young, will you let him sit on the couch all day and play video games and not do any school work?  not make his bed?   not clean up his mess?
          Of course not, even though you will pay for college and buy him a car, you want him to grow up correctly so that when he has his car and he is in college, he values it and is prepared for it, so you require many actions and many efforts during his years growing up.
          You can look at the light as energy if you want.  Nevertheless,that energy created you with a mouth and a mind and gave you human relations with which to feel what is giving, what is taking, what is love, etc.  There is no way to simply relate to Light without it clothing in a vessel.  Play along with Him.
          Seth@KabU
          Seth@KabU

        • #411593
          Adi
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          Sorry,I posted my comment on your topic by mistake and I cannot remove it.

      • #411488

        Nancy,
        From the side of the Creator, He had a thought…and everything was done at once, from the beginning to the end, the creature is created and filled with endless delight and is eternally with Him.
        However from the side of the creature, from the vessel, it is a step by step process in order that the creature will feel itself as independent and not just a drop of water in the ocean or a spark in the sun,  but as if consciously rising to be at an equal degree with the Creator.
        This is the root of the four phases that emanate out of Ein Sof.
        Seth@KabU

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      Akosua Marie
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      Why did the Creator create the creature with the ability to decide not to receive the pleasure from the Creator (Behinat Bet)?

      • #410380

        Akosua,

        We are born a will to receive. We cannot chose not to receive pleasure. In order to do something like that, we require an additional force from Above.

        You may be referring to Malchut of Ein Sof restricting herself in the First Restriction. While we say there that Malchut restricts herself, actually this entire action is performed by the Creator upon her.
        Like we can say it rained so much that the ground became soft and a big hole opened up in the yard.

        But the yard didn’t chose to open itself up, it was acted upon and according to its properties such and such happened.

        Seth@KabU

    • #410027
      Mitch
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      Is the Hebrew alphabet or it just the 4 alphabet? What is Binah?

    • #409993
      Soph
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      Isn’t the desire to give in the state of Binah Bet, really just a desire to receive pleasure from giving from the perspective of the creature?

      • #410382

        Soph,

        What we want to discern in Bina is that she wants nothing for herself.  Whatever else happens is secondary. Her quality is only to bestow with nothing for herself.

        Seth@KabU

    • #409974
      Alina
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      This is a parable in the Bible that relates to the story of a prodigal son that came back to his father after misfortunes expending his inheritance and was received with great love and happiness by his father. .. could it be a description of the soul evolution using the path of suffering?

      • #410383

        Alina,

        I don’t know this parable. Please post it and I can comment.

        Thanks,

        Seth@KabU

    • #409971
      Jade Sophia
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      Is the spiritual ascent accomplished only by the one soul or can individuals attain it? For example: I had an experience that absolutely confirmed to me the existence of the spiritual world, even before I knew about anything about Kabbalah. Was the experience an attainment of Nefesh, or was it a spark of the possibility to attain it and it will only be attained at the collective soul level?

      Thank you

      • #410384

        Jade,

        There are many peaks behind the curtain from “UFOs” to psychedelics to all kinds of phenomenon that point us toward the spiritual reality.
        The soul and specifically in our time where the situation is different than 2000 years ago or even 200 years ago when the quality of coarseness of the generation was much more primitive, the soul is attained by reconnecting the broken shattered connection between the parts of the common soul called Adam.

        You’re experience was some taste to draw you forward.

        Seth@KabU

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