Discuss

[Gil Shir]

Share your insights and impressions from this lesson with fellow students.

[Tammy Ardoin]

Thank you for your time and your help with these teaching. I was just curious if the last few letters do not have a corresponding line to the spiritual worlds?

[Eugene]

Hello

There is no clear which forces combines in letter Gimel.

Also, why vertical line in BET is Z”A? Before you said vertical line is Chohma

[Eugene]

Hello

There is no clear which forces combines in letter Gimel.

Also, why verical line in BET is Z”A? Before you  said vertical line is Chohma

[David Baltuch]

Dear All,

May I suggest two remarks rather than questions, relating to the concept of Makhshava. First, the difference between the creation and the way we experience it: the metaphor of music comes to my mind. For example, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is a book that you can have in your hand, and all of it is there, static. However, humans can only experience it through time and space, that is the time to unfold the symphony into successive sounds, and the specific space of the concert hall. Now, going from there, another remark will lead me to a trickier topic: ego/selfishness and the rest of the universe. For being a musician, I know all too well that composers like Bach, Beethoven or Mahler were deeply preoccupied by Nature, Spirituality and the Other. They worked all their lives in order to get ever so close to this Higher level of Reality. Yet, they did not do that by connecting to others in a “classic” way, they rather kept away from people in order to develop that higher degree of closeness. Once they got there—that is, when they achieved their master pieces—they were all too happy to share it with people, in the hope that their struggle could help others. So, in a way, they were connecting to the rest of the universe in their own and singular way. What then appears to be “ego” deserves further investigation, as there is more to that concept that meets the eye. There were my two cents.

All the best,

David

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Very nice.
Thank you.

[David Baltuch]

Dear All,

There seems to be a problem with the website. Here is what I see when I try to get further in my study.

Is there anything that I could do to help solve the situation?

Thank you so much for you precious help,

Kind wishes,

David

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

David,

We investigated this.
It looks like your current browser/device blocks Vimeo.
Try to open it in another browser.
If this doesn’t work tell us and we’ll open a task to our developers.

Seth@KabU

[David Baltuch]

Seth,

My understanding is that my Chrome browser stopped supporting Vimeo, from one day to the next. I now open every Vimeo link in another browser (Firefox) and it works fine.

Thank you.

David

[David Baltuch]

Hello Gil, Hello Seth, Hello Everyone,

I’m watching the video about the tips on how to read the Zohar, with the reading together proposed by Gil. I know it’s not the focus of this course (Cracking the code) but just wanted to remark on the nature of the reading proposed by Gil, the fact that he chose to envelope us with music, and music of a certain type, to help us escape from literal reading towards a more poetical/spiritual reading. I’ll do the experience again with music by Gustav Mahler. There is a piece by him called Urlicht that comes very close to the concept of spiritual light. Also, the four colours (red, green, white and black) remind me of the four colours found in many Arab flags, which are said to refer to a 16th Century poem in Arabic. Can it be that some Arabic scholars were versed in Kaballah back then? These were my two cents…

Thank you for reading this and maybe bouncing back if you have time.

David / דוד

 

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

David,
I don’t know the extent that they were versed in the wisdom of kabbalah but yes of course, there were Arabs that came to learn with the sages.  We also find that the Sufis have a serious method themselves, I don’t know it but from what I have heard, it is a real method.
Seth@KabU

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