Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Elisheva]

I say my prayers in the morning and at night as per my religion. However, after I say my prayers, I talk to G-d and ask Him to bless the State of Israel, its inhabitants. I ask that He protect all Jews around the world. I ask that he bless all the loving fathers and mothers who work very hard to put food on their children’s table. I ask Him to protect all souls who should need Him. I ask for healing blessings for family members who are ill and for my children. My last words are to thank Him for my life. I thank Him because I came to believe that the tragic events and the blessed events in my life, all had a reason for happening.  However, I took this in faith. Now I know that this “faith” of mine has led me to be interested in learning Kabbalah. I can continue to pray and talk to G-d. And I discovering the study of Kabbalah, my intention is definitely to learn the path towards the Creator. Hence, prayer and Kabbalah can still co-exist because they are two different concepts; one does not offend the other. The study and my great intention to acquire the Point in my Heart has now been offered to me and I am most grateful.

[Greg]

The definition of prayer and what it entails from a religious point of view  and the Kabbalistic point of view.

[Andrew Lawson]

The thought that I am actually praying all the time. That prayer is not the words in my thoughts but rather the feeling in my heart.

That feeling in the heart is responding to the external all the time. If I respond out of bitterness for what happens in the external, then this constitutes sin.

But if I can develop the sense to be mindful of how that might be, in any situation, then I might turn the feeling towards that of bestowal. To seek the way of the creator through equivalence of form, with faith above reason.

Simply, beautiful.

[ilse]

I love the idea of coming to the point where i am neither controlled by my lower nature nor by the Creator so that its up to me and my own intention (an individual uncoerced intention) to become like the Creator. To be in that place of complete free will and then make the choice for the path. Waw. That feels as the real achievement.

[Carina]

I’m amazed to discover that Kabbalah is not a religion, but a science of spiritual reality. The Creator is always good and unchanging, unaffected by our actions, and wants us to develop faith—not as blind belief, but as the quality of bestowal and alignment with the Creator. While physical blessings are part of life, the deeper goal is to become attuned to the Creator by developing a sixth sense—a spiritual faculty for perceiving the upper worlds. Kabbalah investigates this higher reality systematically: its discoveries are based on direct experience through the sixth sense, and its results are consistent and repeatable, just like any true science.

[Lorie]

In this lesson, I understood in what way Kabbalah and religion differ by understanding what is prayer its purpose and the way it is used by religious people and Kabbalists respectively. I never reflect or thought about prayer this way! I found and felt that this explanation make sense. It was a revelation for me. At the same time I understand better how to pray and when to pray when our purpose is to attain equivalence of form with the Creator.

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