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I saw on YouTube today that the Kabbalah Revealed students were supposed to get assigned to “special teams.” Was there something I was supposed to do to be eligible for a team?
I have been taking my time going through the course “weeks,” because I didn’t know there was any kind of deadline. But it’s not that I haven’t been doing a lot of work. I have read Attaining the Worlds Beyond, the Zohar, and Unlocking the Zohar. Some I have read several times. I have watched a lot of videos on the YouTube channel.
How do I become eligible to go into a special team?
Thanks
Hi Logynn,
If you’re referring to tens, everyone will be assigned a group of ten in the advanced semester.
The prerequisite for that is to finish the fundamentals and intermediate semesters.
Albert @ KabU
Ok, I have another question. I’ve been reading a lot of the books and watching a lot of videos that are outside of this class. And usually they all make perfect sense. But this week I am coming across a lot that confuses me.
I hope this is still the right place to ask. But I was watching this video about what the Ten Commandments are: youtu.be/0pVAtvb59gs?si=rDU8cldk8qKdGRL4
And he says the one not to bear false witness is basically not to create fiction. (Only things that actually happen reflect the true forces and relationships.) And then farther along he says according to Baal HaSulaam there are only two commandments, which are basically to benefit society and fulfill society’s members. The example of fulfillment is to help turn them towards the Creator.
But what if all of your abilities and work and influence have to do with writing and illustrating games and fiction? I am a professional writer and illustrator. My favorite personal project topics to illustrate are spiritual concepts. But, they discuss in this video how it’s intrinsically impossible to depict these things. So any depiction is bearing false witness, in a way.
So if my abilities are in writing and illustrating, and this is what people listen to and respond to, how do I work to benefit the collective by it?
Hi Logynn,
1. We’re still in the fundamentals, so don’t be so quick to change your whole life.
2. Bearing false witness, it’s clear such things are not rooted in benefiting others and loving others, so clearly it’s not good.
3. Written stories and illustrations, there are times when these things are used to cause harm to others, which is not good. And there are times when these things are used to benefit people, to educate them, etc, which is good. So it depends not on the action itself, but on the intention behind the action.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/12/lie-and-truth-part-3/
By the way, during the pandemic, I myself have dabbled a bit in using illustrations to illustrate spiritual concepts. There was mostly positive feedback from that action. Here are some examples.
Albert @ KabU
Thanks for sharing those examples. I struggle with storyboarding, scenes and cartoon type styles. So you and I would have very complimentary skills if we were on the same production team.
Example: https://www.redbubble.com/people/ravenslore/shop
Based on that blog post this is a very nuanced topic that I’ll have to observe and think on for a long time. Thanks for your help.
It wouldn’t let me link to my example. I put a link to my Redbubble store under the content creator name: Ravenslore
I used that because, like your example, it’s an account that it is almost completely my efforts to depict spiritual things.
Any other examples I have of my work are online professional portfolios of games I’ve made, which have nothing to do with spiritual things and TBH I don’t like them.Anyhoo.. Thanks again for sharing.
There are so many paradoxes in these spiritual concepts. What I am trying to understand is impossible. It’s like imagining a 5th dimensional object.
So, if that is true. The only way I can reach an intention to bestow is if I am led into a context, condition, or situation where it pops into my capacity to imagine it, comprehend it, and see that it’s something I want.
Is that what is happening here? We are spending as much time as we can following the breadcrumbs of these concepts that take us on some kind of a path to this epiphany?
Hi Logynn,
Yes, you can say that. Ultimately, bestowal is completely against our nature. Even what we picture as bestowal, we picture it through the lens of the desire to receive pleasure. But that’s ok. That’s the most that we can do and aspiring for that is enough for the light to start working on us and correcting our nature bit by bit, until it becomes similar to the nature of bestowal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/
Albert @ KabU
Thanks
I went on the YouTube channel after asking this and it seemed like the first video was about my question. It said that we each have a unique desire that is intrinsic, genuine and authentic. And that we are being lead to realize what it is. I imagine that must be the one that has the potential to be altruistic, and be the “button” to enter the spiritual world.
I was thinking about this last night. And if this is true, that we are being led to the realization of our one true and unique desire, the question of freewill is moot. Because it means that regardless of if our thoughts and actions originate from the Creator, or from our own will, they are advancing us towards the one thing that we truly want.
In which case we would choose each thought and action to be the same, even if we had full knowledge and attainment. If we had it to go back and do again, and this was the path to that end, we would do and think exactly the same things.
It’s completely irrelevant who is in control, because functionally the two entities are in lock step.
The egoistic desire was in agreement with the altruistic one all along. The only point of the whole process was to realize itself.
I keep questioning myself about the logic about all this in the reflection to the time and shape the world, nature and it’s people are in. It worries me a lot… any tips?
Hi Koriander,
We learn from the lesson on the perception of reality that the external world is a reflection of my own internal world. It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
So we don’t need to go out to the world and start correcting things we see there. We only need to focus on our own correction. And when we correct ourselves, this correction will be reflected in the world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
It says in the text that because we are nothing but ” a will to receive pleasure”, I find it difficult to act in any way in which I don’t foresee personal satisfactions…Thus, it almost sounds as though I need to fake it. Is that a good approach?
Hi Ben,
In the corporeal world, we need to take care of our necessities regardless of how we feel about it. Meaning I have to keep working, taking care of my family, health, etc.
In our spiritual work, which is primarily within the Kabbalistic group, there we aspire to reach the qualities of love and bestowal. But since bestowal is completely against our egoistic nature, it’s impossible for us to have a real desire to bestow. In the best case scenario, we can ASPIRE to bestow. We can play pretend AS IF we want bestowal. This is as much as our nature allows and actually this is enough. Such a game, especially when played with other points in the hearts in the Kabbalistic group, is how we extract the reforming light. It’s ultimately the light that corrects our nature and gives us a true desire to bestow. Our work is to extract more and more of it until it begins to work on us and makes this aspiration a reality.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/
Albert @ KabU
I am not a dedicated and studious student but I am trying. I get distracted unfocused so much. But I am loving studying when I do. I can’t even express my gratitude in all the things I have learned from this classes and videos, etc.
Bit by bit I am getting somewhere in grasping what is authentic Kabballah is and these concepts, and be ONE with the Creator. I know that the more I learned the less I know but at least I am in the right path with Kab U team, the teaching, teachers and of course Dr. M. Laitman. From the deepest of my ❤️ Thank you so much.
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