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Could Kabbahlism be considered a sect of Judaism? a school of Judaism ? Is it ever formally taught in Yeshivas? Has it ever met with any antagonism ? Why do Kabbalists seem to shy away from being called Jewish Mystics?
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Hi Aleta,
Terms like religious or mystical are only applied to Kabbalists by those who don’t really know what Kabbalah is. Everyone is, understandably, at least partly convinced that Kabbalah is religious and/or mystical – precisely to the extent of their lack of personal attainment of this wisdom. When one attains it, they see clearly that a great Kabbalist could show no signs of external religion. That’s because they are utterly independent.
Hello, I am in week 1 and have been reading Kabbalah revealed and watching the videos , I am attempting to understand, what is happening for me right now is perceiving my environment I’ve started with my lounge room , and the information that I’m receiving, what I am understanding is that this is a projection somewhat like an avatar of what is inside of me ? This leads me to a question if I think about this as being inside a box and there is another level then would I then begin to need to develop other senses to experience a reality that is around this reality? Am I developing a bridge between this world and the next ?
That’s right, Nicole. You need to develop an additional sense for the next dimension of reality, spirituality.
Hello Gianni , would this mean that my consciousness or an aspect of it is connected to the garden of eden ? This would make sense to me as I am made in his image ? So this would make reality binary ? Which means that there would be a different language possibly ? I think that if this is the case then I would be sure to come into contact with some spiritual beings in other worlds because this would have some sort of catalyst affect ?
Hi Nicole,
We’re very realistic, as scientists. You have what you have, you see what you see, and you don’t have anything else. In the 5 senses one is born with, these trees, cars, people, planets is all there is. The fact that there’s a spiritual reality, just as real and even more so, that we can’t see is because the spiritual Screen over the desire doesn’t develop naturally as does the screen in, say, your eyes (retina), without which you’d lose most of your perception of this world as well. The spiritual Screen, nature doesn’t build for you without explicit requests from the person, in specific ways. With this screen you’ll discover everything that Kabbalists wrote about: Garden of Eden, etc.
Hi Aleta,
It’s a movement that started with the Baal Shem Tov, who was a great Kabbalist. He had circles, so his inner circle were Kabbalists. The outer circles, who were not capable of inner work, just kept traditions. In the inner circle too, the leadership started passing down to the sons of prior leaders, instead of to one who was in spirituality. Since spirituality doesn’t pass from parent to child in the blood and so on, you ended up with leaders who were not in spirituality, and eventually just a movement that kept that traditions only, like Baal Shem Tov’s external circle of followers.
I was hoping that Kabbalah could help me understand the horror of 50,000 people including women and children being killed in Gaza, of one million Ukrainians and Russians killed in Ukraine and Russia, one million who died in Irak when we invaded the country under false pretenses, or the members of minorities being assassinated and women being bullied in Syria as we speak.
My question is what is the justification for that happening. As a Christian I can’t answer that question satisfactorily and therefore I cannot respond to this horror.
As a student of Kabbalah, will I be able to answer that question and adopt the response that makes sense from the perspective of receiving in order to bestow, or are dead bodies among rubbles not a topic that has any relevance to Kabbalah?
A Kabbalist can answer himself, but you won’t receive a satisfactory answer for why it’s allowed to happen. You have billions of egoists doing what seems good to them, and no matter how it looks, each and everyone justifies himself. We’re having a dream that it’s all happening, because this dream develops us. Through it we realize what we’re really made of. If we really realized it, none would be able to keep doing what they’re doing. Until then, one maims and murders while managing to tell himself that he does good. It’s really to that extent. And there is nothing that can be done – not education, change in government. You can do it, but it will only exchange one evil for another. Because – again – this dream we’re in has a different purpose from such reforms, for each one to reach the revelation of his own evil: that is, the extent to which (an unlimited extent) he uses his Will to Receive, not only not in favor of others, but to serve himself, and even if it costs others greatly and benefits me to a minuscule extent. For them to stop doing this, but still remain the same inside, that is to not yet realize that they are evil, is not an acceptable outcome for the Creator. Usually, we just want them to stop doing it. The Creator disagrees with such coercion. Rather, each has to recognize deeply what’s in him, that he’s just like all those evildoers, deep down, in the part of his nature that still remains concealed from him. And all this, he needs to correct, through the Reforming Light in the wisdom of Kabbalah. He needs this Light both to realize that he needs correction, and then to make the correction, in that order. All those you speak of still think, “I’m great. It’s everyone else but me…” You see this is a few steps of concealment away from even beginning the correction.
Can you explain how the suffering we thought we had before was not really suffering, but that, we only start to suffer when we study Kabbalah?
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